Banned & Challenged Classics

1.
1984
1984 4.20 avg rating — 5,226,302 ratings
2.
The Lord of the Rings
The Lord of the Rings 4.54 avg rating — 716,512 ratings
3.
Animal Farm
Animal Farm 4.01 avg rating — 4,356,371 ratings
4.
To Kill a Mockingbird
To Kill a Mockingbird 4.26 avg rating — 6,688,942 ratings
5.
A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms 3.82 avg rating — 344,477 ratings
6.
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby 3.93 avg rating — 5,731,398 ratings
7.
Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men 3.89 avg rating — 2,751,935 ratings
8.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide, #1) 4.22 avg rating — 1,970,011 ratings
9.
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.99 avg rating — 377,788 ratings
10.
The Wind in the Willows
The Wind in the Willows 4.02 avg rating — 235,240 ratings
11.
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies 3.70 avg rating — 3,117,465 ratings
12.
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man 3.63 avg rating — 211,133 ratings
13.
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath 4.02 avg rating — 971,589 ratings
14.
Schindler’s List
Schindler’s List 4.34 avg rating — 164,326 ratings
15.
Mrs Dalloway
Mrs Dalloway 3.78 avg rating — 341,943 ratings
16.
Brideshead Revisited
Brideshead Revisited really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 123,558 ratings
17.
A Separate Peace
A Separate Peace 3.60 avg rating — 229,388 ratings
18.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Slaughterhouse-Five 4.10 avg rating — 1,451,287 ratings
19.
The Call of the Wild
The Call of the Wild 3.91 avg rating — 461,051 ratings
20.
Charlotte's Web
Charlotte's Web 4.21 avg rating — 1,994,103 ratings
21.
The Catcher in the Rye
The Catcher in the Rye 3.80 avg rating — 3,800,476 ratings
22.
Orlando
Orlando 3.87 avg rating — 109,444 ratings
23.
The Awakening
The Awakening 3.69 avg rating — 222,557 ratings
24.
Lady Chatterley''s Lover
Lady Chatterley''s Lover 3.50 avg rating — 134,617 ratings
25.
The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp 4.11 avg rating — 235,963 ratings
26.
Lolita
Lolita 3.87 avg rating — 919,220 ratings
27.
Light in August
Light in August 3.94 avg rating — 65,243 ratings
28.
The Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence 3.97 avg rating — 189,920 ratings
29.
The Color Purple
The Color Purple 4.27 avg rating — 737,196 ratings
29.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Tess of the D’Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,807 ratings
31.
Native Son
Native Son 4.04 avg rating — 103,287 ratings
32.
All the King's Men
All the King's Men 4.09 avg rating — 65,741 ratings
32.
Beloved
Beloved 3.97 avg rating — 476,951 ratings
34.
Women in Love
Women in Love 3.66 avg rating — 33,142 ratings
35.
As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 182,469 ratings
35.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,642 ratings
37.
The Naked and the Dead
The Naked and the Dead 3.94 avg rating — 26,163 ratings
38.
The Jungle
The Jungle 3.78 avg rating — 152,235 ratings
39.
Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,018 ratings
40.
The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises 3.79 avg rating — 482,030 ratings
41.
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Go Tell It on the Mountain 4.05 avg rating — 78,206 ratings
42.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Death Comes for the Archbishop 3.97 avg rating — 41,766 ratings
43.
Ethan Frome
Ethan Frome 3.45 avg rating — 134,934 ratings
44.
Howards End
Howards End 3.96 avg rating — 93,450 ratings
45.
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1) 3.74 avg rating — 403,090 ratings
46.
My Antonia
My Antonia
by: 0
3.84 avg rating — 144,866 ratings
47.
The Wizard of Oz
The Wizard of Oz really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 499,099 ratings
48.
An American Tragedy
An American Tragedy 3.97 avg rating — 38,266 ratings
49.
The War of the Worlds
The War of the Worlds 3.83 avg rating — 340,287 ratings
50.
The French Lieutenant's Woman
The French Lieutenant's Woman 3.88 avg rating — 54,867 ratings
51.
Rebecca
Rebecca 4.25 avg rating — 697,777 ratings
52.
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer 3.66 avg rating — 76,597 ratings
52.
