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Biography, autobiography, and This is an updated list of the titles that both made it to the OCLC Top
journals 1000 list and have been banned according to the 4 volumes in the
Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature series:
Books into film

Children's Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds by

Nicholas J. Karolides. New York: Facts on File, 1998. ISBN 0-8160-
Drama
3304-8
Fiction
Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, by
Government Margaret Bald. New York: Facts on File, 1998. ISBN 0-8160-3306-4
Librarianship
Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds, by Dawn
Magazines and journals B. Sova. New York: Facts on File, 1998. ISBN 0-8160-3305-6

Music
Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds, by Dawn
Poetry B. Sova. New York: Facts on File, 1998. ISBN 0-8160-3303-X

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#1 Bible [ various]
Library holdings: 796,882
Bibliographic records: 93,567
Rank on complete list: 1

#2 Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
Library holdings: 42,724

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Bibliographic records: 1,132

Rank on complete list: 7

#3 Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Library holdings: 38,485
Bibliographic records: 2,334
Rank on complete list: 11

#4 Koran
Library holdings: 37,080
Bibliographic records: 2,692
Rank on complete list: 13

#5 Tom Sawyer
Mark Twain
Library holdings: 32,233
Bibliographic records: 1,100
Rank on complete list: 16

#6 Arabian Nights
Library holdings: 31,728
Bibliographic records: 2,414
Rank on complete list: 18

#7 Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
Library holdings: 29,066
Bibliographic records: 1,206
Rank on complete list: 20

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#8 Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
Library holdings: 27,863
Bibliographic records: 690
Rank on complete list: 25

#9 Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Library holdings: 26,322
Bibliographic records: 758
Rank on complete list: 31

#10 Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman
Library holdings: 21,749
Bibliographic records: 634
Rank on complete list: 49

#11 Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe
Library holdings: 20,007
Bibliographic records: 960
Rank on complete list: 59

#12 Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Library holdings: 19,758
Bibliographic records: 709
Rank on complete list: 60

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#13 Diary of a Young Girl

Anne Frank
Library holdings: 19,541
Bibliographic records: 339
Rank on complete list: 63

#14 Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert
Library holdings: 19,382
Bibliographic records: 733
Rank on complete list: 64

#15 Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens
Library holdings: 18,843
Bibliographic records: 980
Rank on complete list: 65

#16 Les Misérables

Victor Hugo
Library holdings: 18,623
Bibliographic records: 884
Rank on complete list: 70

#17 Dracula
Bram Stoker
Library holdings: 17,723
Bibliographic records: 415
Rank on complete list: 75

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#18 Autobiography
Benjamin Franklin
Library holdings: 17,505
Bibliographic records: 573
Rank on complete list: 76

#19 Tom Jones

Henry Fielding
Library holdings: 16,381
Bibliographic records: 489
Rank on complete list: 89

#20 Book of Common Prayer

Church of England
Library holdings: 16,008
Bibliographic records: 1,510
Rank on complete list: 95

#21 Essays
Michel de Montaigne
Library holdings: 15,613
Bibliographic records: 550
Rank on complete list: 99

#22 Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 15,544
Bibliographic records: 317
Rank on complete list: 101

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#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy
Library holdings: 15,103
Bibliographic records: 395
Rank on complete list: 111

#24 History of the Decline and Fall of the

Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon
Library holdings: 14,869
Bibliographic records: 551
Rank on complete list: 116

#25 Origin of Species

Charles Darwin
Library holdings: 14,528
Bibliographic records: 301
Rank on complete list: 124

#26 Ulysses
James Joyce
Library holdings: 13,877
Bibliographic records: 373
Rank on complete list: 134

#27 Animal Farm

George Orwell
Library holdings: 13,777
Bibliographic records: 296
Rank on complete list: 137

#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four

George Orwell
Library holdings: 13,729
Bibliographic records: 301
Rank on complete list: 139

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#29 Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
Library holdings: 13,566
Bibliographic records: 909
Rank on complete list: 143

#30 Candide
Voltaire
Library holdings: 13,371
Bibliographic records: 493
Rank on complete list: 144

#31 To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
Library holdings: 13,012
Bibliographic records: 151
Rank on complete list: 146

#32 Analects
Confucius
Library holdings: 12,649
Bibliographic records: 426
Rank on complete list: 152

#33 Dubliners
James Joyce
Library holdings: 11,925
Bibliographic records: 283
Rank on complete list: 178

#34 Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 11,879
Bibliographic records: 232
Rank on complete list: 179

#35 Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway
Library holdings: 11,682
Bibliographic records: 271
Rank on complete list: 184

