Title↕ | Author↕ | Published↕ | Reason Banned↕ | Notably Banned In↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Obscenity | United States, United Kingdom |
Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 1928 | Obscenity | United Kingdom, Australia |
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | Sexual content | France, United Kingdom |
The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | Religious offense | Iran, India, Pakistan |
Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 | Obscenity | United States |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | Language / racial slurs | Various US schools |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | Language / racial themes | Various US schools |
1984 | George Orwell | 1949 | Political content | Soviet Union |
Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 | Political allegory | Soviet Union, UAE |
The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 | Profanity / sexuality | Various US schools |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | Sexual content | Ireland, India |
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Political / vulgar | Kern County, California |
Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | Language / violence | Various US schools |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | Violence / sexual content | Various US schools |
The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 1982 | Sexual content / language | Various US schools |
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1953 | Language / themes | Various US schools |
Harry Potter series | J.K. Rowling | 1997 | Witchcraft | UAE, various US schools |
Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | 1925 | Hate speech | Germany (until 2016), Netherlands |
The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 2003 | Religious offense | Lebanon |
The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 1947 | Sexual passages | Lebanon, various US schools |
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 | Profanity / racial slurs | Various US schools |
Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 1957 | Anti-Soviet | Soviet Union |
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 2003 | Violence / sexual content | Various US schools |
Gender Queer | Maia Kobabe | 2019 | Sexual content / LGBTQ | Various US schools |
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