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Classic Literature

Lessons from the Past

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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Native Son

By Richard Wright

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Gone with the Wind

By Margaret Mitchell

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Song of Solomon

By Toni Morrison

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Go Tell It on the Mountain

By James Baldwin

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The Call of the Wild

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For Whom the Bell Tolls

By Ernest Hemingway

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Slaughterhouse Five

By Kurt Vonnegut

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

By D.H. Lawrence

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The Lord of the Rings

By J.R.R. Tolkien

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The Jungle

By Upton Sinclair

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All the King's Men

By Robert Penn Warren

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Satanic Verses

By Salman Rushdie

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In Cold Blood

By Truman Capote

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The Awakening

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A Clockwork Orange

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A Separate Peace

By John Knowles

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Cat's Cradle

By Kurt Vonnegut

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Sons and Lovers

By D.H. Lawrence

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Sophie's Choice

By William Styron

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The Naked and the Dead

By Norman Mailer

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Women in Love

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Brideshead Revisited

By Evelyn Waugh

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Naked Lunch

By William S. Burroughs

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Tropic of Cancer

By Henry Miller

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An American Tragedy

By Theodore Dreiser

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Rabbit, Run

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Articles About Banning and Challenging Books

On The Classics

Banned & Challenged Classics (ALA)

BANNED: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (PBS)

"The War on Truth" By Ishena Robinson (NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.)

"Challenging and Banning Literary Classics" (Virginia Tech)

"Fight for Your Right to Read" By Anne Rouyer (New York Public Library)

"Opportunities Off the Shelves: Banned Books" By Maggie Coffey and Reilly Gaunt (Breaking Blue)

"Movement to ban — or even burn — school library books gains momentum" (The Hill)

"America ends 2021 with censorship surge. Will 2022's new year be better?" By Dennis Aftergut (NBC News)

"Banned and Burned: Banning books should be a thing of the past" (The News Record)

"Little House, Big Problem: What To Do with “Classic” Books That Are Also Racist" (School Library Journal)

"Anti-CRT Mania and Book Bans are the Latest Tactics to Halt Racial Justice" by Marva Hinton (LDF)

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