List of banned books
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Many societies have banned certain books. This is a partial list of books which have been banned by some organization at some place and time.
Various scriptures have been banned (and sometimes burned) at several points in history. The Bible, the Qur'an, and the Torah have all been subjected to censorship and have been banned in various cities and countries.
Books that deal with criminal matter have also been subjected to censorship. Small-press titles that have become infamous due to their being banned include The Anarchist Cookbook, E for Ecstasy, and Hit Man.Contents |
A-B
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
- The Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- All I Need Is Love by Klaus Kinski
- Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
- Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
- Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
- The Arabian Nights
- Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
- Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
- Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
- Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
- The Banditti of the Plains by A. S. Mercer
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
- Blubber by Judy Blume
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
- Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter (BBC television version banned by the BBC)
- Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
C-D
- Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce
- Candide by Voltaire
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Carrie by Stephen King
- The Case for India by Will Durant
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
- The Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
- Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
- Cujo by Stephen King
- Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
- Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
- A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
- The Dead Zone by Stephen King
- The Decameron by Boccaccio
- Deenie by Judy Blume
- Did Six Million Really Die? by Ernst Zündel
- Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
- The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
- Dubliners by James Joyce
E-G
- Earth's Children (series) by Jean M. Auel
- E for Ecstasy by Nicholas Saunders
- The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
- Fade by Robert Cormier
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- The Family by Ed Sanders
- Family Limitation by Margaret Sanger
- Family Secrets by Norma Klein
- Fanny Hill by John Cleland
- Final Exit by Derek Humphry
- Flowers in the Attic by Virginia C. Andrews
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Forever by Judy Blume
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
- G.B. Jones edited by Steve LaFreniere
- Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- The Goats by Brock Cole
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- Gruppa Finlandija by Pentti Syrjä
- Guess What? by Mem Fox
H-L
- Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Harmful to Minors by Judith Levine
- The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman
- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
- Howl by Allen Ginsberg
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
- It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
- Jack by A.M. Homes
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso
- Jenny lives with Eric and Martin by Susanne Bösche
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
- Kiki's Memoirs by Alice Prim (Kiki de Montparnasse
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
- King Lear by William Shakespeare
- The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
- Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
- Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
- Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
- A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Lysistrata by Aristophanes
M-R
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Magnum Crimen by Viktor Novak
- Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo
- The Making of a Godol by Nathan Kamenetsky
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- The Monk by Matthew Lewis
- Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrović Njegoš
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
- My Secret Life by 'Walter'
- The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS by Michael Fumento
- Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
- The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- One of the Guys by Robert Clark Young
- Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- Our Friend The King by Gilles Perrault
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- Pernkopf's Anatomy by Eduard Pernkopf
- Philosophy in the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
- The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
- Private Parts by Howard Stern
- The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal
- The Qu'ran: The Early Revelations by Michael Anthony Sells
- The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
- Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
S-Z
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
- Sex by Madonna
- Sex Education by Jenny Davis
- Sexual Revolution in South Africa: The Pink Agenda: The Ruin of the Family by Christine McCafferty and Peter Hammond
- Show Me! by Will McBride
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure
- Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Spanish Labyrinth by Gerald Brenan
- Spycatcher by Peter Wright
- Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
- The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
- The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
- Teleny, sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde
- The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney
- The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père
- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
- Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
- Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
- Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
- View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
- We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
- What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
- What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
- Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
- Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
- Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
American Library Association List
The American Library Association periodically releases a list of the most challenged books in libraries in the United States, of the challenges reported to the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom. The following list details the 100 most challenged books the years 1990-2000, during which some 6,300 challenges were reported to the ALA.
- Scary Stories (series) by Alvin Schwartz
- Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
- Forever by Judy Blume
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
- Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
- Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
- A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Sex by Madonna
- Earth’s Children (series) by Jean M. Auel
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
- Anastasia Krupnik (series) by Lois Lowry
- The Goats by Brock Cole
- Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
- Blubber by Judy Blume
- Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
- Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
- We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
- Final Exit by Derek Humphry
- The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
- Deenie by Judy Blume
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
- The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
- Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
- A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice
- Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
- Cujo by Stephen King
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
- Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
- Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
- Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
- Fade by Robert Cormier
- Guess What? by Mem Fox
- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
- Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
- Jack by A.M. Homes
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
- Family Secrets by Norma Klein
- Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
- The Dead Zone by Stephen King
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
- Private Parts by Howard Stern
- Where's Waldo? by Martin Handford
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
- Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
- Sex Education by Jenny Davis
- The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
- Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
- View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
- Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Banned Books Week
During the last week of September of each year, the ALA celebrates Banned Books Week (http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm). Established in 1982, Banned Books Week celebrates freedom of the press and encourages people to read books which have been banned or challenged.
See also
External links
- http://www.beaconforfreedom.org/
- http://www.ala.org/bbooks/
- http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbookslinks.html
- http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bannedbooksweek.htm
- http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
- http://libraries.luc.edu/about/exhibits/banned/index.shtml
- http://www.forbiddenlibrary.com/
- http://solonor.com/bannedbooks/de:Liste verbotener oder indizierter (Print-) Medien