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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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