| #8473, aired 2021-09-22 | WHAT A WEEK! $800: One sponsor of Banned Books Week, which opposes censorship & celebrates the right to read, is the ALA, short for this the American Library Association |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $200: In 2013 this racy E.L. James trilogy was pulled from library shelves in Florida only to return due to public demand Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $400: Nearly 50 years after it was published, her "Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret" is still being challenged (Judy) Blume |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $600: A landmark obscenity case in 1933 lifted a ban in the U.S. on this James Joyce work Ulysses |
| #7888, aired 2018-12-19 | CHALLENGED & BANNED BOOKS $800: Many schools banned this Anthony Burgess novel due to its extreme violence A Clockwork Orange |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $400: Poor grammar was one reason the Concord, Mass. library banned this Twain novel 1 month after it was published in 1885 Huckleberry Finn |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $800: "Madame Bovary" provoked so much outrage it was banned & this author faced immorality charges Gustave Flaubert |
| #7670, aired 2018-01-05 | BOOKS & AUTHORITIES $2000: For openly dealing with apartheid, some of this woman's novels were banned in her native South Africa Nadine Gordimer |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $400: This H.G. Bissinger book about a small-town Texas football squad was oft-penalized Friday Night Lights |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $800: "The Perks of Being" this by Steven Chbosky became an Emma Watson film & got itself banned The Perks of Being a Wallflower |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $1200: Dav Pilkey made the list with his cheeky series about the character seen here, named Captain this Captain Underpants |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $1600: Profanity was one objection to this Katherine Paterson book about a structure to a fantastic place Bridge to Terabithia |
| #7564, aired 2017-06-29 | FREQUENTLY BANNED BOOKS $2000: The spectrum of challenged books includes "The Color Purple" & this first novel by Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye |
| #6878, aired 2014-07-09 | ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT $600: This author's crime? Discussing banned books in the Petrashevsky Circle group in 1849; punishment? 4 years in Siberia Dostoyevsky |
| #6807, aired 2014-04-01 | AMERICAN NOVELISTS $400: In 1961 the ban on his "Tropic of Cancer" was lifted in the U.S., & soon many of his other banned books were issued (Henry) Miller |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $200: A North Carolina county board made this 1952 Ralph Ellison classic disappear, saying it didn't have "any literary value" Invisible Man |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $400: A Florida county pulled this 2011 E.L. James book from libraries, but it came back "in response to public demand" Fifty Shades of Grey |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $600: This 1985 Margaret Atwood novel was challenged in N.C. as "sexually explicit, violently graphic and morally corrupt" The Handmaid's Tale |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $800: A beef with his "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" on a Penn. reading list: "sexual content &... there is nothing good about it" Tom Wolfe |
| #6778, aired 2014-02-19 | RECENTLY BANNED OR CHALLENGED BOOKS $1000: A Katy, Texas school district didn't have a Jane Smiley face after complaints about this numerically titled book A Thousand Acres |
| #6528, aired 2013-01-23 | BANNED! $400: One of the first books banned by the Nazis was this 1929 antiwar novel made into a 1930 movie All Quiet on the Western Front |
| #5769, aired 2009-10-15 | FAMOUS O'BRIENS $400: Edna O'Brien's frank depiction of women's lives has gotten her books banned in this, her native country Ireland |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | BANNED BOOKS $400: This 1951 J.D. Salinger work The Catcher in the Rye |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | BANNED BOOKS $800: Laura Ingalls Wilder's 1935 book Little House on the Prairie |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | BANNED BOOKS $1200: Anthony Burgess' 1962 tale of juvenile delinquency A Clockwork Orange |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | BANNED BOOKS $1600: Giovanni Boccaccio's 1353 collection of tales The Decameron |
| #5728, aired 2009-07-01 | BANNED BOOKS $2000: Daniel Keyes' 1966 novel of mouse & man Flowers for Algernon |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | BANNED BOOKS $200: This story was banned in California because the heroine was bringing wine as well as food to her grandma "Little Red Riding Hood" |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | BANNED BOOKS $400: Predictably, in 1967, "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes was banned in this country then controlled by a military junta Greece |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | BANNED BOOKS $600: England indicted this supporter of the Revolutionary War for his "Rights of Man" & his publisher was prosecuted Thomas Paine |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | BANNED BOOKS $800: In 1929 Italy banned his "Call of the Wild" & Yugoslavia banned all of his books as being too radical Jack London |
| #5341, aired 2007-11-26 | BANNED BOOKS $1000: Viola's crossdressing in this Shakespeare play ran afoul of a N.H. Prohibition of Alternative Lifestyle Act Twelfth Night |
| #5033, aired 2006-06-28 | FAMILIAR PHRASES $600: The expression "Banned in" this city came from that city's enthusiastic censorship of books in the 1920s Boston |
| #4948, aired 2006-03-01 | THE 16th CENTURY $800: In 1559, during Pope Paul IV's reign, the church first published this banned-reading list the Index of Forbidden Books |
| #3766, aired 2001-01-08 | "CAT"ECHISM $500: A long list of things, like banned books Catalog |
| #3474, aired 1999-10-14 | BANNED! $700 (Daily Double): This Mark Twain work was fourth on the list of "The Most Frequently Banned Books in the 1990s" Huckleberry Finn |
| #2687, aired 1996-04-16 | LITERATURE $600: Like his "Tropic" books, his trilogy "The Rosy Crucifixion" was banned from the U.S. for many years (Henry) Miller |
| #1910, aired 1992-12-18 | FEMALE NOBEL LAUREATES $1,000 (Daily Double): 3 of 1991 Literature winner Nadine Gordimer's books were banned in this, her home country South Africa |
| #1474, aired 1991-01-17 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $200: Manuel Puig's novel about the kiss of this woman was banned in his native Argentina "The Kiss of the Spider Woman" |
| #1287, aired 1990-03-20 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $400: His "Tropic"al books created topical controversy & were banned in the U.S. for many years Henry Miller |
| #820, aired 1988-03-11 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $1000: In 1987, the British government banned papers from printing excerpts from this Peter Wright bestseller Spycatcher |
| #775, aired 1988-01-08 | CENSORSHIP $600: In the 1910s, her birth control books were banned in NY & her husband was arrested for giving one away Margaret Sanger |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $200: Calling him an anti-red rebel, E. Berlin schools banned this rodent's comic books in 1954 Mickey Mouse |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $400: In 1923, 500 copies of this James Joyce novel were burned by the U.S. Post Office Ulysses |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $600: Published only in the West, "Dr. Zhivago" won him Nobel Prize, which he was forced to refuse Boris Pasternak |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $800: Published in 1900, his "Sister Carrie" was still banned in Vermont in 1958 Theodore Dreiser |
| #288, aired 1985-10-16 | BANNED BOOKS $1000: Banned in St. Paul in 1946, this E. Caldwell novel was readily available across river in Minneapolis God's Little Acre |
