Illustration for Banned Books Week, sponsored by the American Library Association, 9/24/2012 through 10/0/2012.
Books that have been banned or challenged include: The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger; The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck; To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee; The Color Purple, Alice Walker; Ulysses, James Joyce; Beloved, Toni Morrison; The Lord of the Flies, William Golding; 1984, George Orwell.