Banned Books — A Very Long List
BOOKS SUPPRESSED FOR POLITICAL REASONS
After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness?—My Encounters With Kurdistan, Jonathan C. Randal
The Age of Keynes, Robert Lekachman
All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
America in Legend, Richard M. Dorson
American Civics, William H. Hartley & William S. Vincent
The American Pageant: A History of the Republic, Thomas A. Bailey
Andersonville, Mackinlay Kantor
Animal Farm, George Orwell
Areopagitica, John Milton
Black Boy, Richard Wright
Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans, Wallace Terry
Born on the Fourth of July, Ron Kovic
Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, Mike Royko
Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Bus Stop (Chezhan), Gao Xingjian
By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer, Victor Ostrovsky & Claire Hoy
Cancer Ward, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Child of All Nations, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The China Lobby in American Politics, Ross Y. Koen
The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, Victor Marchetti & John D. Marks
Citizen Tom Paine, Howard Fast
The Commercial Restraints of Ireland Considered, John Hely-Hutchinson
Comparative Politics Today: A World View, Gabriel A. Almond, General Editor
Cry Amandla!, June Goodwin
Das Kapital, Karl Marx
Daughter of Earth, Agnes Smedley
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book, Nat Hentoff
Decent Interval, Frank Snepp
Did Six Million Really Die? The Truth at Last, Richard Harwood
Doctor Zhivago, Boris Pasternak
The Drapier’s Letters, Jonathan Swift
A Dry White Season, André Brink
Du Pont: Behind the Nylon Curtain, Gerard Colby Zilg
Fail-Safe, Eugene Burdick & Harvey Wheeler
Fields of Fire, James Webb
The Fragile Flag, Jane Langton
The Fugitive (Perburuan), Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Fugitives (Taowang), Gao Xingjian
The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
The Green Pope (El Papa Verde), Miguel Angel Asturias
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift
Handbook for Conscientious Objectors, Robert A. Seeley, Editor
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century, Arthur R. Butz
I Am the Cheese, Robert Cormier
Inside Russia Today, John Gunther
Inside the Company: CIA Diary, Philip Agee
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Peter Matthiessen
An Introduction to Problems of American Culture, Harold O. Rugg
The Invisible Government, David Wise & Thomas B. Ross
It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis
Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
A Journey From St. Petersburg To Moscow, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Radishchev
Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George
The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, Jimmy Carter
The Land and People of Cuba, Victoria Ortiz
Land of the Free: A History of the United States, John W. Caughey, John Hope Franklin, & Ernest R. May
Laughing Boy, Oliver La Farge
El Libro Negro de la Justicia Chilena (The Black Book of Chilean Justice), Alejandra Matus
The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka, Wole Soyinka
The Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Marxism Versus Socialism, Vladimir G. Simkhovitch
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
My Brother Sam Is Dead, James Lincoln Collier & Christopher Collier
My Name Is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
My People: The Story of the Jews, Abba Eban
Nelson and Winnie Mandela, Dorothy Hoobler & Thomas Hoobler
1984, George Orwell
Novel Without a Name, Duong Thu Huong
Oil!, Upton Sinclair
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
One People, One Destiny: The Caribbean and Central America Today, Don Rojas
The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis, Wole Soyinka
Our Land, Our Time: A History of the United States, Joseph Robert Conlin
Paradise of the Blind, Duong Thu Huong
The Patriot (Ha Patriot), Hanoch Levin
The Politics of Dispossession, Edward W. Said
The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli
Principles of Nature, Elihu Palmer
Promise of America, Larry Cuban & Philip Roden
The Queen of the Bathtub (Malkat Ambatya), Hanoch Levin
Report of the Siberian Delegation, Leon Trotsky
The Rights of Man, Thomas Paine
Russia, Vernon Ives
Secrecy and Democracy: The CIA in Transition, Stansfield Turner
El Señor Presidente (The President), Miguel Angel Asturias
Slaughterhouse-Five, or the Children’s Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Spycatcher, Peter Wright
The State and Revolution, Vladimir I. Lenin
Strong Wind (Viento Fuerte), Miguel Angel Asturias
The Struggle Is My Life, Nelson Mandela
A Summary View of the Rights of British America, Thomas Jefferson
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig
Ten Days That Shook the World, John Reed
The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien
This Earth of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer
365 Days, Ronald J. Glasser
Today’s Isms: Communism, Fascism, Capitalism, Socialism, William Ebenstein
The Ugly American, William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
United States–Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967, (The Pentagon Papers), U.S. Department of Defense
Waiting, Ha Jin
Why Are We in Vietnam?, Norman Mailer
Words of Conscience: Religious Statements on Conscientious Objection, A. Stauffer Curry, Editor (First Edition), Shawn Perry, Editor (Ninth Edition)
BOOKS SUPPRESSED FOR SEXUAL REASONS
Always Running—La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A., Luis T. Rodriguez
America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy in Action, Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum
An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
The Arabian Nights, or the Thousand and One Nights, Sir Richard Burton, Trans.
