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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 414 times as banned)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,890,802 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 390 times as banned)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,896,317 ratings — published 1951
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 389 times as banned)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,467,939 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 366 times as banned)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,425,934 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 363 times as banned)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,840,472 ratings — published 1953
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as banned)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,556,970 ratings — published 1945
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as banned)
avg rating 4.13 — 301,344 ratings — published 1970
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as banned)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,078,735 ratings — published 1932
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 281 times as banned)
avg rating 4.28 — 752,667 ratings — published 1982
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as banned)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,838,372 ratings — published 1937
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as banned)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,002,659 ratings — published 1999
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 262 times as banned)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,810,023 ratings — published 1993
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 251 times as banned)
avg rating 4.06 — 284,997 ratings — published 2007
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as banned)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,202,761 ratings — published 1954
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 243 times as banned)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,495,783 ratings — published 2003
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 239 times as banned)
avg rating 4.30 — 581,253 ratings — published 1969
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 232 times as banned)
avg rating 3.98 — 490,912 ratings — published 1987
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 216 times as banned)
avg rating 3.87 — 946,287 ratings — published 1955
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as banned)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,012,173 ratings — published 2017
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 213 times as banned)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,484,159 ratings — published 1969
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 203 times as banned)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,195,782 ratings — published 1947
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 202 times as banned)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,337,435 ratings — published 1885
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as banned)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,749,606 ratings — published 2005
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as banned)
avg rating 4.05 — 631,831 ratings — published 1999
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 176 times as banned)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,921,638 ratings — published 1925
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 175 times as banned)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,919,049 ratings — published 2008
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 172 times as banned)
avg rating 4.00 — 770,115 ratings — published 1962
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 168 times as banned)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,116 ratings — published 2020
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 166 times as banned)
avg rating 4.03 — 994,939 ratings — published 1939
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as banned)
avg rating 4.27 — 78,404 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 159 times as banned)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,422,744 ratings — published 1997
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as banned)
avg rating 3.99 — 887,117 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 135 times as banned)
avg rating 4.20 — 780,346 ratings — published 1962
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 135 times as banned)
avg rating 4.06 — 590,543 ratings — published 1977
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 132 times as banned)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,286,004 ratings — published 1962
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 130 times as banned)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,025,260 ratings — published 2007
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as banned)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,604,972 ratings — published 1967
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as banned)
avg rating 4.36 — 14,116 ratings — published 2005
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as banned)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,363,419 ratings — published 2005
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as banned)
avg rating 3.71 — 71,820 ratings — published 1988
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as banned)
avg rating 3.50 — 137,934 ratings — published 1928
Forever... (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as banned)
avg rating 3.62 — 67,570 ratings — published 1975
Nineteen Minutes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as banned)
avg rating 4.18 — 421,895 ratings — published 2007
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 99 times as banned)
avg rating 4.16 — 155,400 ratings — published 2004
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as banned)
avg rating 3.99 — 386,734 ratings — published 1937
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 98 times as banned)
avg rating 3.95 — 255,957 ratings — published 1970
Out of Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 97 times as banned)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,719 ratings — published 2016
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as banned)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,773 ratings — published 2015
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as banned)
avg rating 3.73 — 292,187 ratings — published 1971
“It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.”
― The Library at Night
― The Library at Night
“Electricity should not be banned, it just needs much better government regulation and understanding by the medical profession of the full range of toxicity that it presents to the human.”
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