Banned Books: You Might’ve Read in School!

What is censorship?

“Hundreds of books have been either removed or challenged in schools and libraries in the United States every year. According to the American Library Association (ALA), there were at least 326 in 2011. ALA estimates that 70 to 80 percent are never reported.”

-bannedbooksweek.org/ censorship

Mark Twain

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885)

“N” wordpromotes racism

J.D. Salinger

Catcher in the Rye (1951)

ObsceneBlasphemousNegative Foulfilthy

Jack London

Call of Wild (1903) Bloody violenceDark tone

F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby (1925)AlcoholismSexual referencesprofanity

Truman Capote

In Cold Blood (1966)

SexViolenceProfanity

Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Scarlet Letter (1850)PornographicObscene

Harper Lee

To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)ProfaneRacistdegrading

Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are (1963)Dark and disturbing

nature

Ray Bradbury

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

HellsDamnsAgainst religious

beliefs

John Steinbeck

Grapes of Wrath (1939)

ProfanitySexual references

William Golding

Lord of the Flies (1954)

ProfanityRacial and sexual

slurs

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