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Banned and Challenged Classics
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Animal Farm
by Orwell, George
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Animal Farm has been banned or challenged multiple times, especially in classrooms, for its 'political theories', because 'Orwell was a communist' and banned internationally because, 'it criticizes corrupt leaders who abuse political power', etc. (Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds)
| Call Number: PR6029 .R8 A63 |
Go Tell It on the Mountain
by Baldwin, James
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Challenged as required reading in the Hudson Falls, NY schools (1994) because the book has recurring themes of rape, masturbation, violence, and degrading treatment of women. (ALA.org) See Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds for more information.
| Call Number: PS3552.A45 G6 |
Clockwork Orange
by Burgess, Anthony
| Call Number: PR6052.U638 C5 |
Naked Lunch
by Burroughs, William S
| Call Number: S3552.U75 N3 |
In Cold Blood
by Capote, Truman
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Banned, but later reinstated after community protests at the Windsor Forest High School in Savannah, GA (2000). The controversy began in early 1999 when a parent complained about sex, violence, and profanity in the book that was part of an Advanced Placement English Class. (ALA.org)
| Call Number: HV6533.K3 C3 |
Awakening, The
by Chopin, Kate
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'Retained on the Northwestern Suburban High School District 214 reading list in Arlington Heights, IL along with eight other challenged titles in 2006. A board member, elected amid promises to bring her Christian beliefs into all board decision-making, raised the controversy based on excerpts from the books she'd found on the Internet.' (See ALA.org for more details.)
| Call Number: PS1294.C63 A61 |
American Tragedy
by Dreiser, Theodore
| Call Number: PS3507.R55 A7 |
Invisible Man
by Ellison, Ralph
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Removed from the high school English reading list in St. Francis, WI (1975).
Retained in the Yakima, WA schools (1994) after a five-month dispute over what advanced high school students should read in the classroom. Two parents raised concerns about profanity and images of violence and sexuality in the book and requested that it be removed from the reading list. (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3555.L625 I5 |
Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Challenged at the Baptist College in Charleston, SC (1987) because of "language and sexual references in the book. (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3511.I9 G7 |
As I Lay Dying
by Faulkner, William
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'Banned in the Graves County School District in Mayfield, KY (1986) because it contains "offensive and obscene passages referring to abortion and used God's name in vain." The decision was reversed a week later after intense pressure from the ACLU and considerable negative publicity.' (See ALA.org for more details.)
| Call Number: PS3511.A86 A85 |
Lord of the flies
by Golding, William
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"Critics at Owen (North Carolina) High School challenged the book in 1981 for being 'demoralizing' by implying that man is little more than an animal, and the appropriateness of the novel as a reading assignment was challenged at Marana (Arizona) High School in 1983." "The Toronto (Ontario, Canada) board of education ruled on June 23, 1988 that the novel is 'racist and recommended that it be removed from all schools,' after parents and members of the black community complained that it degraded blacks because the boys paint themselves and savagely hunt and kill both wild boars and later several of their group, while they refer to themselves as a 'tribe.'" "In 1992, the novel was challenged as indecent by protesters in the Waterloo, Iowa, schools. The challenge was based on perceived profanity, lurid passages, and statements viewed as being derogatory to minorities, women, and the disabled." (See Banned in the USA for more details.)
| Call Number: PR6013.O35 L6 |
Catch-22
by Heller, Joseph
| Call Number: PS3558 .E476 C3 |
Farewell to Arms
by Hemingway, Ernest
| Call Number: PS3515.E37 F3 |
For Whom the Bell Tolls
by Hemingway, Ernest
| Call Number: PS3515.E37 F6 |
Sun Also Rises
by Hemingway, Ernest
| Call Number: PS3515.E37 S8 |
Their Eyes Were Watching
by Hurston, Zora Neale
| Call Number: PS3515.U789 T5 |
Brave New World
by Huxley, Aldous
| Call Number: PR6015.U9 B65 |
Ulysses
by Joyce, James
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Burned in the U.S. (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada (1922), England (1923) and banned in England (1929). (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PR6019 .U9 U4 |
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Kesey, Ken
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Banned from the St. Anthony, ID Freemont High School classrooms (1978) and the instructor fired. The teacher sued. A decision in the case 'Fogarty v. Atchley' was never published. Challenged as part of the curriculum in an Aberdeen, WA High School honors English class (1986) because the book promotes "secular humanism." The school board voted to retain the title. Challenged at the Placentia-Yorba Linda, CA Unified School District (2000) after complaints by parents stated that teachers "can choose the best books, but they keep choosing this garbage over and over again." (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3561.E667 O5328 |
Separate Peace
by Knowles, John
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A Separate PeaceChallenged in Vernon-Verona-Sherill, NY School District (1980) as a "filthy, trashy sex novel."
