BOOKS & CENSORSHIP

• ALA: Banned and Challenged Classics http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics
• Banned and/or Challenged Books from the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels from the 20th Century. http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics/reasons. Source: Source: Banned Books: Challenging our Freedom to Read by Robert P. Doyle, ALA 2010.
  
  
• TOP CHALLENGED CLASSIC
  • The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
  • The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
    • "Burned by the East St. Louis, IL Public Library (1939) " (Doyle)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
  • The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
  • The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
  • 1984, by George Orwell
  • Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
  • Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
  • Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
  • Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
  • Animal Farm, by George Orwell
  • The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
  • As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
  • A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest HemingwaY
    
    
• CHALLENGED / BANNED TITLES
• Persopolis : The book has been challenged by the Chicago Public Schools and is censored in IRAN. The movie adaptation from the book has been receiving International acclaim. (YouTube approximately 3 minutes)
• ALA - response to CPS challenge and pulling Persopolis from 7th Grade classes.

CENSORSHIP ARCHIVE

• The File Room Censorship Archive

WEBLINKS

• Free Expression Clearinghouse: A Guide to Free Speech and the First Amendment