My goodness, I must be a very wicked person by now, I’ve read so many books on the list at Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century.
Here are the ones I’ve read:
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
- To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- The Color Purple, Alice Walker
- Ulysses, James Joyce
- Beloved, Toni Morrison
- The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
- 1984, George Orwell
- Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
- Catch-22, Joseph Heller
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
- Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
- The Call of the Wild, Jack London
- Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
- Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
- The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
- The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence
- A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
- Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
- Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence
- A Separate Peace, John Knowles
- Women in Love, DH Lawrence
- In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
And those I have yet to seek out (In for a penny, in for a pound!)
- A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
- As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
- Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
- Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
- Native Son, Richard Wright
- Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
- All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
- Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
- Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
- The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
- Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
- An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
- Rabbit, Run, John Updike
If you want to see the reasons why these books were banned or challenged, click the link at the top of this post.
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