{"id":591,"date":"2004-09-18T22:48:36","date_gmt":"2004-09-19T06:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/18\/more-banned-or-challenged-books\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:01","slug":"more-banned-or-challenged-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/18\/more-banned-or-challenged-books\/","title":{"rendered":"More Banned or Challenged Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pick a book, any book.  <\/p>\n<p><b>Top 100 Novels Of The 20th Century<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n<p>According to the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/\">ALA<\/a><\/b>, at least 42 of the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/modernlibrary\/100best\/radcliffe.html\">Radcliffe Publishing Course<\/a><\/b> Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts.  Here they are:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<b>The titles in bold represent banned or challenged books. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>(Those with ** next to them are books I have read.  I plan to work on the list over time.)<\/p>\n<p><b>1.\tThe Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald **<br \/>2.\tCatcher in the Rye, JD Salinger **<br \/>3.\tThe Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck **<br \/>4.\tTo Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee **<br \/>5.\tThe Color Purple, Alice Walker **<br \/>6.\tUlysses, James Joyce <br \/>7.\tBeloved, Toni Morrison **<br \/>8.\tThe Lord of the Flies, William Golding **<br \/>9.\t1984, George Orwell **<\/b><br \/>10.\tThe Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner <br \/><b>11.\tLolita, Vladmir Nabokov **<br \/>12.\tOf Mice and Men, John Steinbeck **<\/b><br \/>13.\tCharlotte&#8217;s Web, EB White **<br \/>14.\tA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce <br \/><b>15.\tCatch-22, Joseph Heller **<br \/>16.\tBrave New World, Aldous Huxley **<\/b><br \/>17.\tAnimal Farm, George Orwell **<br \/><b>18.\tThe Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway ** <br \/>19.\tAs I Lay Dying, William Faulkner <br \/>20.\tA Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway **<br \/>21.\tHeart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad <\/b><br \/>22.\tWinnie-the-Pooh, AA Milne **<br \/><b>23.\tTheir Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston **<br \/>24.\tInvisible Man, Ralph Ellison **<br \/>25.\tSong of Solomon, Toni Morrison **<br \/>26.\tGone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell **<br \/>27.\tNative Son, Richard Wright **<br \/>28.\tOne Flew Over the Cuckoo&#8217;s Nest, Ken Kesey **<br \/>29.\tSlaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut **<br \/>30.\tFor Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway **<\/b><br \/>31.\tOn the Road, Jack Kerouac <br \/>32.\tThe Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway **<br \/><b>33.\tThe Call of the Wild, Jack London **<\/b><br \/>34.\tTo the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf <br \/>35.\tPortrait of a Lady, Henry James <br \/><b>36.\tGo Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin **<\/b><br \/>37.\tThe World According to Garp, John Irving **<br \/><b>38.\tAll the King&#8217;s Men, Robert Penn Warren <\/b><br \/>39.\tA Room with a View , EM Forster <br \/>40.\tThe Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien <br \/>41.\tSchindler&#8217;s List, Thomas Keneally <br \/>42.\tThe Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton <br \/>43.\tThe Fountainhead, Ayn Rand <br \/>44.\tFinnegans Wake, James Joyce <br \/><b>45.\tThe Jungle, Upton Sinclair **<\/b><br \/>46.\tMrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf <br \/>47.\tThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Frank L. Baum **<br \/><b>48.\tLady Chatterley&#8217;s Lover, DH Lawrence <br \/>49.\tA Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess **<\/b><br \/>50.\tThe Awakening, Kate Chopin **<br \/>51.\tMy Antonia, Willa Cather **<br \/>52.\tHoward&#8217;s End, EM Forster <br \/><b>53.\tIn Cold Blood, Truman Capote **<\/b><br \/>54.\tFranny and Zooey, JD Salinger **<br \/><b>55.\tSatanic Verses, Salman Rushdie <\/b><br \/>56.\tJazz, Toni Morrison <br \/>57.\tSophie&#8217;s Choice, William Styron **<br \/>58.\tAbsalom, Absalom!, William Faulkner <br \/>59.\tPassage to India, EM Forster <br \/>60.\tEthan Frome, Edith Wharton **<br \/>61.\tA Good Man is Hard to Find, Flannery O&#8217;Connor **<br \/>62.\tTender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald <br \/>63.\tOrlando, Virginia Woolf <br \/><b>64.\tSons and Lovers, DH Lawrence <\/b><br \/>65.\tBonfire of the Vanities, Thomas Wolfe **<br \/><b>66.\tCat&#8217;s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut **<br \/>67.\tA Separate Peace, John Knowles **<\/b><br \/>68.\tLight in August, William Faulkner <br \/>69.\tThe Wings of the Dove, Henry James <br \/>70.\tThings Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe <br \/>71.\tRebecca, Daphne du Maurier <br \/>72.\tA Hithchiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams **<br \/><b>73.\tNaked Lunch, William S. Burroughs <\/b><br \/>74.\tBrideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh <br \/><b>75.\tWomen in Love, DH Lawrence <\/b><br \/>76.\tLook Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe <br \/>77.\tIn Our Time, Ernest Hemingway <br \/>78.\tThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein <br \/>79.\tThe Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett <br \/><b>80.\tThe Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer <\/b><br \/>81.\tThe Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys <br \/>82.\tWhite Noise, Don DeLillo **<br \/>83.\tO Pioneers!, Willa Cather **<br \/><b>84.\tTropic of Cancer, Henry Miller **<\/b><br \/>85.\tThe War of the Worlds, HG Wells <br \/>86.\tLord Jim, Joseph Conrad <br \/>87.\tThe Bostonians, Henry James <br \/><b>88.\tAn American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser **<\/b><br \/>89.\tDeath Comes for the Archbishop, Willa Cather <br \/>90.\tThe Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame **<br \/>91.\tThis Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald <br \/>92.\tAtlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand <br \/>93.\tThe French Lieutenant&#8217;s Woman, John Fowles ** <br \/>94.\tBabbitt, Sinclair Lewis **<br \/>95.\tKim, Rudyard Kipling <br \/>96.\tThe Beautiful and the Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald <br \/><b>97.\tRabbit, Run, John Updike <\/b><br \/>98.\tWhere Angels Fear to Tread, EM Forster <br \/>99.\tMain Street, Sinclair Lewis <br \/>100. Midnight&#8217;s Children , Salman Rushdie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pick a book, any book. Top 100 Novels Of The 20th Century According to the ALA, at least 42 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts. 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