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Banned Books Week
National Hispanic Heritage Month
About Banned Books Week:
Observed during the last week of September each year since 1982,
Banned Books Week reminds Americans not to take their right to
free speech for granted. This celebration honors the freedom to
express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered
unorthodox or unpopular, stressing the importance of ensuring
the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to
all who wish to read them.
Resources:
Click
here for a Teacher's Guide on Censorship.
Click here
for a downloadable copy of RHI: Censorship & Banned Books.
The American Library
Association's Banned Books Week website offers information
about intellectual freedom and a list of frequently asked questions.
The Online
Books Page offers a list of banned books, and details the
reasons they were censored.
Click
here for a list of banned books from Melville House.
List of banned books published by Random House:
Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn, The by Mark Twain
Adventures
of Tom Sawyer, The by Mark Twain
All
Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
American
Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Arabian
Nights translated by Richard Burton
As
I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Autobiography
of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Awakening,
The by Kate Chopin
Beloved
by Toni Morrison
Bluest
Eye, The by Toni Morrison
Call
of the Wild by Jack London
Candide
by Voltaire
Canterbury
Tales, The by Geoffrey Chaucer
Cider
House Rules, The by John Irving
Batman:
The Dark Knight Strikes Back by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley
Diary
of Anne Frank, The by Anne Frank
Fanny
Hill by John Cleland
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Go
Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin
Handmaid’s
Tale, The by Margaret Atwood
House
of the Spirits, The by Isabel Allende
I
Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In
Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Invisible
Man by Ralph Ellison
Jack
by A.M. Homes
Lady
Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves
of Grass by Walt Whitman
Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov
Merchant
of Venice, The by William Shakespeare
Norwegian
Wood by Haruki Murakami
Oliver
Twist by Charles Dickens
One
Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Origin
of the Species by Charles Darwin
Portnoy’s
Complaint by Phillip Roth
A
Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Pride
of Baghdad by Brian K. Vaughan and Niko Henrichon
Sandman
Vol. 1, The by Neil Gaiman
Silas
Marner by George Eliot
Song
of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse
Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Tarzan
of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Twelfth
Night by William Shakespeare
Uncle
Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Ulysses
by James Joyce
V
for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd
Watchmen
by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
American
Chica by Marie Arana
Bodega
Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez
Bordering
Fires edited by Cristina Garcia
Contemporary
Latin American Short Stories edited by Pat McNees
Down
These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
Dreaming
in Cuban by Cristina Garcia
Enrique's
Journey by Sonia Nazario
House
on Mango Street, The by Sandra Cisneros
Hunger
of Memory by Richard Rodriguez
Last
of the Menu Girls, The by Denise Chavez
Latin
American Heroes by Jerome Adams
Latin
American Writers at Work by Paris Review
Loosing
My Espanish by H.G. Carrillo
Mongrels,
Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds by Gregory Rodriguez
Monkey
Hunting by Cristina Garcia
La
sabiduria de los nuestros by Yvonne Conde
Short
Stories by Latin American Women edited by Celia Correas Zapata
Squatter
and the Don, The by Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton
Underdogs,
The by Mariano Azuela
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