Rebecca at Love at First Book and I have decided to tackle the “Banned Book” list from the American Library Association. Many of these I have already read and, therefore, will not be reviewing. But any banned book that I read from here on out will be linked to its review! Enjoy!
The List
- Baldwin, James – Go Tell it on the Mountain
- Burgess, Anthony – A Clockwork Orange
- Burroughs, William S. – Naked Lunch
- Capote, Truman – In Cold Blood
- Chopin, Kate – The Awakening
- Dreiser, Theodore – An American Tragedy
- Ellison, Ralph – Invisible Man
- Faulkner, William – As I Lay Dying
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott – The Great Gatsby
- Golding, William – The Lord of the Flies
- Heller, Joseph – Catch-22
- Hemingway, Ernest – A Farewell to Arms
- Hemingway, Ernest – For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Hemingway, Ernest – The Sun Also Rises
- Hurston, Zora Neale – Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Huxley, Aldous – Brave New World
- Joyce, James – Ulysses
- Kesey, Ken – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Knowles, John – A Separate Peace
- Lawrence, D.H. – Lady Chatterley’s Lover
- Lawrence, D.H. – Sons and Lovers
- Lawrence, D.H. – Women in Love
- Lee, Harper – To Kill a Mockingbird
- London, Jack – The Call of the Wild
- Mailer, Norman – The Naked and the Dead
- Miller, Henry – Tropic of Cancer
- Mitchell, Margaret – Gone With the Wind
- Morrison, Toni – Beloved
- Morrison, Toni – Song of Solomon
- Nabokov, Vladmir – Lolita
- Orwell, George – 1984
- Orwell, George – Animal Farm
- Rushdie, Salman – The Satanic Verses
- Salinger, J.D. – The Catcher in the Rye
- Sinclair, Upton – The Jungle
- Steinbeck, John – Of Mice and Men
- Steinbeck, John – The Grapes of Wrath
- Styron, William – Sophie’s Choice
- Tolkien, J.R.R. – The Lord of the Rings
- Updike, John – Rabbit, Run
- Vonnegut, Kurt – Cat’s Cradle
- Vonnegut, Kurt – Slaughterhouse-Five
- Walker, Alice – The Color Purple
- Warren, Robert Penn – All the King’s Men
- Waugh, Evelyn – Brideshead Revisited
- Wright, Richard – Native Son