Banned!

[alianora]

Top 100 Most Banned/Challenged Book List Meme, stolen from a couple of people i dont know. bolded, i have read, not that im always proud of that...

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume (i literally got so annoyed at this book that i threw it across the room)
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry (duude. disutopia. gimme!)
15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck (cant remember it at all, but i know i read it)
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (*swoon* love this series)
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (stolen from Natalie's room and read at some point)
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak (least, i think i read it)
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (No, Johnny! dont die!)
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein (why on earth would this be banned?)
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) (in an effort to not squick my sisters, i wont say where i found these)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding (PIGGY!)
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume (*blink* this is controversial?)
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford (*laughs hysterically*)
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene (oh no, it makes Nazi's seem like people! the horror!)
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett (well, i tried to read it anyway.)
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

ive only read 40 of the banned books? i need to go to the library.

Comments

[girlflesh.livejournal.com]

But...why was Where's Waldo, of all fucking things, banned? They didn't like funny little men in red stripes?

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

supposedly, in one of the books, there is a topless sunbather. how anyone noticed, or if she is really there, is beyong me.

[girlflesh.livejournal.com]

Okay, I have a hard enough time trying to find Waldo, much less a topless sunbather.

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

some people have too much time and really dirty imaginations.

like the people who find the weird sex message in the Lion King and accuse the minister in Little Mermaid of having an erection.

people are so dirty minded. and then they throw a fit!

[girlflesh.livejournal.com]

In defense of the Little Mermaid priest dude people...his "knee" is really disturbing. *cough*

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

ok, ill give you that one..but i couldnt think of another example. :)

[sirkpega.livejournal.com]

*blink* Where's Waldo was banned?

I think I read a different Where's Waldo than they banned, 'cause if not, that's just ... silly. lol!!

I've only read a few that you haven't and you've read way more than me ... now I need to get to the library, too! Some of them just sound ... interesting.

Are these in order of the "banned"ness? Or random?

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

random, as far as i know.

and where's waldo..possible topless sunbather somewhere. dunno if its true..but there ya go.

[sirkpega.livejournal.com]

there is a topless sunbather!! i had forgotten about that. she's on the beach and some kid had just put ice cream on her back and up she popped.

yes, as odd as it is, i remember this. it came out when i was a kid ... and it was a naked person. i was facinated by it. gimme a break! lol!

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

you mean its *true?!!*

hee!!

[sirkpega.livejournal.com]

yep. it's trure. if we go to the bookstore when you come down this weekend, i'll look for it and show you. lol!

[gonepostal.livejournal.com]

you know what, i think i remember that too...cuz i have ALL the where's waldo books unless they made new ones recently...

[indigodragyn.livejournal.com]

Stephen King's books are pretty fun if you like horror. And Jean M. Auel's books get dirty~

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

see, thats why none of those are bolded. i have read several Stephen King, but he just doesnt interest me.


and ive never even heard of Jean M . Auel before.

[indigodragyn.livejournal.com]

They're really thick. >.o The first in the series is Clan of the Cave Bear and the fifth came out about a year ago - Shelters of Stone.

[aliaspiral.livejournal.com]

oh, those. i have read Clan of the Cave Bear, but i got really bored. should i try it again? i was probably about 12 at the time...

[indigodragyn.livejournal.com]

You might try them again if you have some free time. I guess you have to be interested in that general time period, and there are pages that I would just flip past because all she did was describe the local vegetation. Seriously. But character wise, they are pretty good.