Book-banning is an unfortunate feature of our civilization, and it's been around for quite a while. Some books generate more controversy and get banned far more than others. This collection was created to assemble them under one umbrella. This book features an introductory essay on the state of US book censorship in 2023, as well as historical context and commentary for all 32 books contained within. The titles 1. Adam Bede (1859) By George Eliot 2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) By Mark Twain 3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 4. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) By Mark Twain 5. The Age of Reason (1794) By Thomas Paine 6. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland (1865) By Lewis Carroll 7. An American Tragedy (1925) by Theodore Dreiser 8. The Awakening (1899) By Kate Chopin 9. The Call of The Wild (1903) By Jack London 10. Candide (1759) By Voltaire 11. Confessions (1782) By Jean-Jacques Rousseau 12. Droll Stories (1831) By Honore De Balzac 13. The Decameron (1353) By Giovanni Boccaccio 14. Elmer Gantry (1927) Sinclair Lewis 15. Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) By John Cleland 16. The Great Gatsby (1925) By F. Scott Fitzgerald 17. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1831) By Victor Hugo 18. The Jungle (1906) By Upton Sinclair 19. Leaves of Grass (1897) By Walt Whitman 20. Lysistrata (411BC) By Aristophanes 21. Madame Bovary (1857) By Gustave Flaubert 22. Moll Flanders (1722) By Daniel Defoe 23. The Rights of Man (1791) By Thomas Paine 24. Salammbo (1896) By Gustave Flaubert 25. Silas Marner, The Weaver of Raveloe (1861) By George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) 26. Sister Carrie (1900) By Theodore Dreiser 27. Sons and Lovers (1913) By D.H. Lawrence 28. The Scarlet Letter (1850) By Nathaniel Hawthorne 29. The Sun Also Rises (1926) By Ernest Hemingway 30. Ulysses (1922) By James Joyce 31. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) By Harriet Beecher Stowe 32. Women In Love (1920) By D. H. Lawrence All the original formatting and indentation has been if some paragraphs seem abnormally long, that's by design. Unfortunately, due to e-book size constraints, all the original book illustrations had to be removed.