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In Cold Blood

By Truman Capote

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Moll Flanders

By Daniel Defoe

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One Hundred Years of Solitude

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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Candide

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The Christian Commonwealth

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The New English Canaan

By Thomas Morton

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The Bluest Eye

By Toni Morrison

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The Odyssey

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Moby Dick

By Herman Melville

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The Joy Luck Club

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Harry Potter: The Complete Collection

By J.K. Rowling

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The Fellowship of the Ring

By J. R. R. Tolkien

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The Scarlet Letter

By Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Twelfth Night

By William Shakespeare

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A Wrinkle in Time

By Madeleine L'Engle

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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The Prince

By Niccolò Machiavelli

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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

By L. Frank Baum

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Alice in Wonderland

By Lewis Carroll

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A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of Four

By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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American Psycho

By Bret Easton Ellis

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The Diary of a Young Girl

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Giovanni's Room

By James Baldwin

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The Well of Loneliness

By Radclyffe Hall

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Articles About Banning and Challenging Books

Online Articles & Sources

America’s First Banned Book (Banned Book Awareness)

Now they're after Homer's Odyssey? Get a grip. (The Register-Guard)

Maya Angelou – the most banned author in the US (New African)

Madeleine L’Engle, “A Wrinkle in Time” (Carnegie Mellon University)

A Brief History of Stupid Book Bans, from Twelfth Night to Where’s Waldo? (Time)

"Banned Books: Shakespeare Censored!" (Occidental College)

Online Classic Texts

The Christian Commonwealth By John Eliot (UNL Digital Commons)

The Odyssey By Homer (MIT Internet Classics Archive)

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale By Herman Melville (Project Gutenberg)

Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare(Project Gutenberg)

The New English Canaan by Thomas Morton (Project Gutenberg)

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce (Project Gutenberg)

A Study in Scarlet by A. Conan Doyle (Project Gutenberg)

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