Banned books? These are the 50 most surprising and unlikely novels to have been banned, censored and challenged throughout history.

Banned books: 50 books that have been banned by governments

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A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl

Animal Farm by George Orwell

A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Fifty Shades of Grey by EL James

Forever by Judy Blume

For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Letters From Burma by Aung San Suu Kyi

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody

Operation Dark Heart by Lt. Col Anthony Shaffer

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Steal This Book by Abbie Hoffman

Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig

The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Blue Lotus by Herge

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Complete Fairy Tales Of The Brothers Grimm by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Famous Five by Enid Blyton

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

The Well Of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Ulysses by James Joyce

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Wild Swans by Jung Chang

Where's Waldo? by Martin Handford

These are the 50 most surprising and unlikely novels to have been banned, censored and challenged throughout history.

50 banned books from recent history (including Harry Potter)