Top Banned Classics: This page describes some of the top challenged classics that have been banned and the reasons for that.
1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
11. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
12. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
13. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
14. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
15. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
16. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
17. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
18. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
19. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
20. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
21. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
22. Native Son, by Richard Wright
23. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
24. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
25. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
26. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
27. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
28. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
30. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
31. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
32. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
33. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
34. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
35. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
36. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
37. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
38. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
39. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
40. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
41. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
42. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
43. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
44. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
45. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
46. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
47. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
