Books Banned for Profanity
9 books · 457 total challenges
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racial injustice in the American South, challenged for its use of racial...
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger's classic novel about teenage alienation, the most censored book in American high schools from 1961 to 198...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain's 1884 novel about a boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi River, one of the most banned books in Ameri...
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck's Depression-era novella about two migrant workers, challenged for profanity, racial slurs, and its portr...
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats, ban...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's memoir of growing up Black in the Jim Crow South, challenged for its depiction of childhood sexual assaul...
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls' memoir of growing up with dysfunctional, nomadic parents, challenged for depictions of alcoholism, sexu...
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel about a future where books are burned by the government — itself repeatedly banned and ce...
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell's young adult love story set in 1986 Omaha, challenged for profanity, sexual content, and being 'too matu...