Banned Book Week
September 26, 2016

Dust off your library cards, break out your iPad or Kindle, and read one of the greatest books written by amazing authors. These books push every issue you could imagine, causing them to be on many "banned" book lists. However this is the week to push back and let the Library of Congress know that we mean business and to stop censoring our books.
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1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
11. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
12. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
13. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
14. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
15. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
16. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
17. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
18. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
19. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
20. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison

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21. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
22. Native Son, by Richard Wright
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
24. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
25. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
26. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
27. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
28. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
29. The Lord of the Rings trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
30. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
31. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
32. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
33. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
34. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
35. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
36. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
37. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
38. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
39. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
40. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs

41. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
42. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
43. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
44. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
45. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
46. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
47. The Hunger Games trilogy, by Susan Collins
48. Eleanore & Park, by Rainbow Rowell
49. Mein Kampf, by Adolph Hitler
50. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
51. The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley
52. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, by Dee Brown
53. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
54. Howl, by Allen Ginsberg
55. Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman
56. Moby-Dick (or The Whale), by Herman Melville
57. Native Son, by Richard Wright
58. The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane
59. The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
60. Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert A. Heinlein

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61. A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams
62. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
63. Uncle Tom's Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe
64. Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak
65. The Words of Cesar Chavez, by Cesar Chavez
66. Tarzan series, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
67. Diary of a Young Girl, by Anne Frank
68. Hansel and Gretel, by The Brothers Grimm
69. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
70. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain
71. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
72. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
73. The Story of Little Black Sambo, by Helen Bannerman
74. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair