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To Kill a Mockingbird (To Kill a Mockingbird, #1)
by (shelved 453 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,199,207 ratings — published 1960
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 418 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,568,758 ratings — published 1951
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 354 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,539,350 ratings — published 1953
1984 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 349 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,845,048 ratings — published 1949
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 343 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,341,369 ratings — published 1932
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,133,088 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,521,348 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 278 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,068,472 ratings — published 1969
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 276 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.87 — 1,829,154 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 264 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.47 — 6,445,029 ratings — published 1997
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 260 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 483,325 ratings — published 1982
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Paperback)
by (shelved 257 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,172,200 ratings — published 1999
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
by (shelved 254 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,107,053 ratings — published 1876
The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1)
by (shelved 252 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,303,096 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 625,063 ratings — published 1955
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 238 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,648,834 ratings — published 1993
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 238 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,509,164 ratings — published 1925
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.11 — 214,845 ratings — published 2007
Catch-22 (Catch-22, #1)
by (shelved 216 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.98 — 691,346 ratings — published 1961
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 216 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 299,516 ratings — published 1987
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 214 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.96 — 707,362 ratings — published 1939
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 194 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 562,473 ratings — published 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 193 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 600,353 ratings — published 1962
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 193 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.23 — 370,922 ratings — published 1969
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 182 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,004,646 ratings — published 1962
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 180 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,550,968 ratings — published 1947
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.50 — 93,950 ratings — published 1928
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 173 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 415,905 ratings — published 1977
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 170 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,012,975 ratings — published 2008
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter, #2)
by (shelved 169 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.42 — 2,499,812 ratings — published 1998
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter, #3)
by (shelved 165 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,547,298 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter, #4)
by (shelved 163 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.56 — 2,375,298 ratings — published 2000
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 162 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,040,173 ratings — published 2005
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,279,320 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5)
by (shelved 156 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,313,365 ratings — published 2003
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 155 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.62 — 2,617,135 ratings — published 2007
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter, #6)
by (shelved 153 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.57 — 2,254,581 ratings — published 2005
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 226,544 ratings — published 1971
Gone with the Wind (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 151 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,031,571 ratings — published 1936
The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)
by (shelved 149 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.48 — 38,620 ratings — published 1974
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.90 — 179,394 ratings — published 1970
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 143 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.07 — 491,697 ratings — published 1965
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.02 — 468,450 ratings — published 1999
The Outsiders (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 867,449 ratings — published 1967
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 133 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.73 — 104,125 ratings — published 1922
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 132 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.86 — 311,824 ratings — published 1903
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.91 — 243,443 ratings — published 1937
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.68 — 59,367 ratings — published 1934
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.71 — 50,900 ratings — published 1988
The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1)
by (shelved 119 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,212,934 ratings — published 1995
“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.”
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“Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.”
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