Books of the Week: Top 15 Banned Literary Classics

I remember the day I first picked up a copy of Huckleberry Finn. I was in the eighth grade, and I remember how fascinated I was that such a famous literary classic was banned. If I am correct, it is still banned today, though for much different reasons than when it was first published. I've read a handful of the books on the banned list, and I've concluded that the term 'banned' when applied to books really means 'generally not approved', but these are wonderful books nonetheless. And really, who ever has been able to resist something that's off-limits?

1. Ulysses by James Royce

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

3. Candide by Voltaire

4. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

5. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

6. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

7. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - I realize that I have done this book before, but I did not write the list of top 15 banned books. Besides, it's worth a second read.

8. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

9. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding

11. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

12. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - a note, this story was drafted at the same time as Of Mice and Men

13. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

14. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

15. The Crucible by Arthur Miller

And just in case your wondering which of these I've read: 2, 7, 10, 13, 15