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This site mention a few occurences of actual book burning :
Ulysses, by James Joyce - Burned in the U.S. (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada (1922), England (1923) and banned in England (1929).
Slaughterhouse Five, by Kurt Vonnegut - Challenged in many communities, but burned in Drake, ND (1973).
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien - Burned in Alamagordo, NM (2001) outside Christ Community Church along with other Tolkien novels as satanic.
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck - Burned by the East St. Louis, IL Public Library (1939) and barred from the Buffalo, NY Public Library (1939) on the grounds that "vulgar words" were used.
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