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Banned books
Author: elwing
• Monday, July 12th, 2004

From Poppy and Fazia:

Banned!
How daring are you? Do you read “bad books”?

Here’s what to do:
Copy the following list into your journal. Bold the books that you own or have read. Pass it on.

What’s amusing is that I read most of these books while in school - usually for class reading. Some on my own, but not that many. Maybe I should add the ones I haven’t read to my reading list

  • 1984 . George Orwell.
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens].
  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll.
  • Analects. Confucius.
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank
  • Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights. Anonymous.
  • Beloved. Toni Morrison.
  • The Bible.
  • Brave New World. Aldous Huxley.
  • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Dee Brown.
  • The Call of the Wild. Jack London.
  • Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer.
  • Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger.
  • The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. Vito Russo.
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Roald Dahl.
  • Clan of the Cave Bear. Jean Auel.
  • The Color Purple. Alice Walker.
  • The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jacob and Wilhelm K. Grimm.
  • Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Galilei Galileo.
  • Different Seasons. Stephen King.
  • A Doll’s House. Henrik Ibsen.
  • Don Quixote. Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes.
  • Earth Science. American Book.
  • The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
  • Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury.
  • The Figure in the Shadows. John Bellairs.
  • Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell.
  • Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck.
  • The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher. M.C. Escher.
  • Grendel. John C. Gardner.
  • Gulliver’s Travels. Jonathan Swift.
  • Hamlet. William Shakespeare.
  • The Happy Prince and Other Stories. Oscar Wilde.
  • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou.
  • It. Stephen King.
  • James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl.
  • King Lear. William Shakespeare.
  • The Koran.
  • Le Morte D’Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory.
  • The Life and Times of Renoir. Janice Anderson.
  • A Light in the Attic. Shel Silverstein.
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis.
  • Little House in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder.
  • Little House on the Prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder.
  • The Lorax. Dr. Seuss.
  • The Lords of Discipline. Pat Conroy.
  • The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury.
  • My Friend Flicka. Mary O’Hara.
  • The Odyssey. Homer.
  • On the Origin of Species. Charles B. Darwin.
  • Paradise Lost. John Milton.
  • Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry.
  • The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. Jim Miller, ed.
  • The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie.
  • Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  • Song of Solomon. Toni Morrison.
  • The Stand. Stephen King.
  • The Talmud. Soncino Pr.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee.
  • Tom Jones. Henry Fielding.
  • Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare.
  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
  • Vasilissa the Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales.
  • Welcome to the Monkey House. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends. Shel Silverstein.
  • Where’s Waldo? Martin Handford.
  • The Witches of Worm. Zilpha Keatley Snyder.
  • A Wrinkle In Time. Madeleine L’Engle.
  • Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings. D.T. Suzuki.

Fazia also provided a link explaining why these books were banned in the first place.

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    obso1337 dot org » Banned Books: What have YOU read? (via Pingback)
    Wednesday, 14. July 2004

    [...] tations do not count ;P) This list was forwarded to me by Elwing. Be sure to check out her list. As with Elwing, many of these books I read in High School o [...]

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