Banned & Challenged Books at DU
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Beloved by Publication Date: 1998After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. -
Brave New World by Publication Date: 2006Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order--all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. -
The Catcher in the Rye by Publication Date: 1991The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is a sixteen year old native of New York named Holden Caulfield. -
The Glass Castle by Publication Date: 2006A memoir of resilience amid a deeply dysfunctional childhood, The Glass Castle tells the story of Jeannette Walls who is forced to fend for herself at an early age. -
The Handmaid's Tale by Publication Date: 1998Funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing, The Handmaid's Tale is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and literary tour de force. -
The Holy Bible - Containing the Old and New Testaments: New Revised Standard Version by Publication Date: 1989 -
The Kite Runner by Publication Date: 2005The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy boy and the son of his father's servant, The Kite Runner is sweeping story of family, love, and friendship told against the devastating backdrop of the history of Afghanistan over the last thirty years. -
Lolita by Publication Date: 1997Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. -
Lord of the Flies by Publication Date: 1982The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures. -
The Lovely Bones by Publication Date: 2004Susie relates the awful events of her death. A suspenseful and touching story about family, memory, love, heaven, and living. -
Snow Falling on Cedars by Publication Date: 1995San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. -
A Stolen Life by Publication Date: 2011New York Times bestselling memoir chronicles her raw and powerful story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years. -
To Kill a Mockingbird by Publication Date: 2006Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South--and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred.
Banned & Challenged E-books: Project Gutenberg
Below are links to eBooks made possible by Project Gutenberg, the oldest digital library founded in 1971. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. In the 16th century, Gutenberg allowed anyone to have print books for a small cost. In the 21st century, however, Project Gutenberg allows anyone to have a digital library at no cost.
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Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain
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Call of the Wildby Jack London
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Gulliver's Travelsby Jonathan Swift
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The Jungleby Upton Sinclair
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsysyanaby Vatsysyana
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman
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Sons and Loversby D.H. Lawrence
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Ulyssesby James Joyce
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Uncle Tom's Cabinby Harriet Beecher Stowe
Books About Book Censorship
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The Censor's Library by Publication Date: 2012When Nicole Moore discovered the secret 'censor's library' in the National Archives - 793 boxes prohibited from the 1920s to the 1980s - so began a journey that resulted in this, the first comprehensive examination of Australian book censorship. For much of the twentieth century, Australia banned more books and more serious books than most other English-speaking or Western countries, from the Kama Sutra through to Huxley's Brave New World and Joyce's Ulysses. -
The Hatred of Literature by Publication Date: 2018The Hatred of Literature examines the evolving idea of literature as seen through the eyes of its adversaries: philosophers, theologians, scientists, pedagogues, and even leaders of modern liberal democracies. From Plato to C. P. Snow to Nicolas Sarkozy, literature's haters have questioned the value of literature - its truthfulness, virtue, and usefulness - and have attempted to demonstrate its harmfulness. -
Book Banning and Other Forms of Censorship by Publication Date: 2016Book Banning and Other Forms of Censorship examines how and why schools, special-interest groups, and governments attempt to suppress information in print and online. -
Obscene in the Extreme by Publication Date: 2009Few books have caused as big a stir as John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, when it was published in April 1939. By May, it was the nation's number one bestseller, but in Kern County, California -- the Joads' newfound home -- the book was burned publicly and banned from library shelves. Obscene in the Extreme tells the remarkable story behind this fit of censorship.
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