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Remember, folks, Sept. 25th thru Oct. 2nd is the American Library Association's Annual Banned Book Week. Here follows a (very partial) list of books banned from American schools and libraries (as noted in the latest issue of the ARRP Bulletin:
Too Political:
Uncle Toms Cabin;
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
All Quiet on the Western Front;
Erich Maria Remarque, 1928
A Farewell to Arms;
Ernest Hemingway, 1929
The Grapes of Wrath;
John Steinbeck, 1939
For Whom the Bell Tolls;
Ernest Hemingway, 1940
Animal Farm;
George Orwell, 1945
1984;
George Orwell, 1949
Dr. Zhivago;
Boris Pasternak, 1957
Slaughterhouse Five;
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1969
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse;
Peter Matthiessin, 1983
Too Much Sex
Madame Bovary;
Gustav Flaubert, 1856
Tess of the dUrbervilles;
Thomas hardy, 1891
Ulysses;
James Joyce, 1922
The Sun Also Rises;
Ernest Hemingway, 1926
Lady Chatterleys Lover;
D.H. Lawrence, 1928
Tropic of Cancer;
Henry Miller, 1934
Lolita;
Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Peyton Place;
Grace Metallious, 1956
Rabbit, Run;
John Updike, 1960
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings;
Maya Angelou, 1969
Jaws;
Peter Benchley, 1974
Forever;
Judy Blume, 1975
The Prince of Tides;
Pat Conroy, 1986
Beloved;
Toni Morrison, 1987
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents;
Julia Alvarez, 1991
Irreligious
On the Origin of Species;
Charles Darwin, 1859
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy;
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
The Last Temptation of Christ;
Nikos Kazantzakis, 1960
Bless Me, Ultima;
Rudolfo Anaya, 1972
Harry Potter series;
J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007
Socially Offensive
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin;
Benjamin Franklin, 1791
The Scarlet Letter;
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;
Mark Twain, 1884
As I Lay Dying;
William Faulkner, 1930
Brave New World;
Aldous Huxley, 1932
Gone With the Wind;
Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Of Mice and Men;
John Steinbeck, 1937
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl;
Anne Frank, 1947
The Catcher in the Rye;
J.D. Salinger, 1951
Fahrenheit 451;
Ray Bradbury, 1953
Too Kill a Mockingbird;
Harper Lee, 1960
James and the Giant Peach;
Roald Dahl, 1961
Catch-22;
Joseph Heller, 1961
A Clockwork Orange;
Anthony Burgess, 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest;
Ken Kesey, 1962
In Cold Blood;
Truman Capote, 1966
Cujo;
Stephen King, 1981
The Color Purple;
Alice Walker, 1982
Ordinary People;
Judith Guest, 1982
A Thousand Acres;
Jane Smiley, 1991
I, of course am a Politically, Morally, Religiously and Socially superior person as i have not read a one of them............
isher
Too Political:
Uncle Toms Cabin;
Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
All Quiet on the Western Front;
Erich Maria Remarque, 1928
A Farewell to Arms;
Ernest Hemingway, 1929
The Grapes of Wrath;
John Steinbeck, 1939
For Whom the Bell Tolls;
Ernest Hemingway, 1940
Animal Farm;
George Orwell, 1945
1984;
George Orwell, 1949
Dr. Zhivago;
Boris Pasternak, 1957
Slaughterhouse Five;
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1969
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse;
Peter Matthiessin, 1983
Too Much Sex
Madame Bovary;
Gustav Flaubert, 1856
Tess of the dUrbervilles;
Thomas hardy, 1891
Ulysses;
James Joyce, 1922
The Sun Also Rises;
Ernest Hemingway, 1926
Lady Chatterleys Lover;
D.H. Lawrence, 1928
Tropic of Cancer;
Henry Miller, 1934
Lolita;
Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Peyton Place;
Grace Metallious, 1956
Rabbit, Run;
John Updike, 1960
I know Why the Caged Bird Sings;
Maya Angelou, 1969
Jaws;
Peter Benchley, 1974
Forever;
Judy Blume, 1975
The Prince of Tides;
Pat Conroy, 1986
Beloved;
Toni Morrison, 1987
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents;
Julia Alvarez, 1991
Irreligious
On the Origin of Species;
Charles Darwin, 1859
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy;
J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
The Last Temptation of Christ;
Nikos Kazantzakis, 1960
Bless Me, Ultima;
Rudolfo Anaya, 1972
Harry Potter series;
J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007
Socially Offensive
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin;
Benjamin Franklin, 1791
The Scarlet Letter;
Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn;
Mark Twain, 1884
As I Lay Dying;
William Faulkner, 1930
Brave New World;
Aldous Huxley, 1932
Gone With the Wind;
Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Of Mice and Men;
John Steinbeck, 1937
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl;
Anne Frank, 1947
The Catcher in the Rye;
J.D. Salinger, 1951
Fahrenheit 451;
Ray Bradbury, 1953
Too Kill a Mockingbird;
Harper Lee, 1960
James and the Giant Peach;
Roald Dahl, 1961
Catch-22;
Joseph Heller, 1961
A Clockwork Orange;
Anthony Burgess, 1962
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest;
Ken Kesey, 1962
In Cold Blood;
Truman Capote, 1966
Cujo;
Stephen King, 1981
The Color Purple;
Alice Walker, 1982
Ordinary People;
Judith Guest, 1982
A Thousand Acres;
Jane Smiley, 1991
I, of course am a Politically, Morally, Religiously and Socially superior person as i have not read a one of them............
isher