The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria), Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Bessie Cotter, Wallace Smith
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Boy, James Hanley
The Buffalo Tree, Adam Rapp
Candide, Voltaire (François Marie Arouet Voltaire)
Candy, Maxwell Kenton
The Carpetbaggers, Harold Robbins
Casanova’s Homecoming (Casanova’s Heimfahrt), Arthur Schnitzler
The Chinese Room, Vivian Connell
Christine, Stephen King
The Clan of the Cave Bear, Jean Auel
Confessions, Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
The Deer Park, Norman Mailer
The Devil Rides Outside, John Howard Griffin
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Samuel Pepys
Droll Stories, Honoré De Balzac
Dubliners, James Joyce
Eat Me, Linda Jaivin
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure, John Cleland
The Fifteen Plagues of a Maidenhead, Anonymous
Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes
The Flowers of Evil (Les Fleurs du Mal), Charles Baudelaire
Forever, Judy Blume
Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor
From Here to Eternity, James Jones
The Genius, Theodore Dreiser
The Gilded Hearse, Charles O. Gorham
The Ginger Man, J. P. Donleavy
The Goats, Brock Cole
God’s Little Acre, Erskine Caldwell
The Group, Mary McCarthy
Hagar Revelly, Daniel Carson Goodman
The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood
The Heptameron (L’heptameron Ou Histoires Des Amans Fortunez), Marguerite D’angoulême, Queen of Navarre
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, Henry Fielding
Homo Sapiens, Stanley Przybyskzewski
How To Make Love Like a Porn Star, Jenna Jameson
If It Die, André Gide
Isle of Pines, Henry Neville
It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health, Robbie H. Harris
Janet March, Floyd Dell
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice, James Branch Cabell
Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue Juliette, Her Sister, or the Prosperities of Vice, Marquis De Sade
The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana, Sir Richard Burton, F. F. Arbuthnot, Translators
The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy
Ladies in the Parlor, Jim Tully
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, D. H. Lawrence
La Terre (The Earth), Émile Zola
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
The Lustful Turk, Anonymous
Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
Madeleine, Anonymous
Mademoiselle De Maupin, Théophile Gautier
The Maid of Orleans (La Pucelle), François-Marie Arouet Voltaire
Memoires, Giovanni Casanova De Seingalt
Memoirs of a Young Rakehell, Guillaume Apollinaire
Memoirs of Hecate County, Edmund Wilson
The Merry Muses of Caledonia, Robert Burns
Moll Flanders, Daniel Defoe
My Life and Loves, Frank Harris
A Night in a Moorish Harem, Anonymous
November (Novembre), Gustave Flaubert
The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 Journées De Sodome), Marquis De Sade
Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre-Dame Des Fleurs), Jean Genet
Outlaw Representation, Richard Meyer
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded, Samuel Richardson
Pansies, D. H. Lawrence
The Perfumed Garden, Sir Richard Burton, Trans.
Peyton Place, Grace Metalious
The Philanderer, Stanley Kauffmann
Poems and Ballads, Algernon Charles Swinburne
Point Counter Point, Aldous Huxley
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence
Replenishing Jessica, Max Bodenheim
Sanctuary, William Faulkner
Sari Says, Sari Locker
The Satyricon, Gaius Petronius Arbiter
September in Quinze, Vivian Connell
Serenade, James M. Cain
Sex, Madonna
Sexus, Henry Miller
Shanghai Baby, Wei Hui (Zhou Weihui)
Simon Called Peter, Robert Keable
1601—A Fireside Conversation in Ye Time of Queen Elizabeth, Mark Twain
Sleeveless Errand, Norah C. James
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
Sophie’s Choice, William Styron
A Story Teller’s Holiday, George Moore
Studs Lonigan: A Trilogy, James T. Farrell
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, David Graham Phillips
Sweeter Than Life, Mark Tryon
Ten North Frederick, John O’Hara
Tess of the D’urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t, Judy Blume
The Thief’s Journal, Jean Genet
Three Weeks, Elinor Glyn
Tobacco Road, Erskine Caldwell
Tragic Ground, Erskine Caldwell
Trilby, George Du Maurier
The Triumph of Death, Gabriele D’annunzio
Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
Tropic of Capricorn, Henry Miller
Ulysses, James Joyce
Venus and Tannhauser (Under the Hill), Aubrey Beardsley
The Wild Palms, William Faulkner
Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence
Women on Top: How Real Life Changed Women’s Sexual Fantasies, Nancy Friday
A Young Girl’s Diary, Anonymous
BOOKS SUPPRESSED FOR SOCIAL REASONS
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The Amboy Dukes, Irving Shulman
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Am I Blue?, Marion Dane Bauer
And Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
Annie on My Mind, Nancy Garden
Another Country, James Baldwin
Aphrodite, Pierre Louÿs
Appointment in Samarra, John O’Hara
As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X, with Alex Haley
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Ernest J. Gaines
Baby Be-Bop, Francesca Lia Block
The Basketball Diaries, Jim Carroll
Being There, Jerzy Kosinski
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers, Langston Hughes, ed.
