Books Banned in the USA

• The Catcher in the Rye  by J.D. Salinger
• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  by Mark Twain
(due to alleged racism - of all the things!) 
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer  by Mark Twain
• The Grapes of Wrath  by John Steinbeck
• Of Mice and Men  by John Steinbeck
• Little Red Riding Hood  by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
(No kidding!  An illustrated edition was banned in two California school districts in 1989. Following the Little Red-Cap story from Grimm's Fairy Tales, the book shows the heroine taking food and wine to her grandmother. The school districts cited concerns about the use of alcohol in the story.) 
• Lord of the Flies  by William Golding
• Slaughterhouse 5  by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Color Purple  by Alice Walker
• Twelfth Night  by William Shakespeare

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