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Hello there Marauders! Happy Banned Book week to all. Sadly we are coming up on halfway through the week which means all the banned bookness is gone. Mrrrr.
However there are still a few more dirty little days to go . Make sure to hurry up and pick your selections for last weeks caption contest and get your submissions in. Tomorrow we will be drawing a winner as well as announcing an extra special challenge for the coming week. Also Friday make sure to check back for an extra steamyyy post, as well as Saturday for a final roundup of some literary links.
Today we are discussing the American Library Association's list of 100 most frequently banned or challenged books. Hopefully everyone out there has read at least 1 or 2 books on these lists. Possibly you had to read them in school (which rocks) or maybe you went out on your own and found them. Either way just having read 1 means that you have read a book that has caused controversy and discussion in literary land, which makes you o.k in our books.
Below you will find THE LIST. How many of these have you read. Between P&P we clocked in around 48.
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
52. Howards End, by E.M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz, by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
68. Light in August, by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise, by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
86. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians, by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
94. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster
99. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
So there you have it marauders! Not too shabby. How does your own personal list shape up? Any books you are surprised, not surprised, offended to see on our list? Be sure to check out our other banned booked theme posts from earlier this week, and keep stopping by for more literary goodness!
We want to hear from you!!
With a quick count up, I've read 15 books on that list! I am very surprised to see "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on there... I don't know what the guidelines are for books to become "banned" but this book was 1) enlightening and 2) HILARIOUS which I think are two excellent qualities. Also, who write trilogies of 5 books anymore? No one, that's who.
ReplyDelete73, I think. I'm not trying to exaggerate... I guess I'm simply drawn to deviant books.
ReplyDeleteAt a quick glance, I think I'm around 19 or so.
ReplyDelete@ Gabby - You know I was ab bit shocked by that one as well. Maybe parents think its to 'fun' for kids to be reading in class haha.
ReplyDelete@David - What a champ! We are the same way. Almost all of our favorite titles fall somewhere on the list. Looking forward to getting through more.
@Carol - Very nice! Now you have a nice list to choose from if you ever get stuck for TBR titles.
25 for me and I'm surprised that most of them were for high school classes :)
ReplyDeleteI've read 17 and most of them were required reading for high school. I'm surprised that Ethan Frome is on the list. I read it a few months ago and I can't figure out why they would ban it. Also, Winnie the Pooh?
ReplyDeleteI read 22 ... and have a few on my TBR list. Some of them just make no sense to me ... Winnie the Pooh?????? Really????
ReplyDeleteNot that ANY of them make sense but you kind of get why some were banned. Others just leave me scratching my head.
Only 46 of the 100 were confirmed as 'banned', according to the website.
ReplyDelete"The titles not in bold may have been banned or challenged, but we have not received any reports on them."
Am I the only one surprised by a lot of the books on this list? I mean, "A Room with a View"? This list could be mistaken for a great books list...it's pretty sad that people want to ban (or challenge) books like these.
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