Last year I celebrated banned books week by purchasing this bracelet:
How many of these banned books have you read?(I've highlighted the ones I've read--I count 43--in purple.)
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
Ulysses, by James Joyce
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
1984, by George Orwell
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm, by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
Native Son, by Richard Wright
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
The World According to Garp, by John Irving
All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
My Antonia, by Willa Cather
Howards End, by E.M. Forster
In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
Jazz, by Toni Morrison
Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor
Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
Light in August, by William Faulkner
The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
White Noise, by Don DeLillo
O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
The Bostonians, by Henry James
An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
Additional banned books:
Captain Underpants series, Dav Pilkey
Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary
Harry Potter series, JK Rowling
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See, Eric Carle
James & the Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
Grimm's Fairy Tales
I know this list is far from comprehensive--for example, it doesn't include Huckleberry Finn or Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I think I should read some more banned books--what do you think? Do you have any recommendations for me?
Okay, so I got to 43 also, but there were a couple where I wasn't sure if I had read the book or seen the movie. Jim wants to know where this list came from he was surprised at Wind in the Willows and The Jungle.
ReplyDeleteThe list comes from the American Library Association web site...I'm sure it's not complete.
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