Banned Books

Why: Conflicts with values of the community.

Why: Too depressing

Summary: A story of loyalty and courage, love and defeat, and the tragic death of an ideal. Robert Jordan, a young American in the International Brigades, is attached to an antifascist guerilla unit in the mountains of Spain.
Why: Graphic violence
Hemingway won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Why: Promotes Homosexuality

Why: Criticism of the church, obscene language, sexual content.

Why: Conflicts with values of the community.

Why: Anti-christian, violence

Why: Satanic

Why: Violence, sexuality, profanity

Why: Banned under the US Federal Anti-Obscenity Act (AKA Comstock Law).

Why: Graphic language

Why: Racial/Ethnic, Political/Economic/Social Opinion, Language; Offensive Language.

Why: Sick

Why: promotion of drug use, portrayal of anthropomorphized animals.

Why: Undermines religious beliefs.

Why: Racially offensive. Racism, insensitivity and offensive language--The Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2002.

Why: Sexually explicit; doesn't represent traditional values. Sexual content, racism, offensive language, violence and being unsuited to age group. One of the Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2002.

Why: Immoral; Conflicts with values of the community.

Why: Contained the words “god damn.”

Why: Sexually graphic and violent.

Why: occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit

Summary: Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old Black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others—prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
Why: profanity, sexual references, and materials deemed unsuitable for students.
Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature

Why: Sexually explicit, degrading to blacks

Why: Encourages homosexuality.