Taboo:Banned Books Class

Taboo:Banned Books Class

Columbia College Chicago
Department of English

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Main Novel Profiles Student Suggested Readings

Browse Books by the Reason They Were Banned:

Bad for Morality
Bad for Gods and Government
Bad for Children

Current Semester's Books

July’s People
by Nadine Gordimer

Lolita
by Vladimir Nabokov

Sandman V. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
by Neil Gaiman

Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie

The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison

Student Suggested Readings

1984
by George Orwell

American Psycho
by Bret Easton Ellis

Bastard Out Of Carolina
by Dorothy Allison

ENTER NOVEL TITLE HERE
by AUTHOR NAME

Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury

Handmaid’s Tale
by Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
by J.K. Rowling

Invisible Man
by Ralph Ellison

Lajja
by Taslima Nasrin

Looking For Alaska
by John Green

Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen Chbosky

Persepolis
by Marjane Satrapi

The Kite Runner
by Khaled Hosseini

Tropic of Cancer
by Henry Miller

Current Semester's Information

Taboo: Banned Global Novels
52-3690HN: Topics in the Novel (Honors)
Dr. Madhurima Chakraborty
moodle.colum.edu

Links

Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week on Youtube
Wikipedia: List of Books Banned by Governments (International)
Book Burning Incidents
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