1984, by George Orwell
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
from ALA.org
Why are books challenged?: Often challenges are motivated by a desire to protect children from “inappropriate” sexual content or “offensive” language.
However, as Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., in Texas v. Johnson , stated: If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.
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