At last, an internet meme that's actually significant! These, apparently, are the 110 most banned books (somewhere, presumably in the US). Make the ones you've read in full bold. Make the ones you've read in part italic. I've underlined the cases where I don't quite remember if I have read them myself or if I've become acquainted with them through citation or adaptation (in one variant, you must underline the ones you'd like to read, but I was more interested in the "uuuhhhhh" ones):

#1 The Bible #2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain #3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes

4 The Koran

#5 Arabian Nights

6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift #8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (Prologue) - I've read the Prologue in full but not all the tales. #9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne #10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman #11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank #14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert #15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker

18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin

19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding -- I'm going to, Adam, honest.

20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne

21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin -- I'm going to, Adam, honest.

#25 Ulysses by James Joyce #26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio #27 Animal Farm by George Orwell #28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell #29 Candide by Voltaire

30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

31 Analects by Confucius

#32 Dubliners by James Joyce

33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

35 Red and the Black by Stendhal

36 Das Kapital by Karl Marx

37 Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire

#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle #39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence #40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair

44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding

47 Diary by Samuel Pepys

48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy #50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey #54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus

55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

57 Color Purple by Alice Walker

58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke

60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck

#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau

#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

69 The Talmud

70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau

71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

75 Separate Peace by John Knowles

76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck

78 Popol Vuh

79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith - Why is this banned?

80 Satyricon by Petronius

#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl #82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

83 Black Boy by Richard Wright

84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu

85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

87 Metaphysics by Aristotle

88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder

89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin

90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse

91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene

92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner

#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin

95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown

#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines

102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau

103 Nana by Emile Zola

104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin

#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - Only very small bits, mind. Basically I've leafed through my father's copy. #107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark

110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Looks like I've read more from the very most banned than from the tail of the list.

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