All but one of the above books has been banned or challenged. Do you know which one? Look at the list at the bottom of the page to figure out the answer.
To mark Freedom to Read Week, February 24-March 2, 2013, the TRU Library has created a display—located in the foyer of the main library—of some of the books mentioned in the list below.
The photo above is not part of the library display, but rather was created to promote a previous event around banned and challenged books.
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The following list of banned or challenged books
was provided by the TRU Library
| TITLE | AUTHOR | |
| 1984 | George Orwell | |
| A Day No Pig Would Die | Robert Newton Peck | |
| A Farewell To Arms | Ernest Hemingway | |
| A Fleet Of Being | Rudyard Kipling | |
| A Light In The Attic | Shel Silverstein | |
| A Prayer For Owen Meany | John Irving | |
| About David | Susan Beth Pfeiffer | |
| Adventures Of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | |
| Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | |
| All Quiet On The Western Front | Erich Remarque | |
| All The King’s Men | Robert Penn Warren | |
| America In Legend | Erich Maria Remarque | |
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | |
| American Tragedy | Theodore Dreiser | |
| And Still I Rise | Maya Angelou | |
| And Tango Makes Three | Justin Richardson | |
| Angus, Thongs, And Full Frontal Snogging | Louise Rennison | |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | |
| Anne Frank: Diary Of A Young Girl | Anne Frank | |
| Annie On My Mind | Nancy Garden | |
| Another Country | James Baldwin | |
| Appointment In Samarra | John O’Hara | |
| Aphrodite | Pierre Louys | |
| Areopagitica | John Milton | |
| As I Lay Dying | William Faulkner | |
| Being There | Jerzy Kosinski | |
| Beloved Alice | Walker | |
| Black Beauty | Anna Sewell | |
| Black Boy | Richard Wright | |
| Black Like Me | John Howard Griffin | |
| Blankets | Craig Thompson | |
| Bless The Beasts And Children | Glendon Swarthout | |
| Blubber | Judy Blume | |
| Borstal Boy | Brendan Behanv | |
| Brave New World A | Aldous Huxley | |
| Brideshead Revisited | Evelyn Waugh | |
| Bridge To Terabithia | Katherine Paterson | |
| Burger’s Daughter | Nadine Gordimer | |
| Cain’s Book | Alexander Trocchiv | |
| Camille | Alexander Dumas Jr. | |
| Candide | Francois Voltaire | |
| Carrie | Stephen King | |
| Catch-22 | Joseph Heller | |
| Cat’s Cradle | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| Clockwork Orange | Anthony Burgess | |
| Cujo | Stephen King | |
| Daddy’s Roommate | Michael Willhoite | |
| Das Kapital | Karl Marx | |
| Death Note 1 | Tsugumi Ohba | |
| Deliverance | James Dickey | |
| Doctor Dolittle (Series) | Hugh John Lofting | |
| Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | |
| Dog Day Afternoon | Patrick Mann | |
| Down These Mean Streets | Piri Thomas | |
| Dracula | Bram Stoker | |
| Dubliners | James Joyce | |
| East Of Eden | John Steinbeck | |
| Elmer Gantry | Sinclair Lewis | |
| End As A Man | Calder Willingham | |
| Esther Waters | George Moore | |
| Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | |
| Fanny Hill Or Memoirs Of A Woman Of Pleasure | John Cleland | |
| For Whom The Bell Tolls | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Forever | Judy Blume | |
| Foxfire: Confessions Of A Girl Gang | Joyce Carol Oates | |
| Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | |
| Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic | Alison Bechde | |
| Germinal | Emile Zola | |
| Go Tell It On The Mountain | James Baldwin | |
| Gone With The Wind | Margaret Mitchell | |
| Gulliver’s Travels | Jonathan Swift | |
| Harriet The Spy | Louise Fitzhugh | |
| Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets | J.K. Rowling | |
| Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire | J.K. Rowling | |
| Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix | J.K. Rowling | |
| Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone | J.K. Rowling | |
| Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban | J.K. Rowling | |
| Heart Of Darkness | Joseph Conrad | |
| Heather Has Two Mommies | Leslea Newman | |
| His Dark Materials | Philip Pullman | |
| Howl | Allen Ginsberg | |
| I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings | Maya Angelou | |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote | |
| In The Night Kitchen | Maurice Sendakv | |
| Interventions | Noam Chomsky | |
| Invisible Man | Ralph Ellison | |
| It Can’t Happen Here | Sinclair Lewis | |
| James And The Giant Peach | Roald Dahl | |
| Jaws | Peter Benchely | |
| Junky | William S. Burroughs | |
| Jury’s People | Nadine Gordimer | |
| King & King | Linda de Haan | |
| Kingsblood Royal | Sinclair Lewis | |
| Lady Chatterley’s Lover | D.H. Lawrence | |
