Banned Books Week selections:
2011: Areopagitica by John Milton (Written in defiance of censorship laws - and thus pre-banned in England)
2012: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (2012) (Banned in the Confederate States)
2013: The Quest for Christa T. by Christa Wolf (Banned in the author's native East Germany)
2014: Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz (Banned throughout the Arab world)
2015: All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque (Banned in Nazi Germany)
2016: July's People by Nadine Gordimer (Banned in apartheid South Africa)
2017: Into the River by Ted Dawe (Banned for under-14 in New Zealand - in 2014)
2018: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Banned in several states and in Dallas, Texas in the 1970s)
2019: Strange Fruit by Lillian Smith (The original "Banned In Boston" bestseller)
2020: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang (Banned in Communist China)
2021: Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (banned for import to the US, until a Supreme Court case in 1964)
2022: Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis (banned in Boston and elsewhere for being “disrespectful to religion”)
2023: Ulysses by James Joyce (banned throughout the English-speaking world - the subject of a seminal court case)
Other banned books I have posted about:
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Group by Mary McCarthy
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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