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Banned Books

The American Library Association keeps an accounting of objectionable reads. We curled up with a good computer to check which forbidden pages still beckon readers and searchers.

"Harry Potter" (Series) (J.K. Rowling)
"To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee)
"The Color Purple" (Alice Walker)
"The Outsiders" (S.E. Hinton)
"Lord of the Flies" (William Golding)
"Of Mice and Men" (John Steinbeck)
"Goosebumps" (Series) (R.L. Stine)
"How to Eat Fried Worms" (Thomas Rockwell)
"The Catcher in the Rye" (J.D. Salinger)
"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Mark Twain)
"The Giver" (Lois Lowry)
"Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley)
"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (Mark Twain)
"Captain Underpants" (Dav Pilkey)
"The Anarchist Cookbook" (William Powell)
"Carrie" (Stephen King)
"Flowers for Algernon" (Daniel Keyes)
"The Dead Zone" (Stephen King)
"I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Maya Angelou)
"Go Ask Alice" (anonymous)
"American Psycho" (Bret Easton Ellis)
"The Chocolate War" (Robert Cormier)
"James and the Giant Peach" (Roald Dahl)
"The Pigman" (Paul Zindel)
"A Wrinkle in Time" (Madeleine L'Engle)


While I don't know if this is a complete list of books that they call objectionable some of these when I was in school was concidered manditory to read. Now they are being questioned. What's your input on this. Here's a link to the page.

https://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/37480/a-long-shelf-life

Edited: Zelph on 28th Sep, 2006 - 6:25pm

Books Banned

"To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee)

"Lord of the Flies" (William Golding)

"Of Mice and Men" (John Steinbeck



"James and the Giant Peach" (Roald Dahl)

The top 3 novels are on the UK GCSE examinations for school leavers, and have been since I left school.

I don't know whether James and the giant peach is still on the school curriculum, but I remember when I was at school having to read it, as Zelph pointed out, there was no choice in the matter, they were a mandatory read.

It's amazing how times change!

Banned Books UFO & Writing Art Education Sciences

This is stupid! Books are self-expression.

What's next, books like The Big Fat Bush?
Or The Secret War of the Secret People?

The above titles are satirical but you get my drift.

I have a feeling that all this is because of narrow minded and paranoid people who have cringed after September 11 and now refuse anything that have "security issues". What's next all books from the counterculture 60's hippies will be banned because they are Un-American?

Books Banned

Yellowknife, I think you have missed the whole point.

Not all, or even many, were ever banned by the US government. They were banned by individual school districts, or by individual libraries.

One book that is extremely notorious that is not on the list is The Holy Bible. It has been banned many times, by many different organizations. The Book of Mormon, the Tao Ching, the Bhagavad Ghita, and almost any other specific religious work has been banned by some school district or other.

Books Banned

Wow, this is pretty startling. I remember some of those being required reading when I was in school too. What is the reason for a library banning most of these books?
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That means that somewhere, in some library, some librarian banned these books from her shelves, or a school board voted on it. I can't find a good reason that these books should or would be banned. Some of them are classic works of literature that were required for myself and even my father to read. But when reading this, we must remember that this was not done by the government or the Reading Association, it was done by individual librarians.

Banned Books

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