To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse 3.81 avg rating — 207,180 ratings
54.
Lord Jim
Lord Jim 3.61 avg rating — 32,456 ratings
55.
Absalom, Absalom!
Absalom, Absalom! 3.99 avg rating — 47,015 ratings
56.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
For Whom the Bell Tolls 3.99 avg rating — 311,407 ratings
57.
Wide Sargasso Sea
Wide Sargasso Sea
by: Jean Rhys
3.59 avg rating — 103,278 ratings
58.
The Satanic Verses
The Satanic Verses 3.71 avg rating — 70,302 ratings
59.
In Our Time
In Our Time 3.74 avg rating — 26,660 ratings
59.
The Old Man And The Sea
The Old Man And The Sea 3.81 avg rating — 1,265,666 ratings
61.
A Room with a View (Dover Thrift Editions) (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels)
A Room with a View (Dover Thrift Editions) (Dover Thrift Editions: Classic Novels) 3.90 avg rating — 197,366 ratings
62.
The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon 3.87 avg rating — 113,191 ratings
63.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,933 ratings
64.
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories
A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories 4.17 avg rating — 48,600 ratings
65.
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice 4.17 avg rating — 93,608 ratings
66.
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas 3.54 avg rating — 13,202 ratings
67.
My First Thirty Years
My First Thirty Years 3.67 avg rating — 392 ratings
68.
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)
Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2) 3.90 avg rating — 36,225 ratings
68.
Franny and Zooey
Franny and Zooey 3.96 avg rating — 235,157 ratings
70.
Rabbit, Run
Rabbit, Run 3.59 avg rating — 62,564 ratings
70.
A Passage to India
A Passage to India 3.68 avg rating — 84,383 ratings
72.
Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch 3.46 avg rating — 96,897 ratings
72.
The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-2)
The World of Winnie-the-Pooh (Winnie-the-Pooh, #1-2) 4.42 avg rating — 49,443 ratings
74.
Sons and Lovers
Sons and Lovers 3.64 avg rating — 55,119 ratings
74.
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction 3.77 avg rating — 23,577 ratings
76.
Brave New World Revisited
Brave New World Revisited 3.94 avg rating — 21,794 ratings
77.
The Scarlet Letter
The Scarlet Letter 3.44 avg rating — 901,338 ratings
78.
Catch-22
Catch-22 3.99 avg rating — 873,330 ratings
79.
Cat's Cradle
Cat's Cradle 4.15 avg rating — 428,387 ratings
80.
Ulysses
Ulysses 3.77 avg rating — 138,341 ratings
80.
Babbitt
Babbitt 3.69 avg rating — 24,525 ratings
82.
Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children 3.98 avg rating — 130,712 ratings
83.
A Clockwork Orange
A Clockwork Orange really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 753,915 ratings
84.
Main Street
Main Street 3.78 avg rating — 26,594 ratings
84.
The Beautiful and Damned
The Beautiful and Damned 3.73 avg rating — 63,649 ratings
84.
Kim
Kim 3.70 avg rating — 39,386 ratings
87.
This Side of Paradise
This Side of Paradise 3.64 avg rating — 78,637 ratings
87.
The Bostonians
The Bostonians 3.58 avg rating — 7,842 ratings
89.
O Pioneers!
O Pioneers! 3.90 avg rating — 57,277 ratings
89.
White Noise
White Noise 3.86 avg rating — 123,848 ratings
91.
Look Homeward, Angel
Look Homeward, Angel 3.92 avg rating — 15,524 ratings
92.
Wings of the Dove
Wings of the Dove 3.79 avg rating — 17,385 ratings
93.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 85,399 ratings
93.
Tender is the Night
Tender is the Night 3.77 avg rating — 146,422 ratings
95.
Finnegans Wake
Finnegans Wake 3.68 avg rating — 13,450 ratings
95.
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady 3.80 avg rating — 84,058 ratings
97.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 3.64 avg rating — 160,996 ratings
97.
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Where Angels Fear to Tread 3.59 avg rating — 17,388 ratings
99.
The Fountainhead
The Fountainhead
by: Ayn Rand
3.89 avg rating — 333,852 ratings
100.
In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood 4.09 avg rating — 710,359 ratings
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