Can you name the 46 banned books from the 'Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century'*?

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Source: American Library Association
*According to the American Library Association, 46 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course's "Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century" have been the subject of serious and repeated ban attempts.
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Primary Reason(s)	Book	Author
profanity/sex		F. Scott Fitzgerald
profanity/sex/alcohol		J.D. Salinger
profanity/sex		John Steinbeck
profanity/racial slurs		Harper Lee
profanity/sex/racial issues		Alice Walker
unlisted		James Joyce
violence/sex/profanity		Toni Morrison
violence/profanity/racial slurs		William Golding
sex/'pro-Communism'		George Orwell
sex		Vladmir Nabokov
profanity/racial slurs		John Steinbeck
profanity		Joseph Heller
sex/drugs		Aldous Huxley
profanity/sex		William Faulkner
sex		Ernest Hemingway
unlisted		George Orwell
unlisted		Joseph Conrad
unlisted		Ernest Hemingway
profanity/sex		Zora Neale Hurston
profanity/violence/sex		Ralph Ellison
sex/racial issues		Toni Morrison
racial issues/racial slurs		Margaret Mitchell
profanity/sex/violence		Richard Wright

Primary Reason(s)	Book	Author
sex/violence		Ken Kesey
profanity/sex/religious issues		Kurt Vonnegut
unlisted (declared non-mailable)		Ernest Hemingway
unlisted		Jack London
profanity/sex		James Baldwin
unlisted		Robert Penn Warren
violence/language		JRR Tolkien
unlisted		Upton Sinclair
unlisted (sex)		D.H. Lawrence
profanity		Anthony Burgess
unlisted		Kate Chopin
sex/violence/profanity		Truman Capote
religious criticism		Salman Rushdie
sex		D.H. Lawrence
unlisted		Kurt Vonnegut
profanity		John Knowles
sex		Evelyn Waugh
profanity/obscenity		William S. Burroughs
obscenity		D.H. Lawrence
unlisted		Norman Mailer
obscenity		Henry Miller
sex		Theodore Dreiser
sex/profanity		John Updike

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	Catherine_F:	May 31st, 2012 at 14:49 GMT		49 points
	46 books worth reading, in other words

	rockgolf:	May 31st, 2012 at 15:01 GMT		42 points
	I wonder how many of these The Bible qualifies under.

	Davidos:	May 31st, 2012 at 15:11 GMT		9 points
	"One Flew..." and "Catcher" are two of the greatest books ever written. Also, poor Ernest Hemingway for getting three books banned.

	Aiwendil:	May 31st, 2012 at 15:12 GMT		69 points
	Tolkien was banned for 'language'? Apparently there are schools with strict anti-Elvish policies.

	yellowdart5:	May 31st, 2012 at 15:23 GMT		22 points
	"A Clockwork Orange" was banned for profanity but not for violence?

	DarkPhalanx:	May 31st, 2012 at 15:29 GMT		59 points
	If you bad 1984 for being pro-communist, you have really missed the point. In fact you'd be the biggest boat-misser since John Jacob Astor in 1912

	Tagabasa:	May 31st, 2012 at 15:36 GMT		20 points
	I'm sorry Theodore Dreiser, but I thought your name was Theodor Geisel at first glance, and that was rather confusing.

	Absentia:	May 31st, 2012 at 15:44 GMT		10 points
	Beyond the fact that all censorship is bad, some of these are totally absurd. TKAM for "racial slurs"? 1984 as "pro-Communism"? Give me a break.

	WhiteIcing:	May 31st, 2012 at 16:02 GMT		1 point
	where's tom sawyer?

	ChileNoseJam:	May 31st, 2012 at 16:02 GMT		25 points
	I wonder how many of the people who make the decisions to ban books actually read the books in question first?

	WindSword:	May 31st, 2012 at 16:16 GMT		8 points
	Man, schools do not like D. H. Lawrence for some reason.

