Zeke Jarvis - Silenced in the Library ; Banned Books in America

SILENCED IN
THE LIBRARY

Banned Books in America

Zeke Jarvis

Copyright 2017 by ABC-CLIO, LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Jarvis, Zeke, author.

Title: Silenced in the library : banned books in America / Zeke Jarvis.

Description: Santa Barbara, California : Greenwood, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017004973 (print) | LCCN 2017032642 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440843952 (ebook) | ISBN 9781440843945 (hardcover : acid-free paper)

Subjects: LCSH: Challenged booksUnited StatesBibliography. | Prohibited booksUnited StatesBibliography. | LibrariesCensorshipUnited StatesHistory. | CensorshipUnited StatesHistory. | American literatureHistory and criticism. | Literature and societyUnited StatesHistory.

Classification: LCC Z1019 (ebook) | LCC Z1019 .J37 2017 (print) | DDC 098/.10973dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017004973

ISBN: 9781440843945
EISBN: 9781440843952

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1984, George Orwell

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain

All the Kings Men, Robert Penn Warren

American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis

An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser

The Anarchist Cookbook, William Powell

And Tango Makes Three, Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison

Annie on My Mind, Nancy Garden

Are You There, God? Its Me, Margaret, Judy Blume

Arizona Kid, Ronald Koertge

As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner

Asking about Sex and Growing Up, Joanna Cole

Athletic Shorts, Chris Crutcher

The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Malcolm X and Alex Haley

Batman: The Killing Joke, Alan Moore

Beloved, Toni Morrison

Black Boy, Richard Wright

Blankets, Craig Thompson

Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya

Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause

Blubber, Judy Blume

The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

The Boy Who Lost His Face, Louis Sachar

Boys and Sex/Girls and Sex, Wardell Pomeroy

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

The Bridge to Terabithia, Katherine Paterson

Bumps in the Night, Harry Allard

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown

The Call of the Wild, Jack London

Carrie, Stephen King

Captain Underpants (Series), Dav Pilkey

Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

Cats Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut

The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier

Christine, Stephen King

A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess

The Color of Earth, Kim Dong Hwa

The Color Purple, Alice Walker

Crazy Lady, Jane Leslie Conly

Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat, Alvin Schwartz

Cujo, Stephen King

Cut, Patricia McCormick

Daddys Roommate, Michael Willhoite

The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller

A Day No Pigs Would Die, Robert Peck

The Dead Zone, Stephen King

Deenie, Judy Blume

Detour for Emmy, Marilyn Reynolds

The Diary of Anne Frank, Anne Frank

Drive-By, Lynne Ewing

The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things, Carolyn Mackler

Earths Children (Series), Jean M. Auel

Empress of the World, Sara Ryan

The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty

Face on the Milk Carton, Caroline B. Cooney

Fade, Robert Cormier

Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury

Family Secrets, Klein, Norma

A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

Final Exit, Derek Humphry

Fun Home, Alison Bechdel

The Giver, Lois Lowry

Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

Goosebumps (Series), R.L. Stine

Go Ask Alice, Beatrice Sparks

The Goats, Brock Cole

The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson

The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood

Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh

Harry Potter (Series), J.K. Rowling

Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad

The Higher Power of Lucky, Susan Patron

How to Eat Fried Worms, Thomas Rockwell

Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg

The Hunger Games (Series), Suzanne Collins

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Maya Angelou

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote

In the Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak

Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison

It, Stephen King

Its Perfectly Normal/Its So Amazing, Robbie H. Harris

Jack, A.M. Homes

James and the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl

Julie of the Wolves, Jean Craighead George

The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

Junie B. Jones (Series), Barbara Park

Kaffir Boy, Mark Mathabane

Killing Mr. Griffin, Lois Duncan

Lady Chatterleys Lover, D.H. Lawrence

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Alan Moore

Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

A Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein

Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov

Lord of the Flies, William Golding

Maus, Art Spiegelman

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

Moby Dick, Herman Melville

My Brother Sam Is Dead, Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier

Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

One Flew over the Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey

The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton

Palomar (Series), Gilbert Hernandez

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky

The Power of One, Bryce Courtenay

Pride of Baghdad, Brian K. Vaughan

Private Parts, Howard Stern

Rabbit, Run, John Updike

The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence

Saga (Series), Brian K. Vaughan

The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne