PARTIAL LIST OF BOOKS BANNED BY THE ILLINOIS STATE LIBRARY
From a statement issued by the library on Dec. 17, 1953. Reprinted in the Moline Dispatch.
- The Curtain Never Falls, Joey Adams
- A House is Not a Home, Polly Adler
- Sex Life in Marriage, Oliver Butterfield
- Stories, Erskine Caldwell
- A Tree of Night and Other Stories, Truman Capote
- Attaining Manhood, George Washington Corner
- Attaining Womanhood, George Washington Corner
- 1919, John Dos Passos
- Son of the Giant, Stuart David Engstrand
- King’s Blood Royal, Sinclair Lewis
- My Gun is Quick, Frank Morrison Spillane
- The General’s Wench, Rosamond Van Der Zee Marshall
- The Weakling and the Enemy, Francois Mauriac
- The White Widows, Sam Merwin
- A Rage to Live, John O’Hara
- The Narrows, Ann Petry
- Mittee, Daphne Rooke
- Anyone’s My Name, Seymour Schubin
- Captive in the Night, Donald Hubert Stokes
- Abraham’s Wife, Francis J. Thompson
- Day of the Harvest, Helen Upshaw
- The Judgment of Paris, Gore Vidal
- The Red Dress, John Watson
- The Gates of Hell, Calder Willingham
- The Brother, Dorothy Wilson