Works discussed in this volume;

Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds

THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN
Mark Twain

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

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

BEING THERE
Jerzy Kosinski

THE BELL JAR
Sylvia Plath

THE BEST SHORT STORIES BY NEGRO WRITERS
Langston Hughes, Editor

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

THE CANTERBURY TALES
Geoffrey Chaucer

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 DAYAFTERNOON
Patrick Mann

DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS
Piri Thomas

DRACULA
Bram Stoker

EAST OF EDEN
John Steinbeck

ELMER GANTRY
Sinclair Lewis

END AS A MAN
Calder Willingham

ESTHER WATERS
George Moore

FAHRENHEIT 451
Ray Bradbury

A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Ernest Hemingway

THE FIXER
Bernard Malamud

FRUITS OF PHILOSOPHY: THE PRIVATE COMPANION OF MARRIED COUPLES
Charles Knowlton

GARGANTUA AND PANTAGRUEL
François Rabelais

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

JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH
Roald Dahl

JAWS
Peter Benchley

JUNKY
William S. Burroughs

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 Chapman (discussed with A DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN SLANG)

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 FR UIT
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

WELCOME TO THE MONKEY HOUSE
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

THE WELL OF LONELINESS
Radclyffe Hall

WOMAN IN THE MISTS
Farley Mowat (discussed with GORILLAS IN THE MIST)

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

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