Banned Books Anyone?

How Many Have You Read???

by Mark Twain

The classic tale of a young boy and a runaway slave, that was banned early-on because of its anti-slavery sentiments and later, by educators, because of its use of vernacular English.

American Library Association List of Top 100 Banned Books

Actually their website is three short, but The Top 97
Banned Books doesn't quite have the same Punch!

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger 

3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck


4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee


5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker


6. Ulysses, by James Joyce


7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison


8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding


9. 1984, by George Orwell

11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov


12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller


16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley


17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell


18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway


19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner


20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston


24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison


25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison


26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell


27. Native Son, by Richard Wright


28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey


29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut


30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence


49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess


50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence

66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut


67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs


74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh


75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer

84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller

88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser

97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike