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List of banned books

Many societies have banned certain books. This is a partial list of books which have been banned by some organisation at some place and time.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
The Alice[?] series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor[?]
Always Running[?] by Luis Rodriguez
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Anarchist Cookbook[?] by William Powell
Anastasia Krupnik[?] by Lois Lowry
Annie on My Mind[?] by Nancy Garden[?]
The Arabian Nights
Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret[?] by Judy Blume
Arizona Kid[?] by Ron Koertge[?]
Asking About Sex and Growing Up[?] by Joanna Cole[?]
Athletic Shorts[?] by Chris Crutcher[?]
Beloved[?] by Toni Morrison
Black Beauty[?] by Anna Sewell
Bless Me, Ultima[?] by Rudolfo A. Anaya[?]
Blood and Chocolate[?] by Annette Curtis Klause[?]
Blubber[?] by Judy Blume
The Bluest Eye[?] by Toni Morrison
The Boy Who Lost His Face[?] by Louis Sachar
Boys and Sex[?] by Wardell Pomeroy[?]
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia[?] by Katherine Paterson[?]
Bumps in the Night[?] by Harry Allard[?]
Call of the Wild[?] by Jack London
Can Such Things Be?[?] by Ambrose Bierce
Candide by Voltaire
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War[?] by Robert Cormier[?]
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Crazy Lady[?] by Jane Conly[?]
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat[?] by Alvin Schwartz
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes and Spells[?] by Daniel Cohen[?]
Daddy's Roommate[?] by Michael Willhoite[?]
A Day No Pigs Would Die[?] by Robert Newton Peck[?]
The Dead Zone[?] by Stephen King
Decameron by Boccaccio
Deenie[?] by Judy Blume
Did Six Million Really Die?[?] by Ernst Zündel
The Drowning of Stephen Jones[?] by Bette Greene[?]
Earth's Children[?] (series) by Jean M. Auel[?]
The Face on the Milk Carton[?] by Caroline Cooney[?]
Fade[?] by Robert Cormier[?]
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers[?]
Family Limitation[?] by Margaret Sanger
Family Secrets[?] by Norma Klein[?]
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
Final Exit[?] by Derek Humphry[?]
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes[?]
Forever[?] by Judy Blume
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Girls and Sex[?] by Wardell Pomeroy[?]
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Goats[?] by Brock Cole[?]
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Goosebumps[?] (series) by R.L. Stine[?]
The Great Gilly Hopkins[?] by Katherine Paterson[?]
Guess What?[?] by Mem Fox[?]
Halloween ABC[?] by Eve Merriam[?]
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Headless Cupid[?] by Zilpha Keatley Snyder[?]
Heather Has Two Mommies[?] by Leslea Newman[?]
The House of Spirits[?] by Isabel Allende
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
How to Eat Fried Worms[?] by Thomas Rockwell[?]
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings[?] by Maya Angelou[?]
In the Night Kitchen[?] by Maurice Sendak[?]
It's Perfectly Normal[?] by Robie Harris[?]
Jack[?] by A.M. Homes[?]
James and the Giant Peach[?] by Roald Dahl
Jerusalem Delivered[?] by Tasso[?]
Julie of the Wolves[?] by Jean Craighead George[?]
Jump Ship to Freedom[?] by James Lincoln Collier[?] and Christopher Collier[?]
Kaffir Boy[?] by Mark Mathabane[?]
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Killing Mr. Duncan[?] by Lois Duncan[?]
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Last Exit to Brooklyn[?] by Hubert Selby Jr.[?]
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A Light in the Attic[?] by Shel Silverstein
Little Black Sambo[?] by Helen Bannerman[?]
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
Moll Flanders[?] by Daniel Defoe
Mommy Laid An Egg[?] by Babette Cole[?]
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
My Brother Sam is Dead[?] by James Lincoln Collier[?] and Christopher Collier[?]
The Naked Lunch[?] by William S. Burroughs
Native Son by Richard Wright
The New Joy of Gay Sex[?] by Charles Silverstein[?]
On My Honor[?] by Marion Dane Bauer[?]
Ordinary People by Judith Guest[?]
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
The Outsiders[?] by S.E. Hinton[?]
The Pigman[?] by Paul Zindel[?]
Pillars of the Earth[?] by Ken Follett
Private Parts[?] by Howard Stern
The Provincial Letters[?] by Blaise Pascal
The Rights of Man[?] by Thomas Paine
Running Loose[?] by Chris Crutcher[?]
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Scary Stories[?] (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Sex[?] by Madonna
Sex Education[?] by Jenny Davis[?]
Sexual Revolution in South Africa: The Pink Agenda: The Ruin of the Family[?] by Christine McCafferty[?] and Peter Hammond[?]
Silas Marner[?] by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Stupids[?] (series) by Harry Allard[?]
Summer of My German Soldier[?] by Bette Green[?]
Teleny[?], sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney[?]
Tiger Eyes[?] by Judy Blume
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Ulysses by James Joyce
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
View from the Cherry Tree[?] by Willo Davis Roberts[?]
We All Fall Down[?] by Robert Cormier[?]
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons[?] by Lynda Madaras[?]
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters[?] by Lynda Madaras[?]
Where Did I Come From?[?] by Peter Mayle[?]
Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford[?]
The Witches[?] by Roald Dahl
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women?s Fantasies[?] by Nancy Friday[?]
A Wrinkle in Time[?] by Madeleine L'Engle[?]

Various religious texts[?] have been banned (and sometimes burned) at several points in history. The Bible, the Quran, and the Torah have all been subjected to censorship and have been banned in various cities and countries.

Books dealing with criminal matter have also been subjected to censorship. Small-press titles that have become infamous due to their being banned include the Anarchists' Cookbook[?], E for Ecstasy[?], and Hit Man[?].