Banned Books List from the American Library Association

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The book is a humorous, coming‑of‑age adventure that follows Huck Finn as he slips away from the Widow…

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete

Mark Twain

The work is a humorous bildungsroman that follows the misadventures of Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy in a…

Ulysses

James Joyce

James Joyce’s Ulysses is a densely layered work of literary fiction that foregrounds city and town life,…

The call of the wild

Jack London

Jack London’s story opens in the lush, sun‑kissed estate of Judge Miller, where the massive St.

The King James Version of the Bible

The King James Version of the Bible presents the sacred scriptures in the language of early‑17th‑century…

The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories

Kate Chopin

The Awakening and Selected Short Stories is a late‑19th‑century work that places its characters in the…

The Jungle

Upton Sinclair

The novel opens in a bustling back‑room of a Chicago saloon, where a Lithuanian wedding is in full swing.

Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence

The novel is an autobiographical work of domestic fiction set in a nineteenth‑century English mining…

Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence

Little Black Sambo

Helen Bannerman