Have You Read a Banned or Challenged Book?

September 26th through October 3rd is Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read.

Learn more about About Banned and Challenged Books:

• Frequently Challenged Books
• Banned and Challenged Classics
• 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books by Decade
• Number of Challenges by Initiator, Institution, Type and Year
• Most Frequently Challenged Authors of the 21st Century

Looking at the top ten banned and challenged classics, titles link to the library catalog:

1. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, James Joyce
7. Beloved, Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
9. 1984, George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner