List of banned books
Many societies have banned certain books. This is a partial list of books which have been banned by some organisation at some place and time.
- 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
- 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
- love 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
- Call of the Wild by Jack London
- Can Such Things Be by Ambrose Bierce
- Candide by Voltaire
- Canterbury Tales\ by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Carrie by Stephen King
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- 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
- Decameron by Boccaccio
- Deenie by Judy Blume
- Did Six Million Really Die by Ernst Zündel
- The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
- Earth's Children (series) by Jean M. Auel
- The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
- Fade by Robert Cormier
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- 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
- 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
- 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 Leslea Newman
- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
- 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
- It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
- Jack by A.M. Homes
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
- Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
- Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
- 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
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
- Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
- 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
- The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Private Parts by Howard Stern
- The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal
- The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
- Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
- Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
- Sex by Madonna
- Sex Education by Jenny Davis
- Sexual Revolution in South Africa: The Pink Agenda: The Ruin of the Family by Christine McCafferty and Peter Hammond
- Silas Marner by George Eliot
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
- Teleny, sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde
- The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney
- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
- 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
- What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
- What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
- Where Did I Come From by Peter Mayle
- Where's Waldo by Martin Hanford
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
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 Anarchists' Cookbook, E for Ecstasy, and Hit Man.
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