Can you name the 42 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, 42 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)BookAuthor
Profanity/SexF. Scott Fitzgerald
Profanity/Sex/Alcohol J.D. Salinger
Profanity/SexJohn Steinbeck
Profanity/Racial SlursHarper Lee
Profanity/Sex/Racial IssuesAlice Walker
UnlistedJames Joyce
Violence/Sex/ProfanityToni Morrison
Violence/Profanity/Racial SlursWilliam Golding
Sex/'Pro-Communism'George Orwell
SexVladmir Nabokov
Profanity/Racial SlursJohn Steinbeck
ProfanityJoseph Heller
Sex/DrugsAldous Huxley
UnlistedErnest Hemingway
Profanity/SexWilliam Faulkner
SexErnest Hemingway
UnlistedJoseph Conrad
Profanity/SexZora Neale Hurston
Profanity/Violence/SexRalph Ellison
Sex/Racial IssuesToni Morrison
Racial Issues/Racial SlursMargaret Mitchell
Primary Reason(s)BookAuthor
Profanity/Sex/ViolenceRichard Wright
Sex/ViolenceKen Kesey
Profanity/Sex/Religious IssuesKurt Vonnegut
Unlisted (Declared non-mailable)Ernest Hemingway
UnlistedJack London
Profanity/SexJames Baldwin
UnlistedRobert Penn Warren
UnlistedUpton Sinclair
Unlisted (Sex)D.H. Lawrence
ProfanityAnthony Burgess
Sex/Violence/ProfanityTruman Capote
Religious CriticismSalman Rushdie
SexD.H. Lawrence
UnlistedKurt Vonnegut
ProfanityJohn Knowles
Profanity/ObscenityWilliam S. Burroughs
ObscenityD.H. Lawrence
UnlistedNorman Mailer
ObscenityHenry Miller
SexTheodore Dreiser
Sex/ProfanityJohn Updike
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