Language
Language bans target books written in suppressed minority languages as instruments of cultural oppression. The Russian Empire banned Ukrainian-language publications in 1863 and again in 1876. Stalin's USSR suppressed dozens of Soviet minority languages. Spain's Franco regime restricted Catalan, Basque, and Galician publishing. To ban a language is to attempt to erase a culture.
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
Blubber
Judy Blume
Carrie
Stephen King
Crank
Ellen Hopkins
Eleanor & Park
Rainbow Rowell
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Fallen Angels
Walter Dean Myers
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
Fight Club
Chuck Palahniuk
Go Tell It on the Mountain
James Baldwin
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
It
Stephen King
Kaffir Boy
Mark Mathabane
Looking for Alaska
John Green
Maus
Art Spiegelman
Misery
Stephen King
Monster
Walter Dean Myers
Nickel and Dimed
Barbara Ehrenreich
Nineteen Minutes
Jodi Picoult
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred D. Taylor
Running Loose
Chris Crutcher
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Alvin Schwartz
Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson
Song of Solomon
Toni Morrison
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Sherman Alexie
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
The Book Thief
Markus Zusak
The Chocolate War
Robert Cormier
The Glass Castle
Jeannette Walls
The Hate U Give
Angie Thomas
The House of the Spirits
Isabel Allende
The Lord of the Flies
William Golding
The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
The Poisonwood Bible
Barbara Kingsolver
The Sound and the Fury
William Faulkner
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway
The Things They Carried
Tim O'Brien
Thirteen Reasons Why
Jay Asher
Water for Elephants
Sara Gruen
Whale Talk
Chris Crutcher