The American Library Association states that out of the 100 novels most widely recognized as the “Greatest of All Time,” 42 have been banned, and banned often. They are:

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald; 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; Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov; Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck; Catch-22, Joseph Heller; Brave New World, Aldous Huxley; The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway; As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner; A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway; Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad; Their Eyes were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston; Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison; Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison; Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell; Native Son, Richard Wright; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey; Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut; For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway; The Call of the Wild, Jack London; Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin; All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren; The Jungle, Upton Sinclair; Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence; A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess; In Cold Blood, Truman Capote; Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie; Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence; Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut; A Separate Peace, John Knowles; Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs; Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence; The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer; Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller; An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser; Rabbit, Run, John Updike