#36 Red and the Black

Stendhal
Library holdings: 11,413
Bibliographic records: 478
Rank on complete list: 191

#37 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Library holdings: 11,352

Bibliographic records: 458
Rank on complete list: 192

#38 Capital
Karl Marx
Library holdings: 11,282
Bibliographic records: 509
Rank on complete list: 194

#39 Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire
Library holdings: 11,086
Bibliographic records: 628
Rank on complete list: 203

#40 Brave New World

Aldous Huxley
Library holdings: 11,037
Bibliographic records: 230
Rank on complete list: 205

#41 Lady Chatterley's Lover

D. H. Lawrence
Library holdings: 10,956
Bibliographic records: 355
Rank on complete list: 207

#42 Jungle
Upton Sinclair
Library holdings: 10,903
Bibliographic records: 141
Rank on complete list: 209

#43 Sister Carrie

Theodore Dreiser
Library holdings: 10,695
Bibliographic records: 170
Rank on complete list: 214

#44 Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell
Library holdings: 10,688
Bibliographic records: 290
Rank on complete list: 215

#45 Lord of the Flies

William Golding
Library holdings: 10,316
Bibliographic records: 155
Rank on complete list: 238

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#46 All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque
Library holdings: 10,238
Bibliographic records: 233
Rank on complete list: 242

#47 Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury
Library holdings: 10,183
Bibliographic records: 178
Rank on complete list: 247

#48 Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx
Library holdings: 10,151
Bibliographic records: 513
Rank on complete list: 249

#49 Sun Also Rises

Ernest Hemingway
Library holdings: 9,823
Bibliographic records: 201
Rank on complete list: 266

#50 Jude the Obscure

Thomas Hardy
Library holdings: 9,776
Bibliographic records: 193
Rank on complete list: 267

#51 Diary
Samuel Pepys
Library holdings: 9,729
Bibliographic records: 227
Rank on complete list: 268

#52 Doctor Zhivago

Boris Pasternak
Library holdings: 9,453
Bibliographic records: 190
Rank on complete list: 277

#53 Critique of Pure Reason

Immanuel Kant
Library holdings: 9,244
Bibliographic records: 358
Rank on complete list: 290

#54 Praise of Folly

Desiderius Erasmus
Library holdings: 9,109
Bibliographic records: 414

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Rank on complete list: 300

#55 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Ken Kesey
Library holdings: 8,996
Bibliographic records: 99
Rank on complete list: 308

#56 East of Eden

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 8,881
Bibliographic records: 143
Rank on complete list: 318

#57 Catch-22
Joseph Heller
Library holdings: 8,760
Bibliographic records: 117
Rank on complete list: 325

#58 Moll Flanders

Daniel Defoe
Library holdings: 8,636
Bibliographic records: 241
Rank on complete list: 336

#59 Color Purple

Alice Walker
Library holdings: 8,528
Bibliographic records: 67
Rank on complete list: 345

#60 Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger
Library holdings: 8,524
Bibliographic records: 159
Rank on complete list: 347

#61 Autobiography of Malcolm X

Malcolm X
Library holdings: 8,470
Bibliographic records: 39
Rank on complete list: 351

#62 Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke
Library holdings: 8,445
Bibliographic records: 348
Rank on complete list: 355

#63 Bluest Eye

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Toni Morrison
Library holdings: 8,413
Bibliographic records: 77
Rank on complete list: 358

#64 Invisible Man

Ralph Ellison
Library holdings: 8,229
Bibliographic records: 61
Rank on complete list: 369

#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Maya Angelou
Library holdings: 8,130
Bibliographic records: 43
Rank on complete list: 377

#66 Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Library holdings: 8,080
Bibliographic records: 162
Rank on complete list: 381

#67 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Library holdings: 8,072
Bibliographic records: 125
Rank on complete list: 383

#68 Bridge to Terabithia

Katherine Paterson
Library holdings: 7,956
Bibliographic records: 74
Rank on complete list: 394

#69 Confessions
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Library holdings: 7,915
Bibliographic records: 330
Rank on complete list: 401

#70 Gargantua and Pantagruel

François Rabelais
Library holdings: 7,825
Bibliographic records: 167
Rank on complete list: 414

#71 Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence
Library holdings: 7,675
Bibliographic records: 143
Rank on complete list: 423

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#72 Social Contract

Jean Jacques Rousseau
Library holdings: 7,670
Bibliographic records: 353
Rank on complete list: 425

#73 American Tragedy

Theodore Dreiser
Library holdings: 7,637
Bibliographic records: 124
Rank on complete list: 430

#74 Separate Peace

John Knowles
Library holdings: 7,620
Bibliographic records: 65
Rank on complete list: 431

