List of our books which have been challenged or banned compiled by Meghan Lenahan.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galilei Galileo
A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher by M.C. Escher
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
King Lear by William Shakespeare
Le Morte D’Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Lords of Discipline by Pat Conroy
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
On the Origin of Species by Charles B. Darwin
Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. Jim Miller, ed.
Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Welcome to the Monkey by House. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings by D.T. Suzuki.
* Props to Lauren for attempting to put the list together.
