Join Journalism students as they read excerpts from a selection of banned or challenged books from the list of the Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century compiled by the Radcliffe Publishing Course.  

Tuesday, September 25
2:30 – 4:15 p.m.
First Floor Rotunda
Adler Journalism Building 

1. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

 2. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

 4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

 9. 1984 by George Orwell

 12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

 11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

 15. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

 18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 

 21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

 24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

 28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

 29. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

 49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

 53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

 97. Rabbit Run by John Updike

 And Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling

The numbers represent the book’s ranking on the top novels list. 

Readers are students in Law, Media and Current Issues, a course taught by Carolyn Stewart Dyer, professor of journalism and mass communication.  Banned Books Week is the American Library Association’s celebration of the freedom to read.