The Richard Bland College Library does not ban these books or any others. Here's a sampling of book titles banned at some point since their date of publication:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
All The King’s Men - Robert Penn Warren
An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser
As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner
Beloved - Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
The Call of the Wild - Jack London
Carrie - Stephen King
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Daddy's Roommate - Michael Willhoite
Deliverance - James Dickey
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
From Here to Eternity - James Jones
Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
Heather Has Two Mommies - Leslea Newman
I, Claudius - Robert Graves
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
The Naked and the Dead - Norman Mailer
Native Son - Richard Wright
1984 - George Orwell
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Ordinary People - Judith Guest
Portnoy’s Complaint - Philip Roth
The Rainbow - D.H. Lawrence
Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser
Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
Sons and Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
Sophie’s Choice - William Styron
Studs Lonigan - James T. Farrell
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller
Ulysses - James Joyce
Women in Love - D.H. Lawrence

 

 

 

 

RBC student Christine Skirbunt with controversial book Go Ask Alice.

 

Banned books available in RBC collection.

 

The stacks area is redecorated in honor of Banned Books Week.

 

Banned books posters on display.