Yeppers. It is banned book week! And to honor this wonderful week celebrating free thinking and the glorious opportunity we have in this country to select what we read (or don't), here is a list of the top 25 banned books:
1. Harry Potter (series) by J. K. Rowling
2. Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
4. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
5. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
6. Scary Stories by Alvin Schwartz
7. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
8. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
9. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
10. Captain Underpants by Dave Pilkey
11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
12. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
13. Forever by Judy Blume
14. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
15. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
16. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
17. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
18. King and King by Linda de Haan
19. Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
20. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
21. The Giver by Lois Lowry
22. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
23. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
24. Beloved by Toni Morrison
25. The Face on the Milk by Carton Caroline Cooney
How many of these have you read?
Tomorrow I will share the Banned Book Event we held on campus today. Tonight, however, I am pooped. Dragging around my ball and chain have worn me out!
Happy reading!
Geez, I have read 9 on the list. The new blog looks great!
ReplyDeleteI have read 3, some of them a Loooong time ago.. I have seen the movie to 3 of them..
ReplyDeleteI have long had friends not understand why I am against banning books. (I'm not talking about not displaying inappropriate books where young kids can see them but actually banning.)
ReplyDeleteIt opens a Pandora's Box of banning ALL kinds of books... including what we would consider appropriate and others would not.
When I volunteered for years at our county library, most of the people there were very anti-Christian. Guess what THEY would ban?
Although I always found it amusing that the "Christian fiction" books were the best sellers at library sales and they could not figure that out, hehehe.