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    33 Must-Read Books To Celebrate Banned Books Week

    September 21 to September 27 is Banned Books Week. To celebrate, we found a bunch of books THE MAN doesn't want you to read. Fight the power! Read the books!

    1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson

    2. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

    3. Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

    4. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

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

    6. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

    7. Native Son by Richard Wright

    8. The Basketball Diaries by Jim Carroll

    9. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

    10. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich

    11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

    12. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell

    13. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

    14. Beloved by Toni Morrison

    15. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

    16. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

    17. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

    18. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

    19. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

    20. Deenie by Judy Blume

    21. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

    22. Moby-Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville

    23. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

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

    25. The Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank

    26. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

    27. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

    28. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

    29. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

    30. Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger

    31. Looking for Alaska by John Green

    32. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

    33. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak