LibGuides: Banned Books : Banned Classic Books

Classic Banned Books @ Memorial Library

The adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Call Number: PS1305.A2 H49 v.8 and Delta PS1305 .A1 1885
ISBN: 0520059654
Publication Date: 1988
Reason: racism

This is a list of books that appear the most often on banned books lists and are available at Memorial Library!

Beloved by Toni Morrison; A. S. Byatt (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B4 2006
ISBN: 0307264882
Publication Date: 2006-10-17
First published 1987
Reason: too violent
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Call Number: PS3537.A426 C315 1991
ISBN: 0316769487
Publication Date: 1991-05-01
Reasons: offensive language, unsuited for certain age groups
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
ISBN: 0151191549
Publication Date: 1992-05-22
Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for certain age groups
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck; Robert Demott (Editor, Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 G8 1939
ISBN: 0143039431
Publication Date: 2006-03-28
Reasons: profanity, sexuality, using God and Jesus' name in "vain and profound manner"
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Matthew J. Bruccoli (Editor); Fredson Bowers (Text by)
ISBN: 0521402301
Publication Date: 1991-08-30
First published: 1925
Reasons: reference to drugs, sexuality, and profanity
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
ISBN: 9780345514400
Publication Date: 2009-04-21
First published: 1969
Reason: sexually explicit
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Call Number: PR6013.O35 L6
ISBN: 0140283331
Publication Date: 1955
Reason: profanity, sexuality, racial slurs, and excessive violence
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Call Number: PR6029.R8 N49 1984
ISBN: 0151660387
Publication Date: 1983
Reason: pro-communism ideas, sexuality
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Call Number: PS3537.T3234 O4 1937
ISBN: 0142000671
Publication Date: 1937
Reasons: offensive language, racism, violence
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken kesey
Call Number: PS3561.E667 O532 1962
ISBN: 0451163966
Publication Date: 1962
Reasons: profanity, unsavory theme, sexuality, and racism
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3562.E353 T6 1995
ISBN: 006017322X
Publication Date: 1995
Reasons: offensive language; racism
Ulysses by James Joyce
Call Number: PR6019 .O9 U4 1984
ISBN: 0824043758
Publication Date: 1984
First published: 1919

Books about Banned Books @ Memorial Library

Banned Books,387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. by Annne L. Haight; Chandler B. Grannis (Compiled by); Charles Rembar (Compiled by)
Call Number: Z1019 .H15 1978
ISBN: 0835210782
Publication Date: 1999-08-01
Banned in the U. S. A.: a reference guide to book censorship in schools and public libraries / by Herbert N. Foerstel
Call Number: Z658.U5 F64 1994
ISBN: 0313311668
Publication Date: 2002-07-30
Also available in electronic format
The banned books of England and other countries; a study of the conception of literary obscenity. by Craig, Alec
Call Number: KD8075 .C7
Publication Date: 1962
Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds by Nicholas J. Karolides
Call Number: Z658.U5 K37 1998
ISBN: 0816033048
Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds by Dawn B. Sova
Call Number: PN56.E7 S68 1998
ISBN: 0816033056
Publication Date: 1998-04-01
Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds by Dawn B. Sova
Call Number: Z658.U5 S69 1998
ISBN: 081603303X
Publication Date: 1998-04-01

Articles @ Memorial Library

Ferguson, C. J. (2014). Is reading “banned” books associated with behavior problems in young readers? The influence of controversial young adult books on the psychological well-being of adolescents. Psychology Of Aesthetics, Creativity, And The Arts, 8(3), 354-362.

Kent, B. (2010). Literary criticism and the recovery of banned books: the case of Kate O'Brien's Mary Lavelle. Ariel, (2), 47.

Merveldt, N. (2007). Books Cannot Be Killed by Fire: The German Freedom Library and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books as Agents of Cultural Memory. Library Trends, (3), 523.

Mitzel, J. (2012). Banned in Boston: the Watch and Ward Society's Crusade Against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil. The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide, (6), 63.