“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde

“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.” Lawrence Peter

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.” Clare Booth Luce

“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” Mark Twain

1. The Naked and the Dead by Normal Mailer (disgusting)

2. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

3. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

4. Native Son by Richard Wright (sexually graphic and violent; unnecessarily violent and sexually explicit; graphic language and sexual content)

5. The Natural by Bernard Malamud

6. Needful Things by Stephen King

7. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich (pattern of being anti-Christian)

8. The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad

9. Nothing New on the Waterfront by Erich Maria Remarque

10. Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

11. The Odyssey by Homer (Plato suggested expurgating it for immature readers (387 B.C.) and Caligula tried to suppress it because it expressed Greek ideals of freedom.)

12. Oedipus Rex by Sophocles

13. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (full of racism, profanity, and foul language; profanity; racial slurs, profanity, violence, and does not represent traditional values; profane, violent, not traditional)

14. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (violates the rights of children)

15. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (political)

16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (vulgar language, sexual explicitness, or violent imagery gratuitously employed)

17. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (garbage being passed off as literature; profane language; sexual explicitness)

18. On the Banks of Plum Creek by Laura Ingalls Wilder

19. On the Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin (teaches evolution)

20. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

21. Ordinary People by Judith Guest

22. Oscar Wilde by Jeff Nunokawa (gay and lesbian themes)

23. Other Christian Holy Writs

24. Other Jewish Holy Writs

25. Other Muslim Holy Writs

26. Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective

27. The Outline of History by H.G. Wells

28. Outside Over There by Maurice Sendak

29. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

30. The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

31. Paradise Lost by John Milton

32. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky (homosexuality, sexually explicit, offensive language, and unsuited to age group)

33. Pet Sematary by Stephen King

34. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

35. Prince of Tides by Paul Zindel

36. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

37. Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong by Mao Zedong

38. The Qur’an (banned on religious grounds; “doesn’t appear to be Christian”)

39. Rabbit Run by John Updike

40. Rage by Stephen King

41. Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow

42. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry (in response to criticism from an anti-pornography organization; degrading to African Americans)

43. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck (filthy trashy sex novel)

44. The Regulators by Stephen King

45. The Relatives Came by Cynthia Rylant (grandfather has a tattoo)

46. The Revolt of Modern Youth by Benjamin Barr Lindsey

47. Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl

48. Richard III by William Shakespeare

49. The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine (treasonous)

50. The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck (profane language clashed with Christian values)

51. The Road to October by Josef Stalin

52. Roadwork by Stephen King

53. The Rolling Stone History of Rock and Roll by Jim Miller, Ed. (will cause our children to become immoral and indecent)

54. Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor (depiction of Southern racism; inappropriate; racial bias)

55. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

56. A Room With a View by E.M. Forster

57. The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lea Block

58. Rose Madder by Stephen King

59. Rumble Fish by S.E. Hinton

60. Rumpelstiltskin

61. Sanctuary by William Faulkner

62. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie (criticism of Islam; banned in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalis, Sudan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Qatar, Indonesia, South Africa, and India; burned in West Yorkshire, England; in Pakistan, five people died in riots against the book; Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or religious edict, stating, “I inform the proud Muslim people of the world that the author of the Satanic Verses, which is against Islam, the prophet and the Koran and all those involved in its publication who were aware of its content, have been sentenced to death;” blasphemous to the prophet Mohammed; in Venezuela, owning or reading it was declared a crime under penalty of 15 month imprisonment; Hitoshi Igarashi, the Japanese translator, was stabbed to death; Ettore Capriolo, the Italian translator, was seriously wounded; William Nygaard, its Norwegian publisher, was shot and seriously injured)

63. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (too frank and revealing)

64. Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz (occult/Satanism, unsuited to age group, violence, and insensitivity)

65. Scary Stories to Tell In the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (scary; “This book goes far beyond other scary books”; violence and cannibalism; unacceptably violent; shows the dark side of religion through the occult, the devil, and Satanism)

66. Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz (scary; violence and subject matter; unacceptably violent for children)

67. Schindler’s List by Thomas Keneally

68. School Girls by Peggy Orenstein

69. The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis

70. Search For Truth in History by David Irving

71. A Separate Peace by John Knowles (filthy, trashy sex novel; offensive language; graphic language)

72. A Series of Unfortunate Events (the series) by Lemony Snicket

73. The Shining by Stephen King

74. Shogun by James Clavell

75. Silas Marner by George Eliot (scandalous)

76. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares

77. Slaughterhouse Five, or, The Children’s Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut (too violent; rife with profanity and explicit sex; vulgar language, violent imagery and sexual content; contains and makes reference to religious matters; foul language, a reference to ‘Magic Fingers’ attached to the protagonist’s bed to help him sleep, and the sentence: “The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the fly of God Almighty.”)

78. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty; Beauty’s Punishment; Beauty’s Release by Anne Rice (*penname A.N. Roquelaure) (pornographic)

79. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson (parents need more information)

80. Socialism in Theory and Practice by Morris Hillquist

81. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison (contains language degrading to blacks, and is sexually explicit)

82. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

83. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron (sexual content)

84. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner

85. Sounder by William Howard Armstrong (use of the word ‘nigger?and the word ‘boy?

86. The State and Revolution by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (subversive)

87. Stones From the River by Ursula Hegi

88. Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman

89. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein (parents need more information)

90. The Stupids by Harry Allard and James Marshall (children shouldn’t refer to anyone as ’stupid’; undermines the authority of parents)

91. The Stupids Have a Ball by Harry Allard and James Marshall (reinforces negative behavior and low self-esteem)

92. The Stupids Step Out by Harry Allard and James Marshall (describes families in a derogatory manner and might encourage children to disobey their parents; includes disrespectful language; makes parents look like boobs and undermines authority)

93. The Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

94. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

95. Superfudge by Judy Blume

96. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (characters are animals and police are pigs)

97. The Talisman by Stephen King

98. The Talmud (religious grounds; godless writing)

99. Tartuffe by Moliere

100. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

101. Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

102. This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff (vulgar language, sexual explicitness, violent imagery gratuitously employed)

103. A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (no literary value)

104. Three Billy Goats Gruff by Peter C. Asbjornsen

105. Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll

106. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

107. A Time to Kill by John Grisham

108. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (racial slurs; degrading to African Americans; uses the word ‘nigger? represents institutionalized racism under the guise of ‘good literature’; conflicted with the values of the community)

109. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

110. Tommyknockers by Stephen King

111. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

112. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare (alternate lifestyle instruction; has the effect of encouraging or supporting homosexuality as a positive lifestyle alternative)

113. Ulysses by James Joyce (barred from the U.S. as obscene)

114. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (contains the word ‘nigger?

115. The Valley of the Horses by Jean Auel

116. Vasalissa the Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales (violence, voodoo, and cannibalism)

117. Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle and Glenn Murray (use of the words fart and farting 24 times)

118. Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (capitalist concepts)

119. Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary (objectionable language; obscene words)

120. Welcome To the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut (promoted the killing off of elderly people and free sex)

121. Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts (not appropriate for younger schoolmates)

122. Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (suggests drug use, the occult, suicide, death, violence, disrespect for truth, disrespect for legitimate authority, rebellion against parents; a poem titled ‘Dreadful?talks about how “someone ate the baby”; promotes cannibalism; silly poems will incite children to mutiny; see A Light In the Attic)

123. Willa Cather by Sharon O’Brien

124. Winds of Change by Reza Pahlavi (political)

125. Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

126. The Witches by Roald Dahl (conflicts with religious and moral beliefs; “the children misbehave and take retribution on the adults and there’s never, ever a consequence for their actions”; “too sophisticated and did not teach moral values”; satanic; could desensitize children to crimes related to witchcraft; depicts witches as ordinary-looking women; could entice impressionable children into becoming involved in the occult; use of the word ’slut’; “the boy is turned into a mouse by the witches and will have to stay a mouse for the rest of his life.”)

127. Wizard of Oz by Frank Baum

128. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

129. Women On Top by Nancy Friday

130. The Works of Aristotle

131. The Works of Bertolt Brecht

132. The Works of Sigmund Freud

133. The Works of Plato

134. The Works of Socrates

135. The World According to Garp by John Irving

136. The World’s Illusion by Jakob Wasserman

137. Worlds in Collision by Immanuel Velikovsky (controversial version of the origins of our solar system)

138. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (sends a mixed signal to children about good and evil; objected to listing the name of Jesus Christ together with the names of great artists, philosophers, scientists and religious leaders when referring to defenders of Earth against evil; undermines religious beliefs; the story promotes witchcraft, crystal balls, and demons)