Challenged at the Fannett-Metal High School in Shippensburg, PA (1985) because of its allegedly offensive language. Challenged at the McDowell County, NC schools (1996) because of "graphic language." (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3561 .N68 S4 |
Sons and Lovers
by Lawrence, D. H
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| Call Number: PR6023.A93 S6 |
Lady Chatterley's Lover
by Lawrence, D. H.
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Lady Chatterley's LoverBanned by U.S. Customs (1929).
Banned in Ireland (1932), Poland (1932), Australia (1959), Japan (1959), India (1959).
Banned in Canada (1960) until 1962.
Dissemination of Lawrences novel has been stopped in China (1987) because the book will corrupt the minds of young people and is also against the Chinese tradition.
| Call Number: PR6023.A93 L2 |
Women in Love
by Lawrence, D. H.
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Seized by John Summers of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice and declared obscene (1922). (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PR6023.A93 W63 |
To Kill a Mockingbird
by Lee, Harper
| Call Number: PS3562.E353 T65 2006 |
The Call of the Wild
by London, Jack
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Banned in Italy (1929), Yugoslavia (1929), and burned in Nazi bonfires (1933). (ALA.org)
| Call Number: YOUTH LONDON CALL 2007 |
Naked and the Dead
by Mailer, Norman
| Call Number: PS3525.A4152 N3 |
Tropic of Cancer
by Miller, Henry
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Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Millers masterpiece, was banned as obscene in [the United States] for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship standards, ushering in a new era of freedom and frankness in modern literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Millers famed mixture of memoir and fiction, which chronicles with unapologetic gusto the bawdy adventures of a young expatriate writer, his friends, and the characters they meet in Paris in the 1930s. (ProQuest eBooks)
| Call Number: PS3525.I5454 T7 |
Gone with the Wind
by Mitchell, Margaret
| Call Number: PS3525.I972 G686 |
Song of Solomon
by Morrison, Toni
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Challenged, but retained, in the Columbus, OH schools (1993). The complainant believed that the book contains language degrading to blacks, and is sexually explicit.
Removed from required reading lists and library shelves in the Richmond County, GA. School District (1994) after a parent complained that passages from the book are "filthy and inappropriate." (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 S66 |
Beloved
by Morrison, Toni.
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"Beloved has been challenged in school districts because of the violence that permeates the novel." See Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds for more details.
| Call Number: PS3563 .O8749 B4 |
Lolita
by Nabokov, Vladimir
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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 had been refused.
Challenged at the Marion-Levy Public Library System in Ocala, FL (2006). The Marion County commissioners voted to have the county attorney review the novel that addresses the themes of pedophilia and incest, to determine if it meets the state laws definition of unsuitable for minors.
| Call Number: PS3527 .A15 L618 |
1984
by Orwell, George
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"Many attempts have been made to rid school libraries of 1984 in the nearly 50 years since its publication. In his introduction to Celebrating Censored Books, Lee Burress identified the 30 most frequently challenged books ... 1984 ranked fifth." See Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds for more details. Challenged in the Jackson County, FL (1981) because Orwell's novel is "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter." (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PR6029.R8 N49 |
Satanic Verses
by Rushdie, Salman
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Banned in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Quatar, Indonesia, South Africa, and India because of its criticism of Islam. In Pakistan five people died in riots against the book. Another man died a day later in Kashmir. Challenged at the Wichita, KS Public Library (1989) because the book is "blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed."In 1991, in separate incidents, Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator, was stabbed to death and its Italian translator, Ettore Capriolo, was seriously wounded. In 1993 William Nygaard, its Norwegian publisher, was shot and seriously injured.
| Call Number: PR6068.U757 S28 |
Catcher in the Rye
by Salinger, J. D.
| Call Number: PS3537.A426 C3 2001 |
Jungle
by Sinclair, Upton
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Banned from public libraries in Yugoslavia (1929). Burned in the Nazi bonfires because of Sinclair's socialist views (1933).
Banned in East Germany (1956) as inimical to communism.
