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