List of banned books

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 Bible, the Qur'an, 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 Anarchist Cookbook, E for Ecstasy, and Hit Man.

A-B

• 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
• All I Need Is Love by Klaus Kinski
• 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
• The Banditti of the Plains by A. S. Mercer
• 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
• Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter (BBC television version banned by the BBC)
• Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard

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
• The Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis
• 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
• The Decameron by Boccaccio
• Deenie by Judy Blume
• Did Six Million Really Die? by Ernst Zündel
• Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
• The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
• Dubliners by James Joyce

E-G

• Earth's Children (series) by Jean M. Auel
• E for Ecstasy by Nicholas Saunders
• The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
• Fade by Robert Cormier
• Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
• The Family by Ed Sanders
• 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
• Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
• G.B. Jones edited by Steve LaFreniere
• 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

H-L

• 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 Lesléa Newman
• 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
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
• The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
• It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
• 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
• Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
• Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
• Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
• Kiki's Memoirs by Alice Prim (Kiki de Montparnasse
• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
• Killing Mr. Griffin 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
• Lysistrata by Aristophanes

M-R

• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Magnum Crimen by Viktor Novak
• The Making of a Godol by Nathan Kamenetsky
• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
• The Monk by Matthew Lewis
• Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
• 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
• My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
• My Secret Life by 'Walter'
• Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
• The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
• On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
• One of the Guys by Robert Clark Young
• Ordinary People by Judith Guest
• Our Friend The King by Gilles Perrault
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• Pernkopf's Anatomy by Eduard Pernkopf
• The Pigman by Paul Zindel
• Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
• Private Parts by Howard Stern
• The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal
• by Michael Anthony Sells
• The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
• 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
• Sex by Madonna
• Sex Education by Jenny Davis
• by Christine McCafferty and Peter Hammond
• 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
• The Spanish Labyrinth by Gerald Brenan
• Spycatcher by Peter Wright
• The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
• The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard
• Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
• Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
• Teleny, sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde
• The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney
• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père
• Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
• Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
• 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
• by Lynda Madaras
• by Lynda Madaras
• Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
• Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
• The Witches by Roald Dahl
• by Nancy Friday
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
• Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca

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. 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. 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. 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. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where's Waldo? by Martin Handford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

Banned Books Week

During the last 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 books which have been banned or challenged.

See also

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

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/