Banned Books Week

Reasons: immoral situations, depressing view of life

Reasons: "deals with low love affairs," obscene

Reason: communist themes, controversial political theories, opposition to Islamic values

Reasons: abortion, profanity, questions existence of God, masturbation

Reasons: morbid, vulgar, scandalous

Reason: violent and sexually explicit

Reason: promiscuity, directly opposed the abstinence only health curriculum, drug use, suicide

Reasons: homosexuality

Reasons: author's socialist views, animal cruelty

Reasons: no official reaons but called "completely sick" and "garbage"

Reason: profane, weak depictions of America's armed forces

Reason: sexual references and profanity

Reasons: profanity, violence, rape

Reason: violence, sexual explicit passages, and profanity

Reasons: propaganda

Reasons: offensive language

Reasons: rape, masturbation, violence, profanity, and degradation of women

Reason: The book uses the name of God and Jesus in a "vain and profane manner along with inappropriate sexual references."

Reason: Profanity and sexual references

Reasons: sex, violence, profanity

Reasons: profanity, violence, sexual themes

Reasons: communist themes, author's socialist views

Reasons: promotes adultery, sexually explicit,

Reason: pedophilia, profane

Reason: profanity, racism, and sexually explicit passages

Reasons: satanism

Reasons: profanity, obscenity,

Reasons: drug use, sexually explicit acts, obscene language

Reasons: violence, sexually explicit, profanity

Reason: communist overtones and sexually explicit

Reason: profanity, use of God's name in vain, racial slurs, morbid

Reasons: sexually explicit, glorification of criminal activity, promotion of secular humanism, violence

Reasons: sexually explicit, obscene, promiscuity, extramarital affair, profanity

Reasons: criticism of Islam, led to riots in which people died, led to threats to bookstore owners, blasphemy

Reason: Graphic language

Reasons: profanity, violence, sexually explicit, racial slurs, depictions of torture

Reasons: sexual themes, "filth," "trash"

Reasons:

Reasons: sexual explicit, drug use

Reasons: extensive alcohol consumption, profanity, sexual themes

Reasons: profanity, sexually explicit, rape

Reason: profanity and racial slurs

Reasons: obscene, sexually explicit, profane

Reason: sexually explicit

Reasons: sexual content, obscene