Banned Book Week - What have you read?

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For Banned Book week, I thought I'd list the classics that have been banned or at least challenged. Then I found this top 100 banned/challenged book list by the Radcliffe Publishing Company. Click here to see only a list of the classics that are banned and why/how that happened.
We've included grades next to them (T = Trackgeek, R = Raspberry), and some notes if necessary. Of course, we haven't read everything. Well, we try - it's embarrassing how many we haven't read, but keep in mind we probably have read other books by these authors. Feel free to take this list and do the same...or just comment and tell us any opinions you're just dying to spill.

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
R - This is hard to grade because I love the writing, but hate the story. So..in a compromise, graded a B+.
T - It's been too long since I've read it, but perhaps a B.
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
T - It used to be an A-, but lately after rereading it, I'd give it a B+.
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
R - I don't remember much, except that I was bored out of my mind in high school. So, years later going on what I roughly remember....graded a B?
T - An A-.
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
R - Solid A.
T - An A.
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
R - It has been too long - I can't possibly remember enough to grade it.
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
T - An A-.
9. 1984 by George Orwell
R - Incredible, but I must confess I was bothered by a few things, enough to put it down. Even still, it was so good up to that point that it's a B+.
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
R - I absolutely loath this book.
13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
R - An A-.
T - An A.
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
R - B+.
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
R - Also not a fan of this one.
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
T - A B+. Best Hemingway I've read.
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
T - People making repetitive dumb choices, so a C.
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
R - Definitely an A.
23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
T - Did NOT like this book. A C-.
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
R - An A-, although it is a bit graphic for a teenager.
T - About a B+.
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
R - An A-.
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
T - An F.
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
R - An F. I'm sorry, I know everyone loves this. I couldn't stand it.
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
R - It's been a long time, so I can't honestly give it a grade, but I know I like it a lot.
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
R - An A-, but only after I read it a second time.
40. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
R - An A, of course.
T - An A.
41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
R - I thought it was an A-, but then I found out what most people think the symbolism is and what they guy was thinking....and then didn't like it so much.
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
R - Well, a B? B-?
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
R - An enjoyable book, probably a B, but as a kid you like it more.
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
R - I swing back and forth on this one. Sometimes it's an A-, sometimes it's a B-. Anyone got a solid grade for it?
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
R - Never quite finished it, so don't feel qualified to grade it.
T - An A-, it was a very good book.
52. Howards End by E. M. Forster
R - I tried. OH I tried. Ended up watching the movie - which I still didn't quite get.
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
R - Very good, definitely an A/A-, it's hard to pin down because it's been a couple years.
62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
68. Light in August by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
R - It's James. No matter how good the writing and the plot, in the end it's hard to read 700 pages of 'what was he thinking about'. But this one I'd give a B+.
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
R - Very good, a B+.
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
R - Not done yet, got side-tracked by books I don't own - interesting movie.
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
R - B-. I was mostly bored.
T - An A-, the first one is the best.
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
R - An A-. Watch out for some swearing.
T - I have it checked out with the Thin Man from the Library.
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
R - Fun, especially when you know some background about it. B/B+.
86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
R - sigh. I'm not a fan of Conrad. But...this one isn't so bad that I hated it. So, B.
87. The Bostonians by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
R - Definitely an A.
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
R - I've read it, but I don't remember it well enough to grade.
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

R = 32.
T = 13.