Banned Books Week

CELEBRATE THE FREEDOM TO THINK—BY READING
September 25-October 2, 2010
This year will mark the 29th annual celebration of Banned Books Week.

Classics That Have Been Banned or Challenged:

• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
• The Color Purple by Alice Walker
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Lord of the Flies by William Golding
• The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Where can you find more information on why a particular book was banned?

• Visit the Roberts library and ask a librarian. 
• E-mail the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom to ask about a specific book. A staff member will reply with any information the office has on file. Please limit your inquiry to one book.
• See Banned and Challenged Classics.