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Banned & Challenged Books: Adult Fiction

A selection of frequently banned and challenged titles in Massasoit's library collection

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1991-03-06
Black Boy by Richard Wright; John Edgar Wideman (Foreword by); Malcolm Wright (Afterword by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2011-07-01
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2011-04-05
Christine by Stephen King
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2016-02-23
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2016-04-12
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1992-06-30
Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780345806550
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2006-03-28
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; Richard Smoley
Call Number: eBook
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781501117039
Publication Date: 2015-10-27
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2003-12-16
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1999-06-28
The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Call Number: eBook
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey; Robert Faggen (Introduction by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2002-12-31
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2012-03-13
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1996-08-27
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2008-03-11
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Call Number: eBook
Stephen King: Three Classic Novels; Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining by Stephen King
Call Number: eBook
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2009-03-17
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2009-10-13
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2007-12-01

Call of the Wild by Jack London
Call Number: eBook
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1993-06-29
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781453223970
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller; Christopher Bigsby (Introduction by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1998-05-01
Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina García; Cristina García
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1993-02-10
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2006-04-04
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2005-05-01
Grendel by John Gardner
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1989-05-14
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2017-04-25
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780679732761
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2013-03-05
Lady Chatterley's Lover by David Herbert Lawrence
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2012-06-15
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1989-03-13
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2005-02-01
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs; James Grauerholz (Editor); Barry Miles (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2004-01-26
Native Son by Richard Wright
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2023-01-10
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1993-09-01
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1982-10-28
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2019-09-17
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 1999-01-12
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Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2010-05-04
Ulysses by James Joyce; Mint Editions (Contribution by)
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2020-07-28
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Call Number: eBook
Publication Date: 2002-04-30