Book Lists II

[tarotgal]

And now some lists of banned/challenged books


The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999:

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
   
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
   
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
   
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
   
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
   
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
   
7. Forever by Judy Blume
   
8. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson -sob
   
9. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
   
10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
    
11. The Giver by Lois Lowry
    
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
    
13. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
    
14. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
    
15. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
    
16. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
    
17. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
    
18. Sex by Madonna
    
19. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
    
20. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
    
21. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
    
22. The Witches by Roald Dahl
    
23. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
    
24. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
    
25. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
    
26. The Goats by Brock Cole
    
27. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
    
28. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
    
29. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
    
30. Blubber by Judy Blume
    
31. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
    
32. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
    
33. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
    
34. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
    
35. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
    
36. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
    
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
    
38. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
    
39. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
    
40. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    
41. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
    
42. Deenie by Judy Blume
    
43. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    
44. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
    
45. Beloved by Toni Morrison
    
46. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
    
47. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
    
48. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
    
49. Cujo by Stephen King
    
50. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
    
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
    
52. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
    
53. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
    
54. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    
55. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
    
56. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
    
57. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
    
58. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
    
59. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
    
60. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
    
61. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
    
62. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
    
63. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
    
64. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
    
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
    
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
    
67. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    
68. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    
69. Native Son by Richard Wright
    
70. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
    
71. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
    
72. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
    
73. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
    
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
    
75. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
    
76. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
    
77. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
    
78. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
    
79. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
    
80. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
    
81. Carrie by Stephen King
    
82. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
    
83. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
    
84. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
    
85. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
    
86. Private Parts by Howard Stern
    
87. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
    
88. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
    
89. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
    
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
    
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
    
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
    
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
    
94. Jumper by Steven Gould
    
95. Christine by Stephen King
    
96. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
    
97. That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton
    
98. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
    
99. The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
    
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
     

Hrm... 25/100... that's not a good thing. Then again, some of these I probably wouldn't go out and read even if they are challenged... as much as I stick up for challenged and banned books. They're just not necessarily my age group (i.e. I know how babies are made already)




Another list of banned or challenged books at the Forbidden library

1. 1984- George Orwell
   
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer- Mark Twain
   
3. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
   
4. Analects- Confucius
   
5. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl- Anne Frank
   
6. Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights- Anonymous
   
7. Beloved- Toni Morrison
   
8. The Bible- William Tyndale
   
9. Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
   
10. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee- Dee Brown
    
11. The Call of the Wild- Jack London
    
12. Canterbury Tales- Geoffrey Chaucer
    
13. Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger
    
14. The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies- Vito Russo
    
15. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Roald Dahl
    
16. Clan of the Cave Bear- Jean Auel
    
17. The Color Purple- Alice Walker
    
18. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm- Jacob and Wilhelm K. Grimm
    
19. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems- Galilei Galileo
    
20. Different Seasons- Stephen King
    
21. A Doll's House- Henrik Ibsen
    
22. Don Quixote- Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes
    
23. Earth Science
    
24. The Egypt Game- Zilpha Keatley Snyder
    
25. Fahrenheit 451- Ray Bradbury
    
26. The Figure in the Shadows- John Bellairs
    
27. Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell
    
28. Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck
    
29. The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher. M.C. Escher- one of my favorite artists
    
30. Grendel. John C. Gardner
    
31. Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift
    
32. Hamlet. William Shakespeare
    
33. The Happy Prince and Other Stories. Oscar Wilde
    
34. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou
    
35. It. Stephen King.
    
36. James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl
    
37. King Lear. William Shakespeare
    
38. The Koran
    
39. Le Morte D'Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory
    
40. The Life and Times of Renoir. Janice Anderson
    
41. A Light in the Attic. Shel Silverstein
    
42. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis
    
43. Little House in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder
    
44. Little House on the Prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder
    
45. The Lorax. Dr. Seuss
    
46. The Lords of Discipline. Pat Conroy
    
47. The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury
    
48. My Friend Flicka. Mary O'Hara
    
49. The Odyssey. Homer
    
50. On the Origin of Species. Charles B. Darwin- my boyfriend reads a lot of this stuff and bought this, I've read some of it through there and some in classes
    
51. Paradise Lost. John Milton
    
52. Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry
    
53. The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. Jim Miller, ed. Random.
    
54. The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie
    
55. Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    
56. Song of Solomon. Toni Morrison.
    
