Reading path
Books That Were Banned
Governments, churches, and school boards have tried to suppress every one of these. They all failed. Banned books share a quality that no censor has ever been able to stamp out: they tell a truth that someone in power would rather you did not hear. Some were seized at customs. Some were burned in public. Some sent their authors to prison or exile. All of them survived, and the fact of their survival is itself a kind of argument for what literature can do.
In the app a path keeps your place, marks what you have read, and hands you the next work when you are ready for it.
The first button needs the app on this device; the second gets it there.
The route
- 1. UlyssesJames Joyce, 1922
- 2. LolitaVladimir Nabokov, 1955
- 3. Madame BovaryGustave Flaubert, 1857
- 4. The Flowers of EvilCharles Baudelaire, 1857
- 5. CandideVoltaire, 1759
- 6. Brave New WorldAldous Huxley, 1932
- 7. 1984George Orwell, 1949
- 8. Animal FarmGeorge Orwell, 1945
- 9. Slaughterhouse-FiveKurt Vonnegut, 1969
- 10. The Catcher in the RyeJ.D. Salinger, 1951
- 11. Catch-22Joseph Heller, 1961
- 12. Doctor ZhivagoBoris Pasternak, 1957
- 13. The Master & MargaritaMikhail Bulgakov, 1967
- 14. All Quiet on the Western FrontErich Maria Remarque, 1929
- 15. The Communist ManifestoKarl Marx & Friedrich Engels, 1848
- 16. Don QuixoteMiguel de Cervantes, 1605
- 17. Huckleberry FinnMark Twain, 1884
- 18. Native SonRichard Wright, 1940
- 19. BelovedToni Morrison, 1987
- 20. The Handmaid's TaleMargaret Atwood, 1985
- 21. The Diary of a Young GirlAnne Frank, 1947
- 22. A Farewell to ArmsErnest Hemingway, 1929
- 23. On the Origin of SpeciesCharles Darwin, 1859
- 24. Alice's Adventures in WonderlandLewis Carroll, 1865
- 25. Fahrenheit 451Ray Bradbury, 1953
- 26. Lady Chatterley's LoverD.H. Lawrence, 1928
- 27. Tropic of CancerHenry Miller, 1934
- 28. Uncle Tom's CabinHarriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
- 29. A Wrinkle In TimeMadeleine L'Engle, 1962
- 30. Life and FateVasily Grossman, 1980
- 31. Boys AlivePier Paolo Pasolini, 1955
- 32. Bastard Out of CarolinaDorothy Allison, 1992
- 33. DecameronGiovanni Boccaccio, 1353
- 34. Black BoyRichard Wright, 1945
- 35. To Kill a MockingbirdHarper Lee, 1960
- 36. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestKen Kesey, 1962
- 37. American PsychoBret Easton Ellis, 1991
- 38. I Served The King Of EnglandBohumil Hrabal, 1983
- 39. Naked LunchWilliam S. Burroughs, 1959
- 40. The Color PurpleAlice Walker, 1982
- 41. Johnny Got His GunDalton Trumbo, 1939
- 42. The Captive MindCzesław Miłosz, 1953
- 43. Woman at Point ZeroNawal El Saadawi, 1975
- 44. Before Night FallsReinaldo Arenas, 1992
- 45. Three Trapped TigersGuillermo Cabrera Infante, 1965
- 46. Young LoniganJames T. Farrell, 1932
- 47. The Ginger ManJ.P. Donleavy, 1955
- 48. RuthElizabeth Gaskell, 1853
- 49. Queen MabPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1813
- 50. The CenciPercy Bysshe Shelley, 1819
- 51. I Know Why the Caged Bird SingsMaya Angelou, 1969
- 52. On the Revolutions of the Heavenly SpheresNicolaus Copernicus, 1543
- 53. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World SystemsGalileo, 1632