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Banned Books Adapted for Film

Banned Books Week is a national event celebrating the importance of reading and the freedom of the First Amendment. Here are some of the most popular banned books celebrated during Banned Books Week and their corresponding movies:

1984 by George Orwell

All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Beloved by Toni Morrison 

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

Ordinary People by Judith Guest 

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton 

Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut  

Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Ulysses by James Joyce

 

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