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The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.
- Amy Tan

Between 1961 and 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States.

List of books banned by governments
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Many societies have banned certain books. This is a partial list of books which have been banned by some organisation at some place and time.

Various scriptures have been banned (and sometimes burned) at several points in history. The Bible, the Qur'an, and the Torah have all been subjected to censorship and have been banned in various cities and countries.

This list is incomplete

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
The Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
All I Need Is Love by Klaus Kinski
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Anastasia Krupnik by Lois Lowry
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
The Arabian Nights
Are You There, God? It's Me Margaret by Judy Blume
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
The Banditti of the Plains by A. S. Mercer
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Blubber by Judy Blume
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Brimstone and Treacle by Dennis Potter (BBC television version banned by the BBC)
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Call of the Wild by Jack London
Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce
Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
The Case for India by Will Durant
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Children of Sanchez by Oscar Lewis
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Das Kapital by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Decameron by Boccaccio
Deenie by Judy Blume
Did Six Million Really Die? by Ernst Zündel
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak [1]
Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Dubliners by James Joyce
Earth's Children (series) by Jean M. Auel
E for Ecstasy by Nicholas Saunders
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Fade by Robert Cormier
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
The Family by Ed Sanders
Family Limitation by Margaret Sanger
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Fanny Hill by John Cleland
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Goats by Brock Cole
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
Guess What? by Mem Fox
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesléa Newman
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca
Howl by Allen Ginsberg
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Jack by A.M. Homes
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso
Jenny lives with Eric and Martin by Susanne Bösche
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Kiki's Memoirs by Alice Prim (Kiki de Montparnasse
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
King Lear by William Shakespeare
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Love by Toni Morrison
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Magnum Crimen by Viktor Novak
The Making of a Godol by Nathan Kamenetsky
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
The Monk by Matthew Lewis
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Mountain Wreath by Petar II Petrovi? Njego?
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
My Secret Life by 'Walter'
Naree by Humayun Azad (English: "Woman")[2]
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Native Son by Richard Wright
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
The Nigger of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One of the Guys by Robert Clark Young
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Friend The King by Gilles Perrault
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Pernkopf's Anatomy by Eduard Pernkopf
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Private Parts by Howard Stern
The Provincial Letters by Blaise Pascal
The Qu'ran: The Early Revelations by Michael Anthony Sells
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Sex by Madonna
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
Sexual Revolution in South Africa: The Pink Agenda: The Ruin of the Family by Christine McCafferty and Peter Hammond
Show Me! by Will McBride
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
The Spanish Labyrinth by Gerald Brenan
Spycatcher by Peter Wright
The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
The Stupids (series) by Harry Allard
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Green
Teleny, sometimes attributed to Oscar Wilde
The Terrorist by Caroline B. Cooney
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, père
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Ulysses by James Joyce
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
What's Happening to My Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies by Nancy Friday
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca

As for me, I have read 45 of the books listed above. So glad that in my life, Farenheit 451 is just another book.