Banned Books Week: Reading suggestions

Adult titles

Maya Angelou I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 

Margaret Atwood The Handmaid’s Tale

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

William Golding Lord of the Flies

Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness

James Joyce Ulysses

Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon

D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird

Margaret Mitchell Gone with the Wind

Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye

Edna O’Brien The Country Girls

George Orwell Animal Farm

George Orwell 1984

Vladimir Nabokov Lolita

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Alice Walker The Color Purple

Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray

Young adult titles

John Green Looking for Alaska

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower

George M. Johnson All Boys Aren’t Blue: A Memoir-Manifesto (nonfiction)

Children’s titles

Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Anna Sewell Black Beauty

J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Madeleine L’Engle A Wrinkle in Time

C.S. Lewis The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe