January/February 2024
Our Recommended Reading shelf for January and February brings together titles in our collection that have been banned or challenged in U.S. libraries over the last century.
Visit the third floor of Lauinger Library to see our exhibition and to borrow one of the books on display.
“Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.” Lyndon B. Johnson
Books on Display
A child called "it" : an abused child's journey from victim to victorHV883.C2 P45 1995
Pelzer, David J.
A clockwork orangePR6052.U638 C5 1972
Burgess, Anthony
A farewell to arms.PS3515.E37 F3 1949
Hemingway, Ernest
Adventures of Huckleberry FinnPS1305 .A1 1996c
Twain, Mark
All American boysPS3618.E9753 A645 2015
Reynolds, Jason
Always running : la vida loca, gang days in L.A.HV6439.U7 L77 1993
Rodriguez, Luis J.
An American tragedy.PS3507.R55 A53 1964
Dreiser, Theodore
Animal farmPR6029.R8 A8
Orwell, George
Are you there God? It's me, MargaretPS3552.L843 A74 1981
Blume, Judy
Arming America : the origins of a national gun cultureHV8059 .B45 2000
Bellesiles, Michael A.
Beloved : a novelPS3563.O8749 B4 1987
Morrison, Toni.
Beyond magenta : transgender teens speak outHQ77.9.K85 2014
Kuklin, Susan
Black boy : a record of childhood and youthPS3545.R815 Z9
Wright, Richard
Bless me, Ultima : a novelPS3551.N27 B55 1975
Anaya, Rudolfo A.
Cat's cradlePS3572.O5 C3 2006
Vonnegut, Kurt.
Catch-22PS3558.E476 C3 2004
Heller, Joseph
For whom the bell tollsPS3515.E37 F7 1995
Hemingway, Ernest
Friday night lights : a town, a team, and a dreamGV958.P47 B57 1991
Bissinger, H. G
GrendelPS3557.A712 G7 1971
Gardner, John
HabibiPN6727.T48 H33 2011
Thompson, Craig
Harry Potter and the Chamber of secretsPR6068.O93 H36 2000
Rowling, J. K
Historically Black colleges and universities : an encyclopediaLC2781 .B755 2011
Brooks, F. Erik.
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequencesHV6534.K3 C3
Capote, Truman
Kaffir boy : the true story of a Black youth's coming of age in Apartheid South AfricaDT779.95.M38 A34 1986
Mathabane, Mark
Lawn boy : a novelPS3605.V57 L39 2018
Evison, Jonathan
Less than zeroPS3555.L5937 L4 1998
Ellis, Bret Easton
Lord of the FliesPR6013.O35 L6 2003
Golding, William
Naked lunchPS3552.U75 N3 2009
Burroughs, William S.
One flew over the cuckoo's nestPS3561.E667 O5 2002
Kesey, Ken.
PersepolisPN6747.S245 P4713 2003
Satrapi, Marjane
Roll of thunder, hear my cryPS3570.A945 R6 1978
Taylor, Mildred D.
Snow falling on cedarsPS3557.U846 S65 1994
Guterson, David.
Song of SolomonPS3563.O8749 S6
Morrison, Toni.
Sons and loversPR6023.A93 S6 1992b
Lawrence, D. H. 1885-1930. (David Herbert)
Sophie's choicePS3569.T9 S67
Styron, William
The Catcher in the RyePS3537.A426 C3 1951b
Salinger, J. D. 1919-2010
BS180 1911
The OutsidersPS3558.I548 O87 2003
Hinton, S. E.
The absolutely true diary of a part-time IndianPS3551.L35774 A63 2007
Alexie, Sherman
The adventures of Tom SawyerPS1306.A2 S76 2007
Twain, Mark
The annotated LolitaPS3527.A15 L6 1991
Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich
The call of the wildPS3523.O46 C3 1995
London, Jack
The color of EarthPN6790.K63 K5513 2009
Kim, Tong-hwa
The color purplePS3573.A425 C6 1985
Walker, Alice
The fear of freedomHM1266 .F76 2001
Fromm, Erich
The foreign student : a novelPS3553.H584 F6 1998
Choi, Susan
The giverPS3562.O923 G58 2014
Lowry, Lois
The glass castle : a memoirHV5132 .W35 2017
Walls, Jeannette
The grapes of wrathPS3537.T3234 G8 2014
Steinbeck, John
The great GatsbyPS3511.I9 G7 2004
Fitzgerald, F. Scott 1896-1940
The handmaid's talePR9199.3.A8 H3 1986
Atwood, Margaret
The house of the spiritsPQ8098.1.L54 C313 1985
Allende, Isabel.
The kite runnerPS3608.O525 K58 2003
Hosseini, Khaled.
The lovely bones : a novelPS3619.E26 L68 2002
Sebold, Alice.
The naked and the dead.PS3525.A4152 N3 1968
Mailer, Norman
The rules of attractionPS3555.L5937 R8 1998
Ellis, Bret Easton.
The satanic versesPR6068.U757 S27 1988
Rushdie, Salman
The sun also risesPS3515.E37 S8 1990
Hemingway, Ernest
The things they carried : a work of fictionPS3565.B75 T48 1998b
O'Brien, Tim
Their eyes were watching GodPS3515.U789 T639 1991
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Tiger eyes : a novelPS3552.L843 T5 1981
Blume, Judy
