Category: Banned Books

This category highlights books, plays, and stories that have been banned, censored, or challenged in the US or other countries at some point in history. See Banned Books Online for more information about banned books, and find out about the American Library Association's Banned Books Week.

• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
• Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
• Grimms' Fairy Tales by The Brothers Grimm
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
• Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare
• Macbeth by William Shakespeare
• Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
• Paradise Lost by John Milton
• Silas Marner by George Eliot
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
• The Call of the Wild by Jack London
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
• The History of Tom Jones, a foundling by Henry Fielding
• The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
• The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin
• The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare