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 "
Each year, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and
from classrooms."  Below are the top classic titles banned or challenged.  For a more complete list, click here.  Source: American Library Association

 

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  The Great Gatsby
 
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  Catch-22
 
by Joseph Heller
  One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
  Nest
by Ken Kesey
 

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  The Catcher in the Rye
  
by J.D. Salinger
  Brave New World
 
by Aldous Huxley
  Slaughterhouse-Five
 
by Kurt Vonnegut

 
  The Grapes of Wrath
  
by John Steinbeck
  Animal Farm
  by George Orwell
  For Whom the Bell Tolls
 
by Ernest Hemingway
 
  To Kill a Mockingbird
  
by Harper Lee
  The Sun Also Rises
  by Ernest Hemingway
  The Call of the Wild
  by Jack London
 

 

 
  The Color Purple
 
by Alice Walker
  As I Lay Dying
  by William Faulkner
 
  Go Tell It on the Mountain
 
by James Baldwin

 
  Ulysses
  by James Joyce
 
 
A Farewell to Arms
  by Ernest Hemingway
  All the King's Men
  by Robert Penn Warren
 

  Beloved
 
by Toni Morrison
 
 
Their Eyes Were Watching God
  by Zora Neale Hurston
  The Lord of the Rings
  by J. R. R. Tolkien
 


 


  The Lord of the Flies
 
by William Golding
  Invisible Man
 
by Ralph Ellison
 
  The Jungle
  by Upton Sinclair


 

 
  1984
 
by George Orwell
 
 
Song of Solomon
 
by Toni Morrison
  Lady Chatterley's Lover
  by D. H. Lawrence

 
Lolita
 
by Vladmir Nabokov
  Gone with the Wind
 
by Margaret Mitchell
  A Clockwork Orange
  by Anthony Burgess

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Of Mice and Men
  by John Steinbeck

 
 Native Son
 
by Richard Wright
  The Awakening
  by Kate Chopin
 

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U
pdated: October 19, 2011

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