+shopthebookworm Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Have you ever read a banned book? This title made the list and so many more. Come to the store today to get 20% off in the Classics section and see how many have been banned by so many! More to come on that subject but tell me, what banned book have you read? Link to post Share on other sites
Bizmo Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 I'm still searching for a complete list of all books that have been challenged and/or banned over the years. But I was surprised to see so many books that are now considered classics on several lists. I mean really...The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men? Two of my favorites. I never tire of reading them. Steinbeck was one of the greatest writers imho. His words had a way of making you be able to not only picture what he was describing, but to feel, see, and yes, even taste it. I remember reading "The Pearl" when I was about 11 or 12 and just bugging the local librarian until she would let me rent all the others. Link to post Share on other sites
bvrat5199 Posted September 17, 2010 Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 Have you ever read a banned book? This title made the list and so many more. Come to the store today to get 20% off in the Classics section and see how many have been banned by so many! More to come on that subject but tell me, what banned book have you read? Yup. A lot of the banned books were required reading in High School. Link to post Share on other sites
+shopthebookworm Posted September 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 17, 2010 I'm still searching for a complete list of all books that have been challenged and/or banned over the years. But I was surprised to see so many books that are now considered classics on several lists. I mean really...The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men? Two of my favorites. I never tire of reading them. Steinbeck was one of the greatest writers imho. His words had a way of making you be able to not only picture what he was describing, but to feel, see, and yes, even taste it. I remember reading "The Pearl" when I was about 11 or 12 and just bugging the local librarian until she would let me rent all the others. A good list, but not sure it is complete. Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Blubber by Judy Blume Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Christine by Stephen King Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cujo by Stephen King Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Decameron by Boccaccio East of Eden by John Steinbeck Fallen Angels by Walter Myers Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Forever by Judy Blume Grendel by John Champlin Gardner Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Have to Go by Robert Munsch Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Impressions edited by Jack Booth In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Lord of the Flies by William Golding Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein Lysistrata by Aristophanes More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier My House by Nikki Giovanni My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara Night Chills by Dean Koontz Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ordinary People by Judith Guest Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Separate Peace by John Knowles Silas Marner by George Eliot Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Bastard by John Jakes The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks The Living Bible by William C. Bower The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders The Shining by Stephen King The Witches by Roald Dahl The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth Link to post Share on other sites
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