Friday, July 13, 2007

Top 10 Banned Books of the 20th Century

Books cannot be killed by fire.

People Die, but books never die. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt


1. 1984 [1949] George Orwell


2. The Catcher in the Rye [1951] J.D. Salinger


3. Fahrenheit 451 [1953] Ray Bradbury


4. The Grapes of Wrath [1939] John Steinbeck


5. Lady Chatterley's Lover [1928] D. H. Lawrence


6. Naked Lunch [1959] William S. Burroughs


7. Slaughterhouse-Five [1969] Kurt Vonnegut


8. To Kill a Mockingbird [1960] Harper Lee


9. Tropic of Cancer [1934] Henry Miller


10. Ulysses [1922] James Joyce

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