Banned Books Reading List Feeling daring? Here is a list of books that were banned and/or caused a lot of controversy:  The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald  The Catcher in the Rye-JD Salinger  The Grapes of Wrath-John Steinbeck  To Kill a Mockingbird-Harper Lee  The Color Purple-Alice Walker  Ulysses-James Joyce  Beloved-Toni Morrison  The Lord of the Flies-William Golding  1984-George Orwell  Lolita-Vladimir Nabokov  Of Mice and Men-John Steinbeck  Catch-22-Joseph Heller  Brave New World-Aldous Huxley  Animal Farm-George Orwell  The Sun Also Rises-Ernest Hemingway  As I lay Dying-William Faulkner  A Farwell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway  Their Eyes Were Watching God-Zora Neale Hurston  Invisible Man-Ralph Ellison  Song of Solomon-Toni Morrison  Gone with the Wind-Margaret Mitchell  Native Son-Richard Wright  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest-Ken Kesey  Slaughterhouse Five-Kurt Vonnegut  For Whom the Bell Tolls-Ernest Hemingway  The Call of the Wild-Jack London  Go Tell it on the Mountain-James Baldwin  All the King’s Men-Robert Penn Warren  The Lord of the Rings-J.R.R. Tolkien  The Jungle-Upton Sinclair  Lady Chatterley’s Lover-D.H. Lawrence  A Clockwork Orange-Anthony Burgess  The Awakening-Kate Chopin  In Cold Blood-Truman Capote  Satanic Verses-Salman Rushdie  Sophie’s Choice-William Styron  Sons and Lovers-D.H. Lawrence  Cat’s Cradle-Kurt Vonnegut  A Separate Peace-John Knowles  Naked Lunch-William S. Burroughs  Brideshead Revisited-Evelyn Waugh  Women in Love- D.H. Lawrence  The Naked and the Dead-Norman Mailer  Tropic of Cancer-Henry Miller  An American Tragedy-Theodore Dreiser  Rabbit, Run-John Updike