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List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward
Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

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You would love The Chocolate War. I keep meaning to do this one.

It's one of the books I've always intended to read, but haven't got around to.

Dude from the death_note wank has made it to Journalfen and is now busy calling me a loser. *snerk* I'm waiting for the INTARWEB LAWYERS threat.

The great thing is it's YA so you can read it in a couple hours. Definitely up your alley.

Ooh, so he wasn't the mouse? Or is he just outing himself now?

He's the mouse, just outing himself. And spazzing more and more each time as he gets so mad he can't type straight.

And it all stems from the fact that he couldn't bring himself to admit that he'd phrased himself badly. He made a couple of attempts in that direction in the early comments before the sheer numbers of OMG U SEXIST! drowned him and made him feel he'd be losing face in front of all the guuuurls if he admitted it. Which results in him digging himself ever more deeper.

He should come to my husband's company, he'd be a rousing success.

Hmm. Maybe he works there.

Heh. One thing that being online and being on fandom_wank has taught me is that the ability to apologize gracefully is the #1 life skill that everyone should learn, and that it's the hardest one to acquire. God knows I try. I fail a lot, but I'm getting better.

The #2 life skill is backing the fuck down. Even if he'd decided we were all wrong, he could STFU about it.

*bolds every single one*
I was a book freak growing up and I own half of this list. And yes.. I was nuts enough to read the entire bible, four times ^_^ I really love some of the earlier bits of the hebrew scritures, they get downright funny in parts

I started reading the Bible when I was a kid. I made it partway through the Old Testament before giving up. :)

Did you try a newer translation? There are some in plain honest english that are fairly good. Only thing I dislike (YEs I can read hebrew and greek.. Can't speak a word of it but I can read it) God's name isn't "God' "Lord" or "Jesus" like many of the translations screw up with.

I honestly don't remember. It was whatever we had lying about the house. We had an eclectic collection of books including the Koran and the Book of Mormon, and a book on the Apocrypha that my parents had just somehow collected over the years.

LOL sounds like my place.. only I was nuts enough to read them and then learn to read greek and hebrew cause I got mad when I found out a couple books wheren't in english.. and I've yet to figure out HOW I managed that 0.o I got some basics then just took off, it was the same with english and I have done the same with Japanese, I can read it.. translate it in my head, but ask me to read out loud and well.. if you want just the gist of it I can give that but ask for any details and I'm like "....."

Of course now I'm trying to learn to actually speak japanese.. doing alright I guess, but I really need to find a class..

Meant to add - as an undergrad I took a class on Archaeology of the Old Testament, where we looked at the OT and at the archaeological record of tis events.

Interesting class. Can't remember any of it, but still interesting. :)

LOL I did my own study, I took a single class but it was so much hogwash really, just someone trying to look good and not knowing what the hell they were talking about. They had things so washed in dogma and crap they missed the entire point! I found it amusing for about three days then got a transfer. I wasn't the only one. YOu could learn more researching an enclycopidia than that class.

Mine was great - my anthropology prof was a Catholic ex-priest (left the priesthood to get married), and he team-taught it with a guy from the Religion department who was a Judaic scholar. It was a really good balanced look at it - mostly focusing on the archaeological evidence for life in the area at the time, and how the writers of the Bible interpreted their oral histories of the time, and what we could deduce through comparative anthropology - looking at similar cultures in similar areas that we know more about.

I went a more anthroligal angle myself. No so much myth and stupidity. Since comparing works such as hindu and whatnot is NOT the way to go, totaly different culture and area.

*still reading and rereading this list* This is just cracked.. I mean.. COMMON POEPLE!
*shakes head* autobiagraphy of benjermin franklin, HELL MOST THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDANCE IS IN THAT!
Sherlock holms, robert hieline... it's like they just took the entire classics list and put 'banned' on it... What's next? Issac Asomov? Harry Potter? WHAT THE HELL IS LEFT TO READ!
It's like.. there is more sex and violance in todays videogames and movies and EVEN CARTOONS than there is objectionalble in everyone of of those books...

and the Mein Kampf.. is frankly brilliant and a good way of LEARNING what the hell the man was thinking, it was written before he rose to power actually.. it really gives a new light on the entire war, but people see you reading it and they are really weird about it before this so called ban.. and OK Lolita is the seduction of a minor, but its still brilliant overall. I certainly wouldn't suggest that one in a gradeschooler's library. Not like you can even find it at most public libraries either. Either stolen or they never got a copy.

Next they will be saying Peter Pan will be on that list...
*goes on grumbling* This is against freedom of press, speech and rights!

Well, you now, there's FAIRIES and MAGIC in Peter Pan! And the children don't respect their parents! What awful things will it do to the minds of those poor, innocent babes who might accidentally come across it and be ~~entertained~~ corrupted?!

NOO! They will killl tink! *clapping hands franticly* I do believe in fairies! I do I do!