September 3, 200818 yr Clyde's Grisham thread got me to thinking.... I didn't want to hijack his thread, so I started this one. How many books that have been banned in the US have you read? How many influenced you in the way that they were banned for? I looked up a list (not at all comprehensive), and these are my results from this list. I bolded the one's I've read: 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 (Also was banned by the Catholic Church) 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 (The title is a WFV) 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 I was completely and utterly shocked at some of the titles on this list! For instance, why in the WORLD would a dictionary be banned? I couldn't believe that Harry Potter books had been banned. This is the 21st century! Some of the greatest literature of all time is on this list! Banning literature seems to be an arbitrary, subjective endeavor. How can we rationalize this against our Constitutional rights? Why are we still banning books in the US in the 21st Century? Who is banning these books? And, for the record, the book by John Jakes that I couldn't post the title of got me HOOKED on John Jakes.
September 3, 200818 yr Author How can Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn be on the banned list? I should have qualified: All of these books either have been, or currently banned somewhere in the US.
September 3, 200818 yr Author What website did this list come from? Sorry...forgot to put that in the post as well: Banned Books
September 3, 200818 yr Who are these banned by? I have read several of them. Bought several of them at various locations in the U.S. and wasn't aware they were banned. Surely some of these were banned at one time but aren't anymore, IDK.
September 3, 200818 yr I should have qualified: All of these books either have been, or currently banned somewhere in the US. Gotcha.
September 3, 200818 yr Author I'm looking at other sites, and finding even more that aren't listed above. Again, many that I've read. Here's something I find funny....on almost every site I've found, A Clockwork Orange appears. I've read the book. But, the funniest thing is, my .....Catholic.....high school AP Psychology teacher showed the film in class. :lol: OK...maybe I'm the only one who would see the humor there....but still....
September 3, 200818 yr I'm looking at other sites, and finding even more that aren't listed above. Again, many that I've read. Here's something I find funny....on almost every site I've found, A Clockwork Orange appears. I've read the book. But, the funniest thing is, my .....Catholic.....high school AP Psychology teacher showed the film in class. :lol: OK...maybe I'm the only one who would see the humor there....but still.... If anything Clockwork Orange is a study in psychology. :lol: What, if any, books are currently banned in the US?
September 3, 200818 yr I don't know anyplace that bans most of these. I read 75% of these in my public schooling. Banning The Canterbury Tales should be a criminal offense. The only text I know of that is banned in most schools is The Anarchist's Cookbook, which I am a proud owner of.
September 3, 200818 yr If anything Clockwork Orange is a study in psychology. :lol: What, if any, books are currently banned in the US? I didn't go to a Catholic school, but we were shown A Clockwork Orange in my AP Psychology class as well. Must be a typical thing to do. After watching then buying the movie. I bought the book. A very good and very weird read.
September 3, 200818 yr I know of some schools, usually private, religious schools, that have banned the Harry Potter books.
September 3, 200818 yr Author I don't know anyplace that bans most of these. I read 75% of these in my public schooling. Banning The Canterbury Tales should be a criminal offense. The only text I know of that is banned in most schools is The Anarchist's Cookbook, which I am a proud owner of. The Harry Potter books aren't that old. To hit that list they had to have been banned recently (within the last 8-10 years, I think???).
September 3, 200818 yr Author And how and why in the name of all things sacred are Judy Blume books banned? Well....:lol:.... I read those books without my mother knowing. They were on the Catholic banned reading list, but they got passed around between my friends. I guess since they deal with "girl issues"....?
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