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ALA's List Of Banned And Challenged Classic Books

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A Ralph Ellison novel was recently banned in Randolph County Schools. However, the school board overturned the ban during a meeting Wednesday night.

During the time the book was banned, critics of the school board's decision united to give students copies of the book.

This issue has been a focus of discussion among WFMY News 2 viewers on our Facebook page.

WFMY visited the American Library Association's website to see which classic books have been banned or challenged.

From ALA's website

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald 

The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger 

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck 

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee 

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker 

Ulysses, by James Joyce 

Beloved, by Toni Morrison 

The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding 

1984, by George Orwell 

Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov 

Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck 

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller 

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley 

Animal Farm, by George Orwell 

The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway 

As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner 

A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway 

Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston

Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison 

Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison 

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell 

Native Son, by Richard Wright 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut 

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway 

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London 

Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin 

All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren 

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien 

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair 

Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence 

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess 

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin 

In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote 

The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie  

Sophie's Choice, by William Styron 

Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence 

Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut 

A Separate Peace, by John Knowles 

Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs 

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh 

Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence 

The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer 

Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller 

An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser 

Rabbit, Run, by John Updike


Note: When this article was originally published, on Wednesday, WFMY News 2 incorrectly reported the book temporarily banned by Randolph County Schools. The story has been updated and corrected.

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