Banned Books Week 2003

The St. Charles Public Library DOES NOT BAN these books or any others.

Of The Modern Library’s Best 100 Novels of the Twentieth Century, 34 have been banned or challenged at some time in their printed life*, including:

Ulysses - James Joyce
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
1984 - George Orwell
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Native Son - Richard Wright
Appointment in Samarra - John O’Hara
Studs Lonigan - James T. Farrell
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
All The King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Deliverance - James Dickey
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
From Here to Eternity - James Jones
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Sophie’s Choice - William Styron

*from American Libraries, Sept. 1998