Via Hey Jude, is this visual list of the Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century. It’s fascinating that these books, banned for either their political heterodoxy or moral ambiguity, are now considered classics and form the basis of many school and university reading lists.
They are:
1984 by George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
The Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ulysses by James Joyce

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