The Mercer University Libraries celebrates Banned Books Week from September 18 through September 24. Check out the list of banned books and the displays at the Mercer libraries. For banned books lists and events, visit the American Library Association (ALA). 

Some reasons given for banning a book:

• Sex
• Drugs/alcohol
• Witchcraft
• Profanity
• Homosexuality
• Violence
• Suicide
• Rape
• Racial Content

List of Banned Books at Mercer University Libraries

• The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
• Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
• Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
• The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• Sophie’s Choice by William Styron
• Native Son by Richard Wright
• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
• Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
• Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
• Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
• Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
• Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. by Luis J. Rodríguez
• All American Boys by Jason Reynolds
• The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis
• A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
• Harriet, the Spy by Louise Fitzhugh