Of the “Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century,” the American Library Association notes that 43 have been challenged and/or banned:

• The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
• The Color Purple, Alice Walker
• Ulysses, James Joyce
• Beloved, Toni Morrison
• The Lord of the Flies, William Golding
• 1984, George Orwell
• Lolita, Vladmir Nabokov
• Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck
• Catch-22, Joseph Heller
• Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
• The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
• As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
• A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
• Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
• Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
• Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
• Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
• Native Son, Richard Wright
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Ken Kesey
• Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemingway
• The Call of the Wild, Jack London
• Go Tell it on the Mountain, James Baldwin
• All the King’s Men, Robert Penn Warren
• The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
• The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover, DH Lawrence
• A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
• In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
• Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie
• Sons and Lovers, DH Lawrence
• Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut
• A Separate Peace, John Knowles
• Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs
• Women in Love, DH Lawrence
• The Naked and the Dead, Norman Mailer
• Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
• An American Tragedy, Theodore Dreiser
• Rabbit, Run, John Updike

Of these 43, I’ve read 19% of them, many for my freshman honors history class in college.  My favorite was Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. And now I have a few more novels to add to my TBR list.

How many have you read?