168 books
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72 voters
Banned Books
Showing 1-50 of 4,326
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 425 times as banned)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,946,598 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 402 times as banned)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,541,830 ratings — published 1948
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 397 times as banned)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,922,766 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 375 times as banned)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,876,366 ratings — published 1953
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 374 times as banned)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,459,956 ratings — published 1985
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 347 times as banned)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,617,913 ratings — published 1945
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 309 times as banned)
avg rating 4.13 — 306,493 ratings — published 1970
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 302 times as banned)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,096,636 ratings — published 1932
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as banned)
avg rating 4.28 — 757,981 ratings — published 1982
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 282 times as banned)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,864,596 ratings — published 1937
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 274 times as banned)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,018,450 ratings — published 1999
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 267 times as banned)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,832,248 ratings — published 1993
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as banned)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,298 ratings — published 1954
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 252 times as banned)
avg rating 4.05 — 285,975 ratings — published 2007
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as banned)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,522,605 ratings — published 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 243 times as banned)
avg rating 4.30 — 586,031 ratings — published 1969
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 237 times as banned)
avg rating 3.98 — 496,199 ratings — published 1987
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 218 times as banned)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,493,978 ratings — published 1969
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 218 times as banned)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,349 ratings — published 1955
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as banned)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,020,105 ratings — published 2017
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 209 times as banned)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,227,143 ratings — published 1947
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 204 times as banned)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,342,344 ratings — published 1885
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 192 times as banned)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,758,306 ratings — published 2005
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as banned)
avg rating 4.05 — 634,591 ratings — published 1999
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as banned)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,974,741 ratings — published 1925
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 179 times as banned)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,007,048 ratings — published 2008
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as banned)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,805 ratings — published 2020
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 175 times as banned)
avg rating 4.00 — 775,887 ratings — published 1962
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as banned)
avg rating 4.27 — 79,123 ratings — published 2019
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as banned)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,002,110 ratings — published 1939
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 160 times as banned)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,515,977 ratings — published 1997
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as banned)
avg rating 3.99 — 891,184 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as banned)
avg rating 4.20 — 784,200 ratings — published 1962
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 135 times as banned)
avg rating 4.06 — 593,667 ratings — published 1977
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 133 times as banned)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,293,420 ratings — published 1962
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as banned)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,027,997 ratings — published 2007
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as banned)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,625,402 ratings — published 1967
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as banned)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,175 ratings — published 2005
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as banned)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,374,659 ratings — published 2005
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as banned)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,257 ratings — published 1988
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as banned)
avg rating 3.50 — 139,068 ratings — published 1928
Forever... (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as banned)
avg rating 3.62 — 67,930 ratings — published 1975
Nineteen Minutes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as banned)
avg rating 4.18 — 425,769 ratings — published 2007
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 102 times as banned)
avg rating 3.95 — 257,117 ratings — published 1970
Out of Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as banned)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,786 ratings — published 2016
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as banned)
avg rating 4.16 — 156,027 ratings — published 2004
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as banned)
avg rating 3.99 — 390,458 ratings — published 1937
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as banned)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,865 ratings — published 2015
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as banned)
avg rating 3.73 — 293,269 ratings — published 1971
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