The list of books banned by American schools and libraries includes many of the classics some of which are listed below. How do you feel about these titles being banned and the reasons why they were banned? Are any of your favorites on this list?
Too Political:
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 1928
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, 1929
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, 1940
Animal Farm by George Orwell, 1945
1984 by George Orwell, 1949
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 1957
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1969
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen, 1983
Socially Offensive:
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, 1791
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, 1884
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 1930
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, 1937
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 1947
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 1951
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 1953
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, 1961
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller, 1961
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, 1962
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 1966
Cujo by Stephen King, 1981
The Color Purple by Alice Walker, 1982
Ordinary People by Judith Guest, 1982
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley, 1991
Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007
(AARP Bulletin, Sept. 2010)
