cownamedfred's "50 Banned Books Everyone Should Read"

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As long as there have been books, there have been people opposed to what is said in some of those books. Authors who challenge the accepted norms in their literature are often the target of angry people who do not understand or appreciate their literature. The following books are excellent examples of great literature that has become banned or challenged in an attempt to shield the public from what some see as inappropriate.

Source: onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/05/20/50-banned-books-that-everyone-should-read/

  1. 1.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger
  2. 2.
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Puffin Classics)
    by Mark Twain
  3. 3.
    ?
    Forever by Judy Blume

  4. 4.
    Golden Compass
    by Philip Pullman
  6. 6.
    Harry Potter Paperback Box Set (Books 1-7)
    by J. K. Rowling
  8. 8.
    James and the Giant Peach
    by Roald Dahl
  9. 9.
    And Tango Makes Three
    by Justin Richardson
  10. 10.
    A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)
    by Madeleine L'Engle
  11. 11.
    The Chocolate War
    by Robert Cormier
  12. 12.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry
  13. 13.
    The Satanic Verses
    by Salman Rushdie
  14. 14.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John IRVING
  15. 15.
    The Grapes of Wrath
    by John Steinbeck
  16. 16.
    Uncle Tom's Cabin
    by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  17. 17.
    The Lorax (Classic Seuss)
    by Dr. Seuss
  18. 18.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
  19. 19.
  20. 20.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  21. 21.
    ?
    Gulliver’s Travels
    by Jonathan Swift
  22. 22.
    Candide
    by Francois Marie Arouet) Voltaire
  23. 23.
    ?
  24. 24.
    Tropic of Cancer
    by Henry Miller
  25. 25.
    Fanny Hill
    by John Cleland
  26. 26.
    Leaves of Grass (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Walt Whitman
  27. 27.
    The Great Gatsby (Penguin Popular Classics)
    by F.Scott Fitzgerald
  28. 28.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley
  29. 29.
    The Kite Runner Illustrated Edition
    by Khaled Hosseini
  30. 30.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes
  31. 31.
    The Awakening
    by Kate Chopin
  32. 32.
    ?
    Madame Bovery
    by Flaubert
  34. 34.
    Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank
  35. 35.
    Lolita (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
    by Vladimir Nabokov
  36. 36.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee
  37. 37.
    Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck Centennial Edition)
    by John Steinbeck
  38. 38.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker
  39. 39.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou
  40. 40.
    Little Women (Signet Classics)
    by Louisa May Alcott
  41. 41.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller
  42. 42.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury
  43. 43.
    Native Son (Perennial Classics)
    by Richard Wright
  44. 44.
    Beloved (Everyman's Library)
    by Toni Morrison
  45. 45.
    As I Lay Dying
    by William Faulkner
  46. 46.
    One flew over the Cuckoo's Nest
    by Ken Kesey
  47. 47.
  48. 48.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote
  49. 49.
    Slaughter-House Five
    by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  50. 50.
    East of Eden (Oprah's Book Club)
    by John Steinbeck
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Created by cownamedfred on Sep 01, 2009.
 

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