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 Torah, Bible and the Qur'an have all been subjected to censorship and have been banned in various cities and countries. Over the years many books based on the scriptures have also been banned, such as The Kingdom of God is Within You, which was banned in Russia for being anti-establishment.

Books that deal with criminal matter have also been subjected to censorship. Small-press titles that have become infamous by being banned include The Anarchist Cookbook, E for Ecstasy, and Hit Man.

In the four-volume series Banned Books published by FactsOnFile in 1998, the volumes were divided by grounds for banning: political, religious, sexual and social. The first three are often cited together as taboo in polite conversation.

Notably, fine children's books that deal with death or other teenage angst or various crimes, often find themselves banned, perhaps because of parental worries about teenage suicide or copycat crimes.

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Contents

  • 1 A-B
  • 2 C-D
  • 3 E-G
  • 4 H-L
  • 5 M-R
  • 6 S-Z
  • 7 American Library Association List
  • 8 Banned Books Week
  • 9 See also
  • 10 External links

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 ISBN 0689816723
  • All I Need Is Love by Klaus Kinski
  • Always Running by Luis Rodriguez ISBN 0671882317
  • American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  • America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction by Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show (banned for a very brief period of time in one library system in Mississippi)
  • The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
  • Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • 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 ISBN 0763626953
  • Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole ISBN 0688069282
  • Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher ISBN 0060507837
  • The Banditti of the Plains by A. S. Mercer
  • The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
  • 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
  • Boys of Swithins Hall by Chris Kent
  • 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 ISBN 0440412862

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
  • A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  • 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 ISBN 0064405710
  • Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
  • Cujo by Stephen King
  • Cunt by Stewart Home
  • Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  • Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite ISBN 1555831184
  • The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys by Chris Fuhrman
  • A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
  • The Dead Zone by Stephen King
  • Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
  • The Decameron by Boccaccio
  • Deenie by Judy Blume
  • Delta of Venus by Anaïs Nin
  • Did Six Million Really Die? by Ernst Zündel
  • Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
  • The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene ISBN 0553074377
  • Dubliners by James Joyce

E-G

  • Earth's Children (series) by Jean M. Auel
  • E for Ecstasy by Nicholas Saunders
  • Encyclopédie, edited by Jean le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot
  • Essays by Michel de Montaigne
  • The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
  • Fade by Robert Cormier
  • Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  • Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
  • The Family by Ed Sanders
  • Family Limitation (a pamphlet) by Margaret Sanger
  • Family Secrets by Norma Klein ISBN 0449701956
  • Fanny Hill by John Cleland
  • Final Exit by Derek Humphry ISBN 0385336535
  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  • Flowers in the Attic by Virginia C. Andrews
  • Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream by Lerone Bennett, Jr.
  • Forever by Judy Blume
  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
  • Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
  • The Fuck-Up by Arthur Nersesian
  • G.B. Jones edited by Steve LaFreniere
  • Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis
  • The Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison
  • Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
  • The Goats by Brock Cole ISBN 0374425752
  • 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 (Finland, 1986)
  • 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
  • Hit Man manual by Rex Feral
  • 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 ISBN 0440445450
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  • In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  • The Investigaor by Reuben Ship (radio play}
  • The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
  • It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris ISBN 1564021599
  • 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
  • The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort
  • Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
  • Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
  • Juliette by the Marquis de Sade
  • Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier ISBN 0440443237
  • Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
  • Kama Sutra
  • Kiki's Memoirs by Alice Prin (Kiki de Montparnasse)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
  • The Kingdom of God is Within You by Leo Tolstoy
  • 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
  • Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
  • A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Long Hard Road Out Of Hell by Marilyn Manson
  • The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  • Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  • Lysistrata by Aristophanes

M-R

  • Macbeth by William Shakespeare
  • Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
  • Magnum Crimen by Viktor Novak See Jasenovac concentration camp
  • Marks of Identity by Juan Goytisolo
  • The Making of a Godol by Nathan Kamenetsky (Mesorah, 2003) (scope of ban is among ultra-Orthodox rabbis)
  • Maurice by E.M. Forster
  • Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
  • The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
  • Les Meditations Metaphysiques by Rene Descartes
  • Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
  • The Monk by Matthew Lewis
  • Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole ISBN 0811813193
  • 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 ISBN 059042792X
  • 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 ISBN 0060012730
  • The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  • Oil! by Upton Sinclair
  • On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer ISBN 0440466334
  • One of the Guys by Robert Clark Young
  • The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade
  • Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano
  • Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
  • The Other Glass Teat by Harlan Ellison
  • 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 ISBN 0683068547
  • Philosophy in the Bedroom by the Marquis de Sade
  • The Pigman by Paul Zindel
  • The 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 ISBN 1883991269
  • The Rainbow series by Alex Sanchez
  • The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
  • The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
  • 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_ScaryStories
  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles
  • Sex by Madonna
  • Sex Education by Jenny Davis ISBN 0531057569
  • Sex for One: The Joy of Self-Loving by Betty Dodson
  • Sexual Revolution in South Africa: The Pink Agenda: The Ruin of the Family by Christine McCafferty and Peter Hammond ISBN 0958398348
  • 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
  • Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
  • The Spanish Labyrinth by Gerald Brenan ISBN 0521398274
  • Spycatcher by Peter Wright
  • Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman
  • Stoner & Spaz by Ron Koertge ISBN 0763616087
  • The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
  • The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard
  • Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green ISBN 0803783213
  • Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
  • Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
  • Teenage Lust by Larry Clark
  • Teleny, sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde
  • The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney
  • Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
  • Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
  • Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  • Tulsa by Larry Clark
  • Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
  • Ulysses by James Joyce
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  • View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts ISBN 0689717849
  • 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 ISBN 1557044430
  • What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras ISBN 1557044449
  • What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
  • Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
  • Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
  • The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
  • 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
  • Youth in Revolt by C.D. Payne

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.

  1. Scary Stories (series) by Alvin Schwartz
  2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
  3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  7. Harry Potter (series) by J.K. Rowling
  8. Forever by Judy Blume
  9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  10. Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
  12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
  13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
  14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
  15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
  16. Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
  17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
  18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  19. Sex by Madonna
  20. Earth’s Children (series) by Jean M. Auel
  21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
  22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
  23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
  24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
  25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
  26. The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard
  27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
  28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
  29. Anastasia Krupnik (series) by Lois Lowry
  30. The Goats by Brock Cole
  31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
  32. Blubber by Judy Blume
  33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
  34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
  35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
  36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
  37. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
  38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
  39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
  40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
  41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
  44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
  45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
  46. Deenie by Judy Blume
  47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
  49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
  50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
  51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
  52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice
  54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
  55. Cujo by Stephen King
  56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
  58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
  59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
  60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
  61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
  62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
  64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
  65. Fade by Robert Cormier
  66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
  67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
  68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
  69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  71. Native Son by Richard Wright
  72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
  73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
  74. Jack by A.M. Homes
  75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
  76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
  77. Carrie by Stephen King
  78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
  79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
  80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
  81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
  82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
  83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
  84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
  86. Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith
  87. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
  88. Private Parts by Howard Stern
  89. Where's Waldo? by Martin Handford
  90. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
  91. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
  92. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
  93. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
  94. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
  95. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
  96. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
  97. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
  98. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
  99. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  100. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
  101. 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. 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

  • Book burning
  • Censorship
  • The Roman Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum
  • International Freedom of Expression Exchange

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/
  • Banned Books: A Pathfinderde:Liste verbotener oder indizierter Medien

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