| Last Exit To Brooklyn | Herbert Selby | |
| Leaves Of Grass | Walt Whitman | |
| Les Miserables | Victor Hugo | |
| Little Black Sambo | Helen Bannerman | |
| Little House On The Prairie Laura | Ingalls Wilder | |
| Little Red Riding Hood | Charles Perrault | |
| Lives Of Girls And Women | Alice Munro | |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | |
| Lord Of The Flies | William Golding | |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes | |
| Madame Bovary | Gustave Flaubert | |
| Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe | |
| My Name Is Asher Lev | Chaim Potok | |
| Naked Lunch | William S. Burroughs | |
| Nana | Emile Zola | |
| Native Son | Richard Wright | |
| Not Without My Daughter | Betty Mahmoody | |
| Of Mice And Men | John Steinbeck | |
| Of Time And The River | Thomas Wolfe | |
| Oil! | Upton Sinclair | |
| Oliver Twist | Charles Dickens | |
| One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich | Alexander Solzhenitsyn | |
| One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest | Ken Kesey | |
| One Hundred Years Of Solitude | Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
| Ordinary People | Judith Guest | |
| Persepolis | Marjane Satrapi | |
| Rabbit, Run | John Updike | |
| Revolting Rhymes | Roald Dahl | |
| Rich And Mad | William Nicholson | |
| Separate Peace | John Knowles | |
| Sex | Madonna | |
| Sister Carrie | Theodore Dreiser | |
| Slaugherhouse Five | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| Snow Falling On Cedars | David Guterson | |
| Song Of Solomon | Toni Morrison | |
| Sons And Lovers | D.H. Lawrence | |
| Sophie’s Choice | William Styron | |
| Spoils Of War | John Tirman | |
| Such Is My Beloved | Morley Callaghan | |
| Tarzan Of The Apes | Edgar Rice Burroughs | |
| The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | |
| The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer | Mark Twain | |
| The Affluent Society | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
| The Age Of Keynes | Robert Lekachman | |
| The Amboy Dukes | Irving Shulman | |
| The Arabian Nights | Sir Richard Burton | |
| 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 | |
| The Awakening | Kate Chopin | |
| The Bell Jar | Sylvia Plath | |
| The Call Of The Wild | Jack London | |
| The Canterbury Tales | Geoffrey Chaucer | |
| The Catcher In The Rye | J.D. Salinger | |
| The Chocolate War | Robert Cormier | |
| The Color Purple | Alice Walker | |
| The Communist Manifesto | Marx and Engels | |
| The Country Of Girls | Edna O’Brien | |
| The Dark | John McGahern | |
| The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | |
| The Death Of A Salesman | Arthur Miller | |
| The Diary Of A Young Girl | Anne Frank | |
| The Diviners | Margaret Laurence | |
| The Drapier’s Letters | Jonathan Swift | |
| The First Circle | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | |
| The Fixer | Bernard Malamud | |
| The Grapes Of Wrath | John Steinbeck | |
| The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| The Gulag Archipelago | Alexandr Solzhenitsyn | |
| The Gulf Between Us | Geraldine Bedell | |
| The Handmaid’s Tale | Margaret Atwood | |
| The House Of Spirits | Isabel Allende | |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair | |
| The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | |
| The Lord Of The Flies | William Golding | |
| The Lord Of The Rings | J.R.R. Tolkien | |
| The Master And Margarita | Mikhail Bulgakov | |
| The Merchant Of Venice | William Shakespeare | |
| The Metamorphosis | Franz Kafka | |
| The Naked And The Dead | Norman Mailer | |
| The Origin Of Species | Charles Darwin | |
| The Perks Of Being A Wallflower | Stephen Chbosky | |
| The Proof Of The Honey | Salwa Al Neimi | |
| The Red Pony | John Steinbeck | |
| The Rights Of Men | Thomas Paine | |
| The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | |
| The Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne | |
| The Struggle Of My Life | Nelson Mandela | |
| The Sun Also Rises | Ernest Hemingway | |
| The Unbearable Lightness Of Being | Milan Kundera | |
| The Wars | Timothy Findley | |
| The Well Of Loneliness | Radclyffe Hall | |
| The Wonderful World Of Oz | L. Frank Baum | |
| Their Eyes Were Watching God | Zora Neale Hurston | |
| Tintin In The Congo | Hergé | |
| To Have And Have Not | Ernest Hemingway | |
| To Kill A Mockingbird | Harper Lee | |
| Tropic Of Cancer | Henry Miller | |
| Ulysses | James Joyce | |
| Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Harriet Beecher Stowe | |
| Wealth Of Nations | Adam Smith | |
| Welcome To The Monkey House | Kurt Vonnegut | |
| Where Willy Went | Nicholas Allen | |
| Why Are We In Vietnam | Norman Mailer | |
| Wild Pigeon | Nurmuhemmet Yasin | |
| Wild Swan | Jung Chang | |
| Woman In The Mists | Farley Mowat | |
| Women In Love | D.H. Lawrence |
