25 Frequently Challenged Books Considered Classic Literature
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
- A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The American Library Association lists more banned classics and the objections each book draws. More information here.
Download a PDF of this list here.
More information can be had at www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks. The Freedom to Read statement is worth a gander as well, and can be accessed at www.ala.org/intellectualfreedom.