#75 Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath
Library holdings: 7,602
Bibliographic records: 62
Rank on complete list: 433

#76 Talmud
Library holdings: 7,567
Bibliographic records: 658
Rank on complete list: 436

#77 Mein Kampf

Adolf Hitler
Library holdings: 7,544
Bibliographic records: 183
Rank on complete list: 440

#78 James and the Giant Peach

Roald Dahl
Library holdings: 7,344
Bibliographic records: 94
Rank on complete list: 462

#79 Red Pony

John Steinbeck
Library holdings: 7,309
Bibliographic records: 114
Rank on complete list: 472

#80 Popol Vuh

Library holdings: 7,236
Bibliographic records: 324

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Rank on complete list: 480

#81 Metaphysics
Aristotle
Library holdings: 7,165
Bibliographic records: 253
Rank on complete list: 490

#82 Satyricon
Petronius
Library holdings: 7,141
Bibliographic records: 368
Rank on complete list: 496

#83 Affluent Society

John Kenneth Galbraith
Library holdings: 7,068
Bibliographic records: 42
Rank on complete list: 509

#84 Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder
Library holdings: 7,055
Bibliographic records: 97
Rank on complete list: 512

#85 Institutes of the Christian Religion

Jean Calvin
Library holdings: 7,011
Bibliographic records: 285
Rank on complete list: 523

#86 Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Library holdings: 6,993
Bibliographic records: 180
Rank on complete list: 527

#87 Slaughterhouse Five

Kurt Vonnegut
Library holdings: 6,988
Bibliographic records: 89
Rank on complete list: 528

#88 Clan of the Cave Bear

Jean M. Auel
Library holdings: 6,909
Bibliographic records: 50
Rank on complete list: 540

#89 Black Boy

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Richard Wright
Library holdings: 6,794
Bibliographic records: 83
Rank on complete list: 567

#90 Spirit of the Laws

Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
Library holdings: 6,778
Bibliographic records: 255
Rank on complete list: 569

#91 Julie of the Wolves

Jean Craighead George
Library holdings: 6,603
Bibliographic records: 82
Rank on complete list: 599

#92 Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Library holdings: 6,498
Bibliographic records: 165
Rank on complete list: 627

#93 Power and the Glory

Graham Greene
Library holdings: 6,479
Bibliographic records: 134
Rank on complete list: 635

#94 Black Like Me

John Howard Griffin
Library holdings: 6,467
Bibliographic records: 46
Rank on complete list: 636

#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble

William Steig
Library holdings: 6,211
Bibliographic records: 61
Rank on complete list: 689

#96 Sanctuary
William Faulkner
Library holdings: 6,173
Bibliographic records: 128
Rank on complete list: 701

#97 As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner
Library holdings: 6,145
Bibliographic records: 94
Rank on complete list: 707

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#98 Sorrows of Young Werther

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Library holdings: 6,130
Bibliographic records: 487
Rank on complete list: 713

#99 Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood
Library holdings: 5,992
Bibliographic records: 60
Rank on complete list: 754

#100 Chocolate War

Robert Cormier
Library holdings: 5,929
Bibliographic records: 51
Rank on complete list: 784

#101 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Dee Alexander Brown
Library holdings: 5,847
Bibliographic records: 17
Rank on complete list: 810

#102 Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess
Library holdings: 5,838
Bibliographic records: 67
Rank on complete list: 813

#103 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud
Library holdings: 5,813
Bibliographic records: 144
Rank on complete list: 820

#104 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman

Ernest J. Gaines
Library holdings: 5,688
Bibliographic records: 38
Rank on complete list: 851

#105 Émile
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Library holdings: 5,615
Bibliographic records: 231
Rank on complete list: 872

#106 Nana
Émile Zola

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Library holdings: 5,605

Bibliographic records: 294
Rank on complete list: 880

#107 Go Tell It on the Mountain

James Baldwin
Library holdings: 5,582
Bibliographic records: 55
Rank on complete list: 886

#108 Gulag Archipelago

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Library holdings: 5,548
Bibliographic records: 80
Rank on complete list: 896

#109 Stranger in a Strange Land

Robert A. Heinlein
Library holdings: 5,466
Bibliographic records: 44
Rank on complete list: 929

#110 Flowers for Algernon

Daniel Keyes
Library holdings: 5,396
Bibliographic records: 49
Rank on complete list: 955

#111 Day No Pigs Would Die

Robert Peck
Library holdings: 5,332
Bibliographic records: 49
Rank on complete list: 983

#112 Ox-Bow Incident

Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Library holdings: 5,321
Bibliographic records: 47
Rank on complete list: 988

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