	Davidos:	May 31st, 2012 at 17:02 GMT		22 points
	Also, I like how these books are banned, but all of the ones that I knew on this list (except Tolkien's) were books I was assigned to read in school xD

	SwizzleStik:	May 31st, 2012 at 17:06 GMT		6 points
	The Satanic Verses has a very reactionary title, but is very tame and not at all shocking to anyone who isn't a radical Muslim. It's a little disorienting for someone who hasn't read much magical realism, such as myself, but still a quite entertaining read. I'm glad Mr. Rushdie no longer has that fatwah hanging over his head!

	tulliuscicero:	May 31st, 2012 at 18:39 GMT		3 points
	Naked Lunch and The Naked and the Dead aren't banned for sex? Just based on the title, that's something that I thought would be a bit of a problem.

	Lions6116:	May 31st, 2012 at 18:53 GMT		6 points
	"Tropic of Cancer" makes me want to watch some seinfeld re-runs

	bootheduke:	May 31st, 2012 at 19:29 GMT		4 points
	People are just ridiculous. As far as racial slurs, how do we know how far we've come, if we can't read about how it used to be? And as for sex...who cares? If you don't like it, don't read it, and don't have it. Leave everybody else alone.

	WCRoentgen:	May 31st, 2012 at 20:11 GMT		3 points
	@WhiteIcing. I think these are only 20th century works.

	Beatlezfann:	May 31st, 2012 at 20:11 GMT		7 points
	Okay, I'd like to have a few words with the people who have tried to get Lord of the Rings banned.

	rockfan229:	May 31st, 2012 at 20:13 GMT		5 points
	Gatsby, LOTR, Hemmingway, Call of the Wild, Catcher, TKAM, Of Mice & Men, Lord of the Flies, and The Grapes of Wrath are all books I've read in school. I don't get how people are that immature that they'd ban those books. The Jungle's probably banned for just being plain disgusting

	Bobman1:	May 31st, 2012 at 20:27 GMT		3 points
	These comments are priceless! My only one is damn you Nora Zeale Hurston... I never get that title right. Six or seven tries and ran out of time/interest. Someone is watching someone, past tense or present, God is involved (as either a watcher or watchee), and STILl I mess it up nine times out of ten. Maybe if I just read the damn thing I'll remember it. Oh, but it's banned. Now I'll NEVER get the chance...;-) My favorite Naked Lunch gag is when Bart and Nelson skip school to watch the movie on the Simpsons, then walk out of the theater saying "There are two things wrong with that title."

	Bobman1:	May 31st, 2012 at 20:31 GMT		9 points
	Oops, I apologize for using the d-word above. It'll probably get my comment banned for being pro-communism or something.... even though I was just talking about a hydroelectric plant, I swear. No, not "swear" of course, that's not what I meant, really. Oh, $#@!, forget it.

	debbiedoesnothin:	May 31st, 2012 at 20:32 GMT		3 points
	I thought I was either spelling Madam or Chatterley wrong. LADY, it's LADY, stupid! Great quiz.

	Mockingjays:	May 31st, 2012 at 21:15 GMT		1 point
	Gone with the Wind is seriously one of my favorite books ever. I bawled at the end of it though. Damn you Margaret Mitchell. I was holding out for a happy ending, even though it wouldn't make sense.

	Geo1:	May 31st, 2012 at 22:07 GMT		5 points
	Slaughterhouse-5: Where the main character fights in a war, gets beat to a pulp, and witnessess a major firebombing of a city, killing thousands. Why isn't it listed for violence!?

	dylz:	May 31st, 2012 at 22:18 GMT		1 point
	basically any book that gets popular is banned for one reason or another, apparently. and then their status as "highly challenged" or "banned" inflates people's opinions of them even further. great.

	el2lk:	May 31st, 2012 at 22:24 GMT		2 points
	what about The Giver?

	deuce221:	May 31st, 2012 at 22:29 GMT		9 points
	Apparently "a bit of the old ultra-violence" is not as offensive as profanity. Huh.

	doggielover2579:	May 31st, 2012 at 22:42 GMT		1 point
	Where's the Light in the Attic?

	Lprdgecko:	May 31st, 2012 at 23:01 GMT		2 points
	This quickly turned into a quiz of me guessing all of the books I had to read in high school...