Black Like Me, John Howard Griffin
Bless the Beasts and Children, Glendon Swarthout
Blubber, Judy Blume
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
Cain’s Book, Alexander Trocchi
Camille, Alexandre Dumas, Jr.
The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
Captain Underpants (Series), Dav Pilkey
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier
A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple, Alice Walker
Cujo, Stephen King
Daddy’s Roommate, Michael Willhoite
A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Newton Peck
Deliverance, James Dickey
A Dictionary of American Slang, Harold Wentworth
Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English, Eric Partridge
Doctor Dolittle (Series), Hugh John Lofting
Dog Day Afternoon, Patrick Mann
Down These Mean Streets, Piri Thomas
Dracula, Bram Stoker
The Drowning of Stephan Jones, Bette Greene
East of Eden, John Steinbeck
Elmer Gantry, Sinclair Lewis
End as a Man, Calder Willingham
Esther Waters, George Moore
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels, Walter Dean Myers
A Farewell To Arms, Ernest Hemingway
Final Exit, Derek Humphry
The Fixer, Bernard Malamud
Fruits of Philosophy: The Private Companion of Married Couples, Charles Knowlton
Gargantua and Pantagruel, François Rabelais
Gentleman’s Agreement, Laura Z. Hobson
The Giver, Lois Lowry
Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey
Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin
Grendel, John Gardner
Heather Has Two Mommies, Leslea Newman
A Hero Ain’t Nothin’ But a Sandwich, Alice Childress
Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou
In the Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Jake and Honeybunch Go To Heaven, Margot Zemach
James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
Jaws, Peter Benchley
Junky, William S. Burroughs
King and King, Linda de Haan & Stern Nijland
Kingsblood Royal, Sinclair Lewis
Last Exit to Brooklyn, Hubert Selby, Jr.
Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman
Little Black Sambo, Helen Bannerman
Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little Red Riding Hood, Charles Perrault
Lord of the Flies, William Golding
Manchild in the Promised Land, Claude Brown
Married Love, Marie Stopes
My House, Nikki Giovanni
The Naked Ape, Desmond Morris
Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
Nana, Émile Zola
Never Love a Stranger, Harold Robbins
New Dictionary of American Slang, Robert L. Chapman
Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
Ordinary People, Judith Guest
The Ox-Bow Incident, Walter Van Tilburg Clark
The Red Pony, John Steinbeck
The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Separate Peace, John Knowles
Sister Carrie, Theodore Dreiser
Soul on Ice, Eldridge Cleaver
Steppenwolf, Hermann Hesse
Strange Fruit, Lillian Smith
Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
To Have and Have Not, Ernest Hemingway
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
Unlived Affections, George Shannon
We All Fall Down, Robert Cormier
Welcome to the Monkey House, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall
Whale Talk, Chris Cutcher
Woman in the Mists, Farley Mowat
Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, Studs Terkel
A World I Never Made, James T. Farrell
Sources:
Fishburn, Matthew. Burning Books. Palgrave MacMillan, 2008.
Karolides, Nicholas J. Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds. Revised edition, Facts on File, 2006.
Karolides, Nicholas J., Margaret Bald, and Dawn B. Sova. 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature. Second edition, Chackmark Books, 2011.
Knuth, Rebecca. Burning Books and Leveling Libraries: Extremist Violence and Cultural Destruction Praeger, 2006.
Sova, Dawn B. Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds. Revised edition, Facts on File, 2006.
Sova, Dawn B. Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds. Revised edition, Facts on File, 2006.