Banned Books                                           Readalikes   l   Genre & Topic Lists   l   Bestsellers   l   Helpful Websites   l   Reviews     "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   ___________   The Great Gatsby   by F. Scott Fitzgerald   Catch-22   by Joseph Heller   One Flew Over the Cuckoo's   Nest by Ken Kesey  ___________     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 _________   Of Mice and Men   by John Steinbeck   Native Son   by Richard Wright   The Awakening   by Kate Chopin  _________

Updated: October 19, 2011

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