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Discussion about the most challenged books for those who want to read them.

Category: The Reading Life | Started February 2007

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Banned books, mostly by parents
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It's not a banned book, but ...
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by Aesop

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by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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by Truman Capote

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by Theodore Dreiser

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A Separate Peace

by John Knowles

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut

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by D. H. Lawrence

Lady Chatterley's Lover

by D. H. Lawrence

All the King's Men

by Robert Penn Warren

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by Ernest Hemingway

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by Ken Kesey

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by Margaret Mitchell

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

A Farewell to Arms

by Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises

by Ernest Hemingway

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by Aldous Huxley

Catch-22

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by William Golding

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Selections. (English.)

by Richard Seaver, Marquis Sade

Animal Farm

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Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes; Third Edition (Yale Nota Bene)

by Eamon Duffy

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by Sandy Brewer

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

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by Richard Francis Burton

Moll Flanders

by Daniel Defoe

Uncle Tom's Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Candide

by Voltaire

The Call of the Wild (Barnes & Noble Classics)

by Jack London

As I Lay Dying

by William Faulkner

Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert

American Psycho

by Bret Easton Ellis

Story of the Eye

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Battling Dragons: Issues and Controversy in Children's Literature

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Pakistan Anchoring to Peace through Justice: Indus Valley 13 Centuries

by Omer Vikas

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

All Quiet on the Western Front

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

Afghanistan A Volatile Country

by Omer Vikas

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

by J. K. Rowling

The Pillars of the Earth

by Ken Follett

My Mother, Madame Edwarda and The Dead Man

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The Moon Is Down

by John Steinbeck

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

by Maya Angelou

The Children of Hurin

by J. R. R. Tolkien

Field of Blood: Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy (Book 1) (Jerusalem's Undead Trilogy)

by Eric Wilson

Perfume

by Patrick Suskind

Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

Dr. Zhivago

by Boris Pasternak

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by Norman Mailer

The Catcher in the Rye

by J. D. Salinger

Womyn

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Diary of a Drug Fiend

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Ulysses

by Danis Rose, Hans Walter Gabler, Claus Melchior, Wolfhard Steppe, James Joyce, Jeri Johnson

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by Salman Rushdie

The Clan of the Cave Bear

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The Well of Loneliness

by Radclyffe Hall

Hotter Than Hell

by Mark Tushingham Ph.D

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Auschwitz

by Pascal Croci

On Bullshit

by Harry G. Frankfurt

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

by Judy Blume

Deenie

by Judy Blume

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by Edna O'Brien

Are You There God? It's Me Margaret

by Judy Blume

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by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers

Midnight's Children: A Novel

by Salman Rushdie

Speak

by Laurie Halse Anderson

Whale Talk

by Chris Crutcher

The Nostrildamus Document

by Courtney Cascadian

Miss Suzy

by Miriam Young

Rogue State, 3rd Edition: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower

by William Blum

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich: A Soviet Novel of Life in Stalin's Forced Labor Camps

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The Painted Bird

by Jerzy Kosinski

The Libertarian Reader: Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao Tzu to Milton Friedman

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by Aldous Huxley

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by Gilles Neret

The Last Day of Summer: Photographs by Jock Sturges

by Jock Sturges, Jayne Anne Phillips

David Hamilton: Twenty Five Years of an Artist

1984

by George Orwell

The Color Purple

by Alice Walker

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by Deborah Ellis

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by Margaret Atwood

The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Annotated Alice

by Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel

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by Shel Silverstein

Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

Where the Sidewalk Ends

by Shel Silverstein

To Kill a Mockingbird

by Harper Lee

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by Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories Of World Literature

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Invisible Man

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