Don't Ban Huckleberry Finn!!!!

F. Scott Fitzgerald's the Great Gatsby (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

Burned by the East St. Louis, III. Public Library more...0 points

Burned by the East St. Louis, III. Public Library (1939) and barred from the Buffalo, N.Y Public Library (1939) on the grounds that "vulgar words" were used. Banned in Kansas City, Mo. (1939); Kern County Calif, the scene of Steinbeck's novel, (1939); Ireland ( 1953); Kanawha, Iowa High School classes (1980); and Morris, Manitoba (1982). On Feb. 21, 1973, eleven Turkish book publishers went on trial before an Istanbul martial law tribunal on charges of publishing, possessing and selling books in...0 points

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Challenged at the Oxford Hills High School in Pari more...0 points

Challenged at the Oxford Hills High School in Paris, Maine (1996). A parent objected to the use of the 'F' word:' Challenged, but retained, at the Glynn Academy High School in Brunswick, Ga. (1997). A student objected to the novel's profanity and sexual references. Removed because of profanity and sexual situations from the required reading curriculum of the Marysville, Calif Joint Unified School District (1997). The school superintendent removed it to get it "out of the way so that we didn't ha...0 points

The Grapes of Wrath (Penguin Classics) by John Steinbeck

Burned by the East St. Louis, III. Public Library more...0 points

Burned by the East St. Louis, III. Public Library (1939) and barred from the Buffalo, N.Y Public Library (1939) on the grounds that "vulgar words" were used. Banned in Kansas City, Mo. (1939); Kern County Calif, the scene of Steinbeck's novel, (1939); Ireland ( 1953); Kanawha, Iowa High School classes (1980); and Morris, Manitoba (1982). On Feb. 21, 1973, eleven Turkish book publishers went on trial before an Istanbul martial law tribunal on charges of publishing, possessing and selling books in...0 points

To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by Harper Lee

Challenged at the Park Hill, Mo. Junior High Schoo more...0 points

Challenged at the Park Hill, Mo. Junior High School (1985) because the novel "contains profanity and racial slurs:" Retained on a supplemental eighth grade reading list in the Casa Grande, Ariz. Elementary School District (1985), despite the protests by black parents and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who charged the book was unfit for junior high use. Challenged at the Santa Cruz, Calif. Schools (1995) because of its racial themes. Removed from the Southwood High...0 points

Color Purple by Alice Walker

Challenged at the St. Johns County Schools in St. more...0 points

Challenged at the St. Johns County Schools in St. Augustine, Fla. (1995). Retained on the Round Rock, Tex. Independent High School reading list (1996) after a challenge that the book was too violent. Challenged, but retained, as part of the reading list for Advanced Placement English classes at Northwest High Schools in High Point, N.C. (1996). The book was challenged because it is "sexually graphic and violent." Removed from the Jackson County, W. Va. school libraries (1997) along with sixteen...0 points

Ulysses (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce

Burned in the U.S. (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada more...0 points

Burned in the U.S. (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada (1922), England (1923) and banned in England (1929). Source: 3, p. 66; 5, pp. 328-30; 10, Vol. III, pp. 411-12; 557-58, 645.0 points

Beloved (Everyman's Library) by Toni Morrison

Challenged at the St. Johns County Schools in St. more...0 points

Challenged at the St. Johns County Schools in St. Augustine, FL (1995). Retained on the Round Rock, Texas Independent High School reading list (1996) after a challenge that the book was too violent. Challenged by a member of the Madawaska, Maine School Committee (1997) because of the book's language. The 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning novel has been required reading for the advanced placement English class for six years. Challenged in the Sarasota County, Florida schools (1998) because of sexual ma...0 points

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Challenged at the Dallas, TX. Independent School D more...0 points

Challenged at the Dallas, TX. Independent School District high school libraries (1974); challenged at the Sully Buttes, S. Dak. High School (1981); challenged at the Owen, N.C. High School (1981) because the book is "demoralizing inasmuch as it implies that man is little more than an animal"; challenged at the Marana, Ariz. High School (1983) as an inappropriate reading assignment. Challenged at the Olney, Tex. Independent School District (1984) because of "excessive violence and bad language."...0 points

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

Challenged in the Jackson County, FL (1981) becaus more...0 points

Challenged in the Jackson County, FL (1981) because Orwell's novel is "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter." Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.0 points

The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text by William Faulkner

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The Annotated Lolita: Revised and Updated by Vladimir Nabokov, Alfred Appel Jr.

Banned as obscene in France (1956-1959), in Englan more...0 points

Banned as obscene in France (1956-1959), in England (1955-59), in Argentina (1959), and in New Zealand (1960). The South African Directorate of Publications announced on November 27, 1982, that Lolita has been taken off the banned list, eight years after a request for permission to market the novel in paperback has been refused.0 points

Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck

Challenged as required reading at the high school more...0 points

Challenged as required reading at the high school in Grandville, Mich. (2002) because the book "is full of racism, profanity, and foul language." Banned from the George County, Miss. schools (2002) because of profanity. Challenged in the Normal, Ill. Community High Schools (2003) because the books contains "racial slurs, profanity, violence, and does not represent traditional values." An alternative book, Steinbeck's The Pearl, was offered but rejected by the family challenging the novel. Sourc...0 points

Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Signet Classics) by James Joyce

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Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Banned in Ireland (1932). Removed from classroom i more...0 points

Banned in Ireland (1932). Removed from classroom in Miller, MO (1980), because it made promiscuous sex "look like fun" and challenged frequently throughout the U.S. Challenged as required reading at the Yukon, Oklahoma High School (1988) because of "the book's language and moral content." Challenged as required reading in the Corona-Norco, California Unified School District (1993) because it is "centered around negative activity." Specifically, parents objected that the characters' sexual behavi...0 points

Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Books of Wonder) by L. Frank Baum

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The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition by J.R.R. Tolkien

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One more...0 points

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins.From Sauron's fastness in...0 points

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Challenged for sexual explicitness, but retained o more...0 points

Challenged for sexual explicitness, but retained on the Stonewall Jackson High School's academically advanced reading list in Brentsville, VA (1997). A parent objected to the novel's language and sexual explicitness0 points

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

Banned from Anaheim, Calif. Union High School Dist more...0 points

Banned from Anaheim, Calif. Union High School District English classrooms (1978) according to the Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association. Challenged in Waukegan, Ill. School District (1984) because the novel uses the word "nigger." Source: 2004 Banned Books Resource Guide by Robert P. Doyle.0 points