Banned Books Week, sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA), celebrates the freedom to read and the First Amendment. Librarians stand against censorship and for free and open access to information.

ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom maintains a list of hundreds of books that have been banned from library shelves or challenged. Here are some that the DCTC Library owns:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Animal Farm by George Orwell

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The Call of the Wild by Jack London

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Celebrate the week by reading a banned book!