Banned Books Week

[Axel]

i think 'cause the original winnie the pooh books were like really racist or something..?

The Jungle Book is racist.

 

[StitchfansJr]

I read:
To Kill A Mockingbird
Of Mice & Men (Well, we're reading it right now, but we're almost done)
Farenheit 451
The Giver

I really want to read Uncle Tom's Cabin.

 

[softball chick]

From the list of 100 most banned books from 1990-2000 I've read:

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling*
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
The Witches by Roald Dahl
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee*
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes*
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford

* some of my all time favorite books

 

[AliceinHalloweentown]

My Brother Sam is Dead is on there too?

Well I've read that. Dang my Middle School/High School (both Catholic private, mind you) has had us read a ton of banne books xD:

 

[Mrs. Chamberlain]

I've read in school:

The Diary of Anne Frank
Catcher in the Rye
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (We read it in the 3rd grade)
Flowers For Algernon
Of Mice and Men
To Kill A Mockingbird
Bridge to Terabithia
Charlotte's Web
(There's more books on there that are required school reading in California)

I've read on my own:

All of the Harry Potter books
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Choke
American Psycho
Naked Lunch

 

[AmandaSparks730]

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain

3. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

4. Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

5. Andersonville (1955) by MacKinlay Kantor

6. Animal Farm by George Orwell

7. 1001 Arabian Nights by Geraldine McCaughrean

8. As I Lay Dying (1932) by William Faulkner

9. The ******* by John Jakes

10. Beloved by Toni Morrison

11. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

12. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

13. Blubber by Judy Blume

14. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

16. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

17. Call of the Wild by Jack London

18. Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce

19. Candide by Voltaire

20. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

21. Carrie by Stephen King

22. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

23. Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger

24. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

25. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

26. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

27. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

28. Color Purple by Alice Walker

29. Confessions by JeanbyJacques Rousseau

30. Christine by Stephen King

31. Cujo by Stephen King

32. Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen

33. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite

34. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

35. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

36. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

37. Decameron by Boccaccio

38. Dubliners by James Joyce

39. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

40. Fallen Angels by Walter Myers

41. Fanny Hill by John Cleland

42. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

43. Forever by Judy Blume

44. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

45. The Goats by Brock Cole

46. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

47. Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck

48. Grendel by John Champlin Gardner

49. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

50. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

51. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

52. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

53. Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

54. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

55. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

56. House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

57. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

58. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

59. I Have to Go by Robert Munsch

60. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

61. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

62. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

63. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

64. King Lear by William Shakespeare

65. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

66. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

67. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

68. Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov

69. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

70. Lysistrata by Aristophanes

71. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

72. Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

73. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

74. Monk by Matthew Lewis

75. Native Son by Richard Wright

76. ****** of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad

77. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

78. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

79. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

80. Ordinary People by Judith Guest

81. Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

82. Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective

83. Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth

84. Private Parts by Howard Stern

85. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

86. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

87. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

88. Separate Peace by John Knowles

89. Silas Marner by George Eliot

90. SlaughterhousebyFive by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

91. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

92. Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

93. The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman

94. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

95. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

96. Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

97. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

98. Ulysses by James Joyce

99. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

100. Wrinkle in Time byMadeleine L'Engle


And to a previous poster...

Why the HECK is "Where's Waldo?" banned?!?!? IT'S A KID'S HIDDEN PICTURE BOOK FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE!

I've also read The Giver by Lois Lowry. And other books with "magic" and whatnot. Lots of banned/challenged books fill my shelves. Oh, how naughty I am.

 

[marypops!]

Where's Waldo has a shirtless woman in it, in a beach scene. I believe that's why it's banned.

 

[m!ssemmx0]

* Lord of the Flies (reading it in English ATM)
* A Wrinkle in Time
* The Chocolate War
* The Giver
* Flowers for Algernon
* Diary of Anne Frank
* To Kill a Mockingbird
* Little Women
* Captain Underpants
* Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging
* Are You There God? It's Me Margaret
* Blubber
* Deenie
* Goosebumps (I loved these!)
* How To Eat Fried Worms
* A Light in the Attic
* The Outsiders (my favorite book ever)
* The Pigman
* Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Whoa, I've read tons of banned books.

 

[Mrs. Chamberlain]

i haven't read most of those, but again, i don't understand why many were banned. and i'm positive that the naked lunch was banned just because of the word naked in the title.

I think it was banned more due to content XD There's a lot of descriptive sex in it.

 

[Sparx]

I think it was banned more due to content XD There's a lot of descriptive sex in it.

thats very true, and while i've not read all of it, i do know a good deal about the author's style and the plot. and the orgy, pedophilia and child abuse all were rather quintessential to the story. this book has made top 100 lists of books in the english language. so evidently some people like it.

 

[Mrs. Chamberlain]

thats very true, and while i've not read all of it, i do know a good deal about the author's style and the plot. and the orgy, pedophilia and child abuse all were rather quintessential to the story. this book has made top 100 lists of books in the english language. so evidently some people like it.

I read it and it was... Insanely weird XD

 

[::Snow_White::]

We're reading scarlet letter this year for our honors too. I saw that other list that has Winnie the Pooh on it and I was wondering why it was banned. I remember Charlotte's web being banned because of talking animals.

 

[Sparx]

I read it and it was... Insanely weird XD

i really do feel like those who banned it couldn't accept it at any of a higher meaning level, you know? i mean its obvious that those who ban books are desperately narrow minded, and i feel that they genuinely do not understand the points of the stories (which is illustrated through the obviously ignorant banning of F451 and the giver. i mean, if they understood the point of the stories, wouldn't that shine the light on the evil of banning books?) and obviously there are none of us in the world mature enough to read about sex and bad words without their omnipotent guidance on the subject, or rather, them locking away the material at all, becuase we're too impressionable to understand it like they do.

honestly, i feel like there is no stronger ignorance nor delusions of grandeur than to feel that you are qualified to say who can and cannot have access to certain information.

 

[JarethDrakul]

We're reading scarlet letter this year for our honors too. I saw that other list that has Winnie the Pooh on it and I was wondering why it was banned. I remember Charlotte's web being banned because of talking animals.

I'm going to guess thats the same reason Winnie the Pooh was banned due to talking animals. Most of the books I've read seem to be banned (for little things to )

 

[WDWtraveler27]

My english Homework:
-Find a banned book
-write one paragraph explaining where and why it was banned.
-Write one paragraph explaining if you agree or disagree with your findings.

can anyone help??????

 

[BabyPiglet]

1. 1984 by George Orwell

2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) by Mark Twain

3. Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

4. Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

5. Andersonville (1955) by MacKinlay Kantor

6. Animal Farm by George Orwell

7. 1001 Arabian Nights by Geraldine McCaughrean

8. As I Lay Dying (1932) by William Faulkner

9. The ******* by John Jakes

10. Beloved by Toni Morrison

11. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

12. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya

13. Blubber by Judy Blume

14. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

15. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (reading this soon)

16. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

17. Call of the Wild by Jack London

18. Can Such Things Be? by Ambrose Bierce

19. Candide by Voltaire

20. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

21. Carrie by Stephen King

22. Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

23. Catcher in the Rye (1951) by J. D. Salinger

24. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

25. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

26. Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

27. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

28. Color Purple by Alice Walker

29. Confessions by JeanbyJacques Rousseau

30. Christine by Stephen King

31. Cujo by Stephen King

32. Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen

33. Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite

34. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

35. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

36. Death in Venice by Thomas Mann

37. Decameron by Boccaccio

38. Dubliners by James Joyce

39. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

40. Fallen Angels by Walter Myers

41. Fanny Hill by John Cleland

42. Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

43. Forever by Judy Blume

44. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

45. The Goats by Brock Cole

46. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

47. Grapes of Wrath (1939) by John Steinbeck

48. Grendel by John Champlin Gardner

49. Hamlet by William Shakespeare

50. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

51. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

52. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

53. Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

54. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

55. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

56. House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

57. Howl by Allen Ginsberg

58. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

59. I Have to Go by Robert Munsch

60. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

61. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

62. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

63. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

64. King Lear by William Shakespeare

65. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence

66. The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

67. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

68. Lolita (1955) by Vladimir Nabokov

69. Lord of the Flies by William Golding

70. Lysistrata by Aristophanes

71. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

72. Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

73. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe

74. Monk by Matthew Lewis

75. Native Son by Richard Wright (partly)

76. ****** of the Narcissus by Joseph Conrad

77. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

78. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

79. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

80. Ordinary People by Judith Guest

81. Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin

82. Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective

83. Portnoy's Complaint (1969) by Philip Roth

84. Private Parts by Howard Stern

85. Rights of Man by Thomas Paine

86. Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

87. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

88. Separate Peace by John Knowles

89. Silas Marner by George Eliot

90. SlaughterhousebyFive by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

91. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

92. Sons & Lovers by D.H. Lawrence (read it for psychology)

93. The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman

94. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

95. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

96. Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller

97. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

98. Ulysses by James Joyce

99. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

100. Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

I've read a lot recently, and most of it (unknowingly) has been from this list, lol.

 

[Skelington Spade]

I just checked out Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz for the banned book weak and lurved it. The stories were interesting and the illustration was so unique and strange, I loved them.

 

[I Am What I Am]

i really do feel like those who banned it couldn't accept it at any of a higher meaning level, you know? i mean its obvious that those who ban books are desperately narrow minded, and i feel that they genuinely do not understand the points of the stories (which is illustrated through the obviously ignorant banning of F451 and the giver. i mean, if they understood the point of the stories, wouldn't that shine the light on the evil of banning books?) and obviously there are none of us in the world mature enough to read about sex and bad words without their omnipotent guidance on the subject, or rather, them locking away the material at all, becuase we're too impressionable to understand it like they do.

honestly, i feel like there is no stronger ignorance nor delusions of grandeur than to feel that you are qualified to say who can and cannot have access to certain information.

It's like the Harry Potter books. All anyone had to hear was "wizards" and BOOM it was an EVIL book. Forget the fact that it's about love, friendships, the consequences of our choices, death, adventure and how good will always triumph over evil. Nope, it just promotes witchcraft.

 

[Fatphil32]

lol at banned books. I'm about to start reading "I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell" sometime this week. If there's any book that should be banned, I'd imagine it would be at the top of the list. Best part is, a teacher recommended it to me because they felt it would "entertain my sense of humor."

 

[MusicalDisneyDreams]

I've read the Harry Potter books.
LOVE The Giver, but I kinda get why it's banned.
Currently reading Bless me, Ultima.
I love Black Beauty.
Why in the world was Winnie-the-Pooh banned??
I, personally hate Farenheit 451...
I love To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies.

I'm sure I've read more on the list byt I'm just too lazy to try and remember.