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James Library

Banned Books Week Sept 27-Oct 3, 2020

Off-campus Access

To access audio and ebook databases, use your RCC login. THEN, create an individual account to listen to or read books, and to return to them later.

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336-342-4261, x. 2247

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Audio Books

Beloved by Toni Morrison Reasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2012!
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie Reasons: Offensive language, racism, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit. Top 10 Challenged - 2010 thu 2018!
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, thought to “lead to terrorism,” and “promote Islam.” Top 10 Challenged - 2014 & 2017!
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited to age group, "atheism." Top 10 Challenged - 2015!
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky Reasons: Drugs, alcohol, sex, homosexuality, and abuse. Top 10 Challenged - 2014!
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group. Top 10 Challenged - 2014!
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins Reasons: Anti-ethnic, anti-family, insensitivity, offensive language, occult/satanic, and violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2010, 2011 & 2013!
Mockingjay (Hunger Games series) by Suzanne Collins Reasons: Anti-ethnic, anti-family, insensitivity, offensive language, occult/satanic, and violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2010, 2011 & 2013!
Catching Fire (Hunger Games series) by Suzanne Collins Reasons: Anti-ethnic, anti-family, insensitivity, offensive language, occult/satanic, and violence. Top 10 Challenged - 2010, 2011 & 2013!
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo; E. L. Doctorow Reasons: Not actually banned during WWII, but publication was halted. Later challenged for offensive language and being "anti-American."
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Reason: Racism, and offensive language.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Reasons: Offensive language and sexual content.
Animal Farm by George Orwell Reasons:"Politically incendiary."
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George Reasons: Sexual content, offensive language, violence and unsuited to age group.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin Reason: Suicide, and religious viewpoint.
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Reasons: Occult/Satanism, offensive language, and violence.
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Reasons: Sexual content, criminal activity, and violence.
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Reasons: Occult, and undermines religious beliefs.
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Reason: Offensive language.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Reasons: Challenged in 2015 by a parent in the Knoxville, TN HS system for having "too much graphic information."
ISBN: 9781400052172
Publication Date: 2010-02-02
Native Son by Richard Wright Reasons: Profanity, violence, sexually explicit.

Ebooks

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Reason: Racism, and offensive language.
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood Reason: Challenged at Grimsley High School in Greensboro (2012) as "sexually explicit, violently graphic and morally corrupt." Top 10 Challenged - 2019!
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence Reason: Sexually explicit.
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin Reasons: Religious viewpoint.
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez Reasons: Violence, and sexual content.
The Awakening by Kate Chopin Reason: Suicide, and religious viewpoint.
The Giver by Lois Lowry Reasons: Euthanasia, infanticide, and sexuality.