Banned Books Week 2015

Banned Books Week 2015

27 September - 3 October

Here are just a few of our best loved books which may have been lost to us forever if someone somewhere hadn’t stood up for our right to read. Makes you think doesn’t it!

Banned & Challenged Classics:

A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess

The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

Catch-22, by Joseph Heller

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley

Ulysses, by James Joyce

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey


Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell


Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov

Animal Farm, by George Orwell

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

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck


Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh



More information on banned books week is available here:
www.bannedbooksweek.org