Goodreads | get book recommendations from people you know. Banned Books Online. Presents Welcome to this special exhibit of books that have been the objects of censorship or censorship attempts. The books featured here, ranging from Ulysses to Little Red Riding Hood, have been selected from the indexes of The Online Books Page.
(See that page for more than 3 million more online books!) Please inform onlinebooks@pobox.upenn.edu of any new material that can be included here. Note that the listings are meant to be representative rather than exhaustive. Also, many recent books that have been banned or challenged have not been included here, because they have not been made freely readable online. October 1 - 7 is Banned Books Week. Books Suppressed or Censored by Legal Authorities Ulysses by James Joyce was selected by the Modern Library as the best novel of the 20th century, and has received wide praise from other literature scholars, including those who have defended online censorship.
In 1930, U.S. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography Confessions was banned by U.S. Lists of Great Book Recommendations from Flashlight Worthy. 100 Most Influential Books Since the War (TLS) Who wrote this list? See the heading above and the credit below to find out who wrote this list. If you don't like the selections in this list or the arrangement, take it up with the author(s). Why isn't my favorite author listed here? This list may not include your favorite author, but he or she may be on other Great Books lists.
See the Great Books FAQ for more about the Great Books and these lists of them. Books of the 1940s Simone de Beauvoir: The Second Sex Marc Bloch: The Historian's Craft Fernand Braudel: The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II James Burnham: The Managerial Revolution Albert Camus: The Myth of Sisyphus Albert Camus: The Outsider R. Books of the 1950s Books of the 1960s Hannah Arendt: Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil Daniel Bell: The End of Ideology Isaiah Berlin: Four Essays on Liberty Albert Camus: Notebooks 1935-1951 Elias Canetti: Crowds and Power Robert Dahl: Who Governs?
Books of the 1970s. The Book Seer | What should I read next.