"Lady Chatterley's Lover" Is Among These Iconic Books That Have Been Banned

Given how many of us remember reading it in high school, it may be hard to believe that "The Great Gatsby" ($6) by F. Scott Fitzgerald has a history of being banned. Its depictions of hedonistic, adulterous socialites in Prohibition-era New York apparently have ruffled some feathers — and it's not all in the past, either! As recently as 2020, a school board in Alaska voted to remove "Gatsby" from the curriculum over "language and sexual references."