Each year, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. (bannedbooksweek.org/Mapofbookcensorship.html) At least 42 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century (www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/index.cfm) have been the target of ban attempts. Visit www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/ for more information on book bans and challenges.

RULE: When you're tagged, copy the list and the instructions into a new note. (Create by clicking on the "Notes" tab on your profile page.) Mark the banned books you've read. Then, tag some friends and pass it on. (Remember to tag the person who tagged you.)

__ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
__ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
__ The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
__ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
__ The Color Purple by Alice Walker
__ Ulysses by James Joyce
__ Beloved by Toni Morrison
__ The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
__ 1984 by George Orwell
__ Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
__ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
__ Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
__ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
__ The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
__ As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
__ A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
__ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
__ Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
__ Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
__ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
__ Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
__ Native Son by Richard Wright
__ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
__ Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
__ For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
__ The Call of the Wild by Jack London
__ Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
__ All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
__ The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
__ Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
__ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
__ In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
__ The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
__ Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
__ Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
__ A Separate Peace by John Knowles
__ Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
__ Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
__ The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
__ Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
__ An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
__ Rabbit, Run by John Updike