57. The Stand. Stephen King
    
58. The Talmud. Soncino Pr
    
59. To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee
    
60. Tom Jones. Henry Fielding
    
61. Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare
    
62. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe
    
63. Vasilissa the Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales
    
64. Welcome to the Monkey House. Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Delacorte
    
65. Where the Sidewalk Ends. Shel Silverstein
    
66. Where's Waldo? Martin Handford
    
67. The Witches of Worm. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
    
68. A Wrinkle In Time. Madeleine L'Engle
    
69. Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings
    
    My count's 31/69. Not too bad either! If you're interested, it's worth checking out the list for the reasons and places why and where these were banned or challenged
    
    
    Everyone read a banned/challenged book today! Support freedom of thought! :-)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's just so WRONG!! *jumping up and down in outrage* Wrong!!! Ack! What's WRONG with these people?! What's wrong with books like "Clan of the Cave Bear"?! (I love that book! *sob*) Twelfth Night?! Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?! Canterbury Tales?! Call of the Wild?! LITTLE HOUSE IN BIG WOODS?! Omg... I can't cope!

I am avidly against censorship. Ack!! I can see the point behind it, at times, but it's still wrong. Even if we can't handle the real truth like aliens (hehehe, too much X-Files), we can handle books on things like sex! (What, are we all products of immaculate conception? *snort*) And alternate religions to Christianity. And all that. But then... Little House In Big Woods?!

Grrr.

Thanks for turning a spotlight on the stupidity of people *l* Now I'm going to rant about it to myself for the rest of the night!

girlwithtulips

[tarotgal]

Oh, I completely agree! I don't understand why close-minded people want the rest of us to be so close-minded as well.

If I remember correctly... I think Clan of the Cave Bear was because of graphic violence and possibly also sexual themes. Twelfth Night was because it promoted a homosexual lifestyle (hrmm... maybe I'll have to read that one!). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory apparently promotes an undesireable lifestyle as well(what??? don't be fat and greedy and waste your life watching tv and instead follow rules and have a good heart? Boy, I can see that's dangerous!)
I grew up with the Little House series... my favorite has always been Little House in the Big Woods- something wonderfully comforting about picking it up and reading it again. It was banned because it promotes racial epithets! Similarly, ...the Prarie paints some Native Americans in a negative way. UG People have no common sense any longer.

I completely agree with you. My childhood especially would be very empty had I not read the books on the list that I did. OK, apparently none of them helped me with my grammar, but you know what I'm saying LOL Alternate points of view and representations of the world (not to mention the truth!) are not things to ban. OK, so I wouldn't want a 4 year old reading Madonna's Sex book... but come on, that doesn't mean BAN it! That freedom of speech thing is kind of an important part of this country!

[(Anonymous)]

But... but... *l* I am still having trouble grasping the concept! *l* like you, I absolutely loved Little House *g* I've read the series over and over again (your list even inspired me to pick it up again last night), and the thought of anyone wanting to ban it... *shakes head*

Promotes racial epithets? Off the top of my head, I can't think of a place where it does. And portrays Native Americans badly? Pfft. So, lets turn everything into Fairyland or something. And because Ma says "the only good Indian is a dead Indian"? But Laura and Pa had differnt views on that! And besides, those views did exist and, if Laura was telling the truth, the Indians did come and take their food... so what? Let's rewrite history so everything can be politically correct? If that was the case, there'd be no point in writing history at all!

I'm still ranting, obviously *l*

Bah @ the idiots of the world.

girlwithtulips