Clone of 50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read

Submitted by marslike on Sun, 08/30/2009 - 23:05
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  1. Protect the Children
  2. These books have all been at the heart of controversy over their appropriateness for children and youth to read.

  4. Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger
  5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  6. Forever by Judy Blume
  7. The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
  8. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
  9. The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
  10. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
  11. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
  12. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
  13. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle.
  14. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
  15. The Giver by Lois Lowery

  17. Religion and Politics
  18. Banned by governments, taken off shelves at libraries, and removed from schools, these books have been contested because of the way they portray religion or politics.

  20. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  21. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
  22. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  23. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriett Beecher Stowe
  24. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
  25. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
  26. 1984 by George Orwell
  27. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  28. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
  29. Candide by Voltaire

  31. Sex
  32. Perhaps the most popular reason a book is banned or challenged, the following books all portray sexuality in a way that has made some uncomfortable.

  34. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by DH Lawrence
  35. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
  36. Fanny Hill by John Cleland
  37. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  38. The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
  39. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  40. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  41. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  42. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
  43. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
  44. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
  45. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  46. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

  48. Race and Gender Issues
  49. Racism or the treatment of women are the driving forces behind having these books removed from the public eye.

  51. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
  53. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  54. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  55. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
  56. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

  58. Multiple Reasons
  59. Sometimes a book is so controversial or so powerfully written that it hits people on several different levels. These books have been banned for many different reasons, usually including profanity, violence, and sexuality.

  61. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  62. Native Son by Richard Wright
  63. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  64. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
  65. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kessey
  66. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  67. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  68. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
  69. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Author Comments: 

_Taken from this website: http://onlinecollegedegree.org/2009/05/20/50-banned-books-that-everyone-...
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_My goal is to read (or re-read) all of these.
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50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read