Books Banned in California
9 banned books
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racial injustice in the American South, challenged for its use of racial...
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger's classic novel about teenage alienation, the most censored book in American high schools from 1961 to 198...
The Giver
Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning dystopian novel about a society that has eliminated pain, color, and choice, challeng...
The Chocolate War
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier is a YA novel about a student who refuses to participate in his school's chocolate f...
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck's Depression-era novella about two migrant workers, challenged for profanity, racial slurs, and its portr...
Lolita
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is a controversial literary masterpiece about an unreliable narrator's obsession with a young...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Maya Angelou's memoir of growing up Black in the Jim Crow South, challenged for its depiction of childhood sexual assaul...
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck follows the Joad family's migration from Oklahoma to California during the Dust Bo...
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a sweeping Civil War-era novel challenged for racial slurs, romanticized slav...