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Out of 513 challenges as reported to the Office for Intellectual Freedom > Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group > Reasons: political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, and violence > Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group > Reasons: occult/satanism, religious viewpoint, and violence > Reasons: occult/satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and violence > Reasons: drugs, homosexuality, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, suicide, and unsuited to age group > Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group > Reasons: homosexuality and unsuited to age group > Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group > Reasons: sexually explicit and unsuited to age group
 * =Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2008=
 * 1) //And Tango Makes Three//, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
 * 1) //His Dark Materials// trilogy, by Philip Pullman
 * 1) //TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R// (series), by Lauren Myracle
 * 1) //Scary Stories// (series), by Alvin Schwartz
 * 1) //Bless Me, Ultima//, by Rudolfo Anaya
 * 1) //The Perks of Being a Wallflower//, by Stephen Chbosky
 * 1) //Gossip Girl// (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
 * 1) //Uncle Bobby's Wedding//, by Sarah S. Brannen
 * 1) //The Kite Runner//, by Khaled Hosseini
 * 1) //Flashcards of My Life//, by Charise Mericle Harper

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. According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, at least 42 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts. The titles in bold represent banned or challenged books. For more information on why these books were challenged, visit challenged classics and the Banned Books Week Web site. 2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker 6. Ulysses by James Joyce 7. Beloved by Toni Morrison 8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding 9. 1984 by George Orwell** 10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck** 13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White 14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce 16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley** 17. Animal Farm by George Orwell 19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad** 22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne 24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison 25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 27. Native Son by Richard Wright 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway** 31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf 35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 37. The World According to Garp by John Irving 39. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 40. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien 41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally 42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton 43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce 46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess** 50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 51. My Antonia by Willa Cather 52. Howards End by E. M. Forster 54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger 56. Jazz by Toni Morrison 57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron 58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner 59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster 60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor 62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf 65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe 67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles** 68. Light in August by William Faulkner 69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James 70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe 71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams 74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh 76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe 77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway 78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein 79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett 81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys 82. White Noise by Don DeLillo 83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather 85. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells 86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad 87. The Bostonians by Henry James 89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather 90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame 91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald 92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles 94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis 95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling 96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald 98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster 99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
 * =Banned and Challenged Classics=
 * 1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
 * 15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
 * 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
 * 23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
 * 33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London**
 * 36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin**
 * 38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren**
 * 45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair**
 * 48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
 * 53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote**
 * 55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie**
 * 64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence**
 * 66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
 * 73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs**
 * 75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence**
 * 80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer**
 * 84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller**
 * 88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser**
 * 97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike**