Banned Books Week 2016

Banned Books Week 2016 is here! This year from September 25th to October 1st, we celebrate open access to information and the freedom to read. FSU Special Collections & Archives is host to several frequently challenged and banned classics available for use in our Reading Room, including:

• The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien (1954)
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence (1928)
• Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury (1953)
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain (1884)
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X, by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965)
• The Call of the Wild, by Jack London (1903)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway (1940)
• Gone With the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell (1936)
• The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer (1948)
• Howl, by Allen Ginsberg (1956)
• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (1960)
• Ulysses, by James Joyce (1922)
• Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs (1959)

For more information on banned books, check out the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week website.