Banned Books Week Sept. 25-Oct. 2, 2010

List of Banned Books prepared by AARP for American Library Association's Banned Books Week. Exercise your rights to read anything you please and to own any written matter you please. German Nazis burned books not only to destroy a culture, but to destroy one's right to read and to control one's thoughts.

TOO POLITICAL:

1. Uncle Tom's Cabin

2. All Quite on the Western Front

3. A Farewell to Arms

4. The Grapes of Wrath

5. For Whom the Bell Tolls

6. Animal Farm

7. 1984

8. Doctor Zhivago

9. Slaughterhouse-Five

10. In the Spirit of Crazy Horse

TOO MUCH SEX:

1. Madame Bovary

2. Tess of the d'Urbervilles

3. Ulysses

4. The Sun Also Rises

5. Lady Chatterley's Lover

6. Tropic of Cancer

7. Lolita

8. Peyton Place

9. Rabbit, Run

10. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

11. Jaws

12. Forever

13. The Prince of Tides

14. Beloved

15. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents

IRRELIGIOUS

1. On the Origin of Species

2. The Lord of the Rings trilogy

3. The Last Temptation of Christ

4. Bless Me, Ultima

5. Harry Potter series

SOCIALLY OFFENSIVE

1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

2. The Scarlet Letter

3. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

4. As I Lay Dying

5. Brave New World

6. Gone With the Wind

7. Of Mice and Men

8. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

9. The Catcher in the Rye

10. Fahrenheit 451

11. To Kill a Mockingbird

12. James and the Giant Peach

13. Catch-22

14. A Clockwork Orange

15. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

16. In Cold Blood

17. Cujo

18. The Color Purple

19. Ordinary People

20. A Thousand Acres