Banned Books Week 2014

September 21 - 27

Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be

considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.

The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bans. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society.

Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century

*Titles in bold are the ones I have read

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker6. Ulysses by James Joyce7. Beloved by Toni Morrison8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding9. 1984 by George Orwell10. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov11. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck12. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller13. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley14. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway15. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner16. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway17. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad18. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison20. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell22. Native Son by Richard Wright23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey24. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut25. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

26. The Call of the Wild by Jack London27. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin28. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren29. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair30. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence31. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess32. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote33. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie34. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence35. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut36. A Separate Peace by John Knowles37. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs38. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence39. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer40. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller41. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser42. Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Visit the web address below to find out the reasons why these books were challenged:http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics/reasons

For more informations, visit www.ala.org/bbooks/bannedbooksweek