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11 Banned Books Through Time
  • Introduction
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll
  • Ulysses (1922) by James Joyce
  • Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
  • Nineteen Eighty-four (1949) by George Orwell
  • Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov
  • The Naked Lunch (1959) by William Burroughs
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969) by Maya Angelou
  • The Bluest Eye (1970) by Toni Morrison
  • The Satanic Verses (1988) by Salman Rushdie
  • The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (2007) by Sherman Alexie
  • Melissa (initially published as George in 2015) by Alex Gino
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Cheshire Cat Mock Turtle Lewis Carroll James Joyce wearing a dark suit, light tie, round glasses, and a hat, looking to the side outdoors in Zurich, Switzerland. Henry Miller George Orwell Sue Lyon as Lolita hula-hoops in the yard while James Mason as Humbert Humbert sits nearby reading, in a scene from the film Lolita directed by Stanley Kubrick. Maya Angelou Toni Morrison Salman Rushdie, 2008

11 Banned Books Through Time: References & Edit History

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