so i am totally stealing this idea from carol about which of the 100 most frequently challenged books i’ve read. after all, it is banned books week.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Forever by Judy Blume
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
Blubber by Judy Blume
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Deenie by Judy Blume
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
wow.
I can’t believe how many of those books i have read! My favorites have to be a tie between “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “To kill a Mockingbird.” i cried while reading both of those books. By the way, here in Florida, the weather is about 80-85 degrees. Just had to throw that in. 😉
OMG – Judy Blume is like the queen or something! That is so bizarre…
little black sambo?? what’s up with that!
Didn’t Anastasia Krumpnik rock? I want to reread that series all over again.
alright.. I guess I don’t feel too stupid.. I’ve read 14 of them.. granted, most of them were the kids books.. 😛 oh well.. I do enough reading even if they aren’t on “the list”.. 🙂
He who challenges or puts up efforts to ban William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is an enemy of democracy. Ideas do not change people’s minds but they enlighten them.
I went through this list and had read 75% of them!! I feel like such a rebel!
Deb
Does anyone have any information or websites I could go to, to find out about why “The Bluest Eye” by Toni Morrison was banned? I’m doing an english essay and it’s due by the 31st of july!!! 🙁
anyone who thinks books should be banned is crazy. Books are a way for people to express themselves. If you don’t like a book deal with it.
so sad that our freedom to READ is slowly drawn…
They are hiding the truths of life from us!!!!! Some of the stuff in books is also taking the imagination of others away!!!! STOP BOOK BANNING IT’S LITERATURE GET WITH IT PEOPLE YOU MAKE ME MAD!!!!
This is all so ridiculous! All of these books are wonderful I’ve read about half of them and right now I’m reading the catcher in the rye and its outstanding!
Although these books might be telling the truth, little children do NOT need to be reading these. I know that you might not want to hide anything that happens in this world but… some things need to be censored. There’s a certain age to learn about things in life and little children don’t need to learn about it any sooner than they have to.
i think that children should be taught the truth from the begining. for the simple fact that when they are in these situations they learn how to handle it the right way, instead of the way that thing have been handled. for instance the columbin sittuation. i think that if from the begining if we teach our kids the reality of life & not fiction we just might be able to prevent things like that from happening in the future. there will always be someone who thinks with their eyes closed, but if we could start with our kids maybe just maybe we could change life little by little.
banning books is purely murder. one by one, our freedoms are being taken away. though, did we ever havethem in the first place? what ever happened to free speech? humans happened. oppression is one of our greatest drives in life. without it we are not human. so banning an idea that might be dificult to explain is the most logical step. if the issue is not there in the first place, it saves embarrassment. who is right?
you’d think that these books are killing people, the way some people are going on. they are not trying to change our religions, our ways of life, but trying to open our eyes to something we may not have known. they teach literally, what is good and bad, because they give so many examples of such. if we don’t know from our own experiences or somebady else’s, what are we going to learn from?
why was tne book Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret banned