Banned in South Korea (1985). (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3537.I85 J85 |
Grapes of Wrath
by Steinbeck, John
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Burned by the East St. Louis, IL Public Library (1939) and barred from the Buffalo, NY Public Library (1939) on the grounds that "vulgar words" were used. Banned in Kansas City, MO (1939).
Banned in Kern County CA, the scene of Steinbeck's novel (1939).
Banned in Ireland (1953).Removed from two Anniston, Ala. high school libraries (1982), but later reinstated on a restrictive basis. (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3537 .T3234 G8 2006 |
Of Mice and Men
by Steinbeck, John
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Banned in Ireland (1953); Syracuse, IN (1974); Oil City, PA (I977); Grand Blanc, MI (1979); Continental, OH (1980) and other communities.
Challenged in Greenville, SC (1977) by the Fourth Province of the Knights of the Ku Klux KIan; Vernon Verona Sherill, NY School District (1980); St. David, AZ (1981) and Tell City, IN (1982) due to "profanity and using God's name in vain." Challenged at the Newton, IA High School (2007) because of concerns about profanity and the portrayal of Jesus Christ. Newton High School has required students to read the book since at least the early 1980s. In neighboring Des Moines, it is on the recommended reading list for ninth-grade English, and it is used for some special education students in the eleventh and twelfth grades.
Retained in the Olathe, KS ninth grade curriculum (2007) despite a parent calling the novel a 'worthless, profanity-riddled book' which is derogatory towards African Americans, women, and the developmentally disabled. (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3537.T3234 O2 |
Sophie's Choice
by Styron, William
| Call Number: PS3569.T9 S67 |
Lord of the Rings
by Tolkien, J. R.
| Call Number: PR6039.O32 L6 |
Rabbit, Run
by Updike, John
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Banned in Ireland in 1962 because the Irish Board of Censors found the work "obscene" and "indecent," objecting particularly to the author's handling of the characters' sexuality, the "explicit sex acts" and "promiscuity." The work was officially banned from sales in Ireland until the introduction of the revised Censorship Publications Bill in 1967.Removed from the required reading list for English class at the Medicine Bow, WY Junior High School (1986) because of sexual references and profanity in the book. (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3571.P4 R3 |
Cat's Cradle
by Vonnegut, Kurt
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'The Strongsville, Ohio School Board (1972) voted to withdraw this title from the school library; this action was overturned in 1976 by a U.S. District Court in Minarcini v. Strongsville City School District, 541 F. 2d 577 (6th Cir. 1976).' (See ALA.org and Literatures Suppressed on Political Grounds for more details.
| Call Number: PS3572.O5 C3 |
Slaughterhouse Five
by Vonnegut, Kurt
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Banned in Rochester, MI because the novel "contains and makes references to religious matters" and thus fell within the ban of the establishment clause. An appellate court upheld its usage in the school in Todd v Rochester Community Schools, 41 Mich. App. 320, 200 N. W 2d 90 (1972).
Banned in Levittown, NY (1975), North Jackson, OH (1979), and Lakeland, FL (1982) because of the "book's explicit sexual scenes, violence, and obscene language." Challenged in the Howell, MI High School (2007) because of the book's strong sexual content. In response to a request from the president of the Livingston Organization for Values in Education, or LOVE, the county's top law enforcement official reviewed the books to see whether laws against distribution of sexually explicit materials to minors had been broken. "After reading the books in question, it is clear that the explicit passages illustrated a larger literary, artistic or political message and were not included solely to appeal to the prurient interests of minors," the county prosecutor wrote. "Whether these materials are appropriate for minors is a decision to be made by the school board, but I find that they are not in violation of criminal laws." (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3572.O5 S6 |
Color Purple
by Walker, Alice
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The Color Purple has been challenged multiple times and occasionally removed from classrooms. The novel was first challenged in 1984, when parents of students in the Oakland (California) High School honors English class complained that the book was inappropriate reading because of its "sexual and social explicitness," especially its "troubling ideas about race relations ... and human sexuality." The book was removed from the classroom, pending review by the Oakland board of education. (see Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds for more info.)
| Call Number: PS3573.A425 C6 |
All the King's Men
by Warren, Robert Penn
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Challenged at the Dallas, TX Independent School District high school libraries (1974). (ALA.org)
| Call Number: PS3545.A748 A7 |
Brideshead Revisited
by Waugh, Evelyn
| Call Number: PR6045.A97 B7 |
Native Son
by Wright, Richard
| Call Number: PS3545 .R815 N25 |
