To begin with, Wikipedia has a list of the most commonly banned or challenged books in the US.

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Here's the ones on that list I've read, with those items marked by a * symbol being ones I read for class.

1984*

Bless Me, Ultima*

Brave New World*

Bridge To Terabithia

The Great Gatsby*

Heart of Darkness*

How To Eat Fried Worms

In The Night Kitchen

A Light In The Attic

Lord Of The Flies*

Of Mice And Men*

To Kill A Mockingbird

Where's Waldo

A Wrinkle In Time*

1984

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Anarchist Cookbook

Captain Underpants

Carrie

The Catcher in the Rye

Christine

A Clockwork Orange

Flowers For Algernon

The Grapes of Wrath

Little Black Sambo (It was read to me as a child)

Lord of the Flies

Of Mice and Men

The Sun Also Rises

Where's Waldo?

Um....I didn't realize my reading list was so interesting. I consider many of these classics. I realize that this list is from 1990-2000, therefore the Harry Potter series had not been published. I hesitate to mention this, but there are some that I thought would make the list that didn't (thank God!). Chief among them is Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. It is one of my favorite works. I have my own copy, so I needn't worry.

OK, my last one, The Satanic Bible. Apparently, Nazism and Satanism are alright by this lists standards!

Many books particularly on Psychic Development was not really banned, but considered dangerous to the masses...in the Philippines, for many are brought to the Psychiatrist/hospitals....

Books on how to contact Fairies - Encanto de Dios

Books on Witchcrafts & mysticm

Books on Unlocking Psychic developemnts

Books on how to contact on the other side.

Accdng. to RC church, only Arch Angel Michael & his legions can go to the other side, to take some souls to the Light, through novena prayers.

The Tibetan monks hadth seven years underground to develop thier psyche, through prayers & mediatations...

Fairies are elementals, accdg. to RC church, they are fallen angels....

Jun 8, 2009 -- 12:23PM, appy20 wrote:

I have read the overwhelming majority of the list.  A lot of them I loved.   Two that I did not see on that list is Harry Potter and Catcher in the Rye.   Both favorites. 

However, my number one favorite on the list is To Kill a Mockingbird. 

The sad thing is many of these books are insightful, poignant and profound. Almost all are well-done.

Which is precisely why some wanted them banned!  After all you can not allow dangerous ideas like racial equality or economic justice to be presented in a comopassionate and compellinig fashion!!  Crap doesn't get widely read and influence minds, good writing does.