Banned or Challenged Non-Fiction

Each year, the third week in September is traditionally Banned Books Week – an entire week celebrating the freedom in America to read whatever we want, no matter what other individuals or groups may prefer. The majority of banned and challenged booklists are usually made up of fiction titles or works for children, so for the 2013 Banned Books Week observance, we thought we would shine a line on some of the adult non-fiction titles that have been banned or challenged at libraries somewhere in the United States over the past few decades.

Some titles not owned by the libraries are included in this list due to their classic nature, or their position as part of a series. If you see a title on this list that is not owned by Lincoln City Libraries, please consider ordering it through our Interlibrary Loan department.

	Inside the Company: CIA Diary Phillip Agee 327.12 Age		The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray 155.82 Her
	I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou B An424		Mein Kampf Adolf Hitler B H634
	Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln 944 Bai		Leviathan Thomas Hobbes 320.1 Hob
	The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 842 P84n or Boccaccio		Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying Derek Humphry 179.7 Hum
	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West Dee Brown 970.5 Bro		Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 193 Kan
	The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against the Presumed Extermination of European Jewry Arthur R. Butz 940.531 But		Howard Hughes: A Biography John Keats B H8667k
	In Cold Blood Truman Capote 364.152 Cap The 2013 Omaha Reads selection!		The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World Bjorn Lomborg 363.7 Lom
	Silent Spring Rachel Carson 632.9 Car		The Prince Niccolo Machiavelli 321 Mac
	Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President Jimmy Carter 973.926 Car		The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X and Alex Haley B M2853
	The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 821 Cha		The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963 William Manchester 973.922 M31d
	Soul on Ice Eldridge Cleaver 305.8 AfrYc		The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence Victor Marchetti 353.09 Mar
	The Joy of Sex Alex Comfort 613.96 Com		The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx 335.4 Mar
	Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII John Cornwell B P683c		Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa Mark Mathabane 968 Mat
	Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; or, The Preservation of Favored Species in the Struggle for Life Charles Darwin 575 Dar		The Rights of Man Thomas Paine 944.04 Pai
	Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Barbara Ehrenreich 305.569 Ehr		Always Running: La Vida Loca , Gang Days in L.A. Luis J. Rodriguez 364.109 Rod
	The Population Bomb Paul R. Ehrlich 304.6 Ehr		The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Alexandr Solzhenitsyn 365.45 Sol
	Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Sexual Fantasies Nancy Friday 306.7 Fri		America (the Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction Jon Stewart 320.91 Ste
	The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward Gibbon 937 Gib		Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Studs Terkel 331.2 Ter
	Life With Picasso Francoise Gilot 759.6 PicYg		The Glass Castle: A Memoir Jeanette Walls B W1547 A 2006 One Book – One Lincoln finalist!
	Howl Allen Ginsberg 811 Gin		Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth? Why Much of What We Teach About Evolution is Wrong Jonathan Wells 576.8 Wel
	Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust Daniel Jonah Goldhagen 940.531 Gol		Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 811 Whi
	Black Like Me John Howard Griffin 305.8 AfrYg

 

Compiled August 2013 Carrie K. | Adapted for the Web September 2013 sdc | Last updated June 2016 sdc