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Banned Books Week 2003
 

Open Your Mind to a Banned Book

Celebrate Your Freedom To Read

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

2003 BBW logo Open Your Mind to a Banned Book

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

 

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