Banned Books Week 2017 started on Sunday, Sept. 24.

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Banned Books Week 2017 is designed to bring awareness to the number of books that face bans and censorship in the United States. The week-long event celebrates the First Amendment, which protects free speech.

Here is a list of titles that you can read for Banned Books Week 2017 that have stirred up controversy in the U.S.

• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn — Mark Twain
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X and Alex Haley
• Beloved — Toni Morrison
• Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee — Dee Brown
• The Call of the Wild —  Jack London
• Catch-22 — Joseph Heller
• The Catcher in the Rye —  J.D. Salinger
• Fahrenheit 451 — Ray Bradbury
• For Whom the Bell Tolls — Ernest Hemingway
• Gone With the Wind — Margaret Mitchell
• The Grapes of Wrath — John Steinbeck
• The Great Gatsby — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Howl — Allen Ginsberg
• In Cold Blood —  Truman Capote
• Invisible Man — Ralph Ellison
• The Jungle — Upton Sinclair
• Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
• Moby-Dick — Herman Melville
• Native Son —  Richard Wright
• Our Bodies, Ourselves — Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
• The Red Badge of Courage — Stephen Crane
• The Scarlet Letter — Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Sexual Behavior in the Human Male — Alfred C. Kinsey
• Stranger in a Strange Land — Robert A. Heinlein
• A Streetcar Named Desire — Tennessee Williams
• Their Eyes Were Watching God — Zora Neale Hurston
• To Kill a Mockingbird — Harper Lee
• Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Where the Wild Things Are — Maurice Sendak
• The Words of Cesar Chavez — Cesar Chavez

You can learn more about these books that were banned, and Banned Books Week 2017 in general, by following this link.

As of this writing, William White did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities.