 | 1984 (Signet Classics) by George Orwell
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.89 Challenged in the Jackson County, Fla. (1981) because the novel is "pro-communist and contained explicit sexual matter."
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 | The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.00 Removed from the seventh grade curriculum in the West Chester, Pa. schools (1994) after parents complained that it is too full of racially charged language.
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $0.65 Banned in China (1931) for portraying animals and humans on the same level, "Animals should not use human language."
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 | The Analects (Penguin Classics) by Confucius
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $3.00 The first ruler of the Chin Dynasty ordered all books relating to the teachings of Confucius burned.
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 | Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections) by Geraldine McCaughrean
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.00 It was confiscated in Cairo, Egypt (1985), on the grounds that it contained obscene passages which posed a threat to the country's moral fabric.
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 | Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $1.99 |
 | The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
Buy new: $8.00 / Used from: $2.98 |
 | The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Buy new: $9.79 / Used from: $3.96 |
 | The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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 | The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Brothers Grimm
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $1.89 |
 | A Doll's House (Dover Thrift Editions) by Henrik Ibsen
Buy new: $1.50 / Used from: $0.01 Four members of the Alabama State Textbook Committe (1983) called for the rejection of this work because it propagates feminist views.
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 | Don Quixote by Miguel De Cervantes
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $5.95 Placed on the Index in Madrid for the sentence, "Works of charity negligently performed are of no worth."
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 | The Egypt Game by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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 | Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.12 |
 | Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Buy new: $12.96 / Used from: $7.56 |
 | The Grapes of Wrath (Centennial Edition) by John Steinbeck
Buy new: $11.05 / Used from: $4.71 |
 | Grendel by John Gardner
Buy new: $9.32 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Gulliver's Travels (Signet Classics) by Jonathan Swift
Buy used from: $0.01 Denounced as wicked and obscene in Ireland (1726), which was no doubt the effect Swift was going for.
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 | The Happy Prince and Other Fairy Tales (Dover Juvenile Classics) by Oscar Wilde
Buy new: $2.50 / Used from: $0.01 Challenged at the Springfield, Oreg. Public Library (1988) because the stories were "distressing and morbid."
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 | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Buy used from: $0.01 This book gets challenged quite often, due to the poet's descriptions of being raped as a young girl.
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 | The Qur'an (Oxford World's Classics)
Buy used from: $5.29 Ban lifted by the Spanish Index in 1790. Restricted to students of history in the USSR (1926).
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 | Le Morte D'Arthur: King Arthur and the Legends of the Round Table (Signet Classics) by Sir Thomas Malory
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.49 Challenged as required reading at the Pulaski County High School in Somerset, Ky. (1997) because it is "junk."
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 | The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (The Chronicles of Narnia) by C. S. Lewis
Buy used from: $0.01 Challenged in the Howard County, Md. school system (1990) because it depicts "graphic violence, mysticism, and gore."
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 | Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
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 | The Martian Chronicles (The Grand Master Editions) by Ray Bradbury
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | My Friend Flicka by Mary O'hara
Buy new: $11.86 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Odyssey: The Fitzgerald Translation by Homer
Buy new: $9.23 / Used from: $2.00 Plato suggested expurgating it for immature readers (387 B.C.) and Caligula tried to suppress it because it expressed Greek ideals of freedom.
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 | The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Buy used from: $8.42 Banned from Trinity College in Cambridge, UK (1859); Yugoslavia (1935); Greece (1937). The teaching of evolution was prohibited in Tennessee from 1925-1967.
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 | Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $5.70 Listed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in Rome (1758).
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 | A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Buy new: $7.00 / Used from: $1.99 The Ogden, Utah School District (1979) restricted circulation of Hansberry's play in response to criticism from an anti-pornography organization.
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 | The Satanic Verses: A Novel (Bestselling Backlist) by Salman Rushdie
Buy used from: $1.00 |
 | Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.99 |
 | To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare
Buy new: $16.34 / Used from: $11.99 |
 | Uncle Tom's Cabin (Wordsworth Classics) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $0.46 Challenged in the Waukegan, Ill. School District (1984) because the novel contains the word "nigger."
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 | Vasilissa the Beautiful (Creative Short Stories) by Post Wheeler
Buy used from: $2.85 Challenged at the Mena, Ark. schools (1990) because the book contains "violence, voodoo, and cannibalism."
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 | Welcome to the Monkey House: Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $5.95 |
 | A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $1.99 |
| Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings of D. T. Suzuki by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Buy used from: $0.38 |
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