Banned books I have read

This is another “I have no post prepared for today” posts. This is a list of banned books that I stole from Literary Feline. I have only a little idea of why some of these books were banned, or challenged and by no means do I believe this list is complete, but here it is.

I’ve bolded the ones I’ve actually read the whole way through (only 48? I’m disappointed in myself) - and I’m working on the rest.

Edited because ordered lists apparently stop at number nine in WordPress. There are 110 books listed here – sorry about the stupid bullet points.

• The Bible
• Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes
• The Koran
• Arabian Nights
• Tom Sawyer – Mark Twain
• Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
• Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
• Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Leaves of Grass – Walt Whitman
• Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Diary of a Young Girl – Anne Frank
• Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
• Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
• Dracula – Bram Stoker
• Autobiography – Benjamin Franklin
• Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
• Essays – Michel de Montaigne
• Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
• History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Edward Gibbon
• Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
• Origin of Species – Charles Darwin
• Ulysses – James Joyce
• Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio
• Animal Farm – George Orwell
• Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
• Candide – Voltaire
• To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
• Analects – Confucius
• Dubliners – James Joyce
• Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
• Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
• Red and the Black – Stendhal
• Capital – Karl Marx
• Flowers of Evil – Charles Baudelaire
• Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence
• Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
• Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
• Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
• Jungle – Upton Sinclair
• All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
• Communist Manifesto – Karl Marx
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding
• Diary – Samuel Pepys
• Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
• Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
• Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
• Critique of Pure Reason – Immanuel Kant
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
• Praise of Folly – Desiderius Erasmus
• Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
• Autobiography of Malcolm X – Malcolm X
• Color Purple – Alice Walker
• Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger
• Essay Concerning Human Understanding – John Locke
• The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
• Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• East of Eden – John Steinbeck
• Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
• Confessions – Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Gargantua and Pantagruel – François Rabelais
• Leviathan – Thomas Hobbes
• The Talmud
• Social Contract – Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Bridge to Terabithia – Katherine Paterson
• Women in Love – D. H. Lawrence
• American Tragedy – Theodore Dreiser
• Mein Kampf – Adolf Hitler
• A Separate Peace – John Knowles
• Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
• Red Pony – John Steinbeck
• Popol Vuh
• Affluent Society – John Kenneth Galbraith
• Satyricon – Petronius
• James and the Giant Peach – Roald Dahl
• Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
• Black Boy – Richard Wright
• Spirit of the Laws – Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
• Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut
• Julie of the Wolves – Jean Craighead George
• Metaphysics – Aristotle
• Little House on the Prairie – Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Institutes of the Christian Religion – Jean Calvin
• Steppenwolf – Hermann Hesse
• Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
• Sanctuary – William Faulkner
• As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner
• Black Like Me – John Howard Griffin
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble – William Steig
• Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• General Introduction to Psychoanalysis – Sigmund Freud
• Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee – Dee Alexander Brown
• Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
• Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman – Ernest J. Gaines
• Émile – Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Nana – Émile Zola
• Chocolate War – Robert Cormier
• Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
• Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert A. Heinlein
• Day No Pigs Would Die – Robert Peck
• Ox-Bow Incident – Walter Van Tilburg Clark
• Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes