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List of banned books

Redirected from Banned books Many societies have banned certain books. This is a partial list of books which have been banned by some organisation at some place and time.

• The 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[?]
• 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[?]
• 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[?]
• Bumps in the Night[?] by Harry Allard[?]
• Call of the Wild[?] by Jack London
• Can Such Things Be?[?] by Ambrose Bierce
• Candide by Voltaire
• Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Carrie by Stephen King
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Chocolate War[?] by Robert Cormier[?]
• Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• 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
• Decameron by Boccaccio
• Deenie[?] by Judy Blume
• Did Six Million Really Die?[?] by Ernst Zündel
• The Drowning of Stephen Jones[?] by Bette Greene[?]
• Earth's Children[?] (series) by Jean M. Auel[?]
• The Face on the Milk Carton[?] by Caroline Cooney[?]
• Fade[?] by Robert Cormier[?]
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers[?]
• Family Limitation[?] by Margaret Sanger
• Family Secrets[?] by Norma Klein[?]
• Fanny Hill by John Cleland
• Final Exit[?] by Derek Humphry[?]
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes[?]
• Forever[?] by Judy Blume
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• 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[?]
• Guess What?[?] by Mem Fox[?]
• Halloween ABC[?] by Eve Merriam[?]
• Hamlet by William Shakespeare
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
• The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
• The Headless Cupid[?] by Zilpha Keatley Snyder[?]
• Heather Has Two Mommies[?] by Leslea Newman[?]
• The House of Spirits[?] by Isabel Allende
• 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[?]
• It's Perfectly Normal[?] by Robie Harris[?]
• Jack[?] by A.M. Homes[?]
• James and the Giant Peach[?] by Roald Dahl
• Jerusalem Delivered[?] by Tasso[?]
• Julie of the Wolves[?] by Jean Craighead George[?]
• Jump Ship to Freedom[?] by James Lincoln Collier[?] and Christopher Collier[?]
• Kaffir Boy[?] by Mark Mathabane[?]
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Killing Mr. Duncan[?] 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
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
• Moll Flanders[?] by Daniel Defoe
• Mommy Laid An Egg[?] by Babette Cole[?]
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• My Brother Sam is Dead[?] by James Lincoln Collier[?] and Christopher Collier[?]
• The Naked Lunch[?] by William S. Burroughs
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• The New Joy of Gay Sex[?] by Charles Silverstein[?]
• On My Honor[?] by Marion Dane Bauer[?]
• Ordinary People by Judith Guest[?]
• The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
• The Outsiders[?] by S.E. Hinton[?]
• The Pigman[?] by Paul Zindel[?]
• Pillars of the Earth[?] by Ken Follett
• Private Parts[?] by Howard Stern
• The Provincial Letters[?] by Blaise Pascal
• The Rights of Man[?] by Thomas Paine
• Running Loose[?] by Chris Crutcher[?]
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• 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[?]
• Silas Marner[?] by George Eliot
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• The Stupids[?] (series) by Harry Allard[?]
• Summer of My German Soldier[?] by Bette Green[?]
• Teleny[?], sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde
• The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney[?]
• Tiger Eyes[?] by Judy Blume
• 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[?]

Various religious texts[?] have been banned (and sometimes burned) at several points in history. The Bible, the Quran, and the Torah have all been subjected to censorship and have been banned in various cities and countries.

Books dealing with criminal matter have also been subjected to censorship. Small-press titles that have become infamous due to their being banned include the Anarchists' Cookbook[?], E for Ecstasy[?], and Hit Man[?].

See also:

• Book burning
• Censorship
• The Roman Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum

External links

• http://www.ala.org/bbooks/
• http://www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbookslinks.html
• http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html
• http://www.luc.edu/libraries/banned/
• http://www.fatchucks.com/z4.bb.html

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