The Banned Book List - Go Buy These Books

[MaryH]

1. Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

2. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowlings

3. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

4. Arming America: The origins of a National Gun Culture by michael A. Bellesiles

5. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers

6. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

7. Its Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris

8. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier

9. King and King by Linda deHaan

10 The Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. What no Judy Blume?

She usually makes these lists.

And I will never understand the problem with Bridge to Terabithia. Makes no sense.

[MaryH]

2. I don't think any book should be banned!

I read absolutely everything when I was growing up. If I found out a book was banned I found it somewhere. I still do that.

[Tacos al Carbon]

17. Personally, I liked Beverly Cleary

eom.

[proud2BlibKansan]

23. I don't think she's on the banned list

but give the idiots time and she will be.

[BurtWorm]

3. Why is Bridge to Tarabithia banned?

I don't get that one at all. Because there's a death in it? Because a boy and girl are friends?

[The Doctor.]

6. I loved that one...

I read it when I was eight.

First time I cried from reading a book.

I grew because of that story.

These assholes!
Who do they think they are?

[gollygee]

36. That's the one that stuck out to me too

I loved that book when I was a kid.

So many of my old favorites are listed. It would be sad if these books weren't available to my daughter when she is school age.

[The Doctor.]

4. What list is this???

Who 'Banned' these wonderful books?

ABSOLUTE 'MORANS'!!

http://www.abebooks.com/docs/Community/Featured/bannedBooks.shtml


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[PA Democrat]

5. I recall hearing about books that people wanted banned

back when I was young, and those are the very books I sought out and read.

[One_Life_To_Give]

7. Arming America yes,

the rest I don't see why.

[The Doctor.]

12. Methinks you know not what that book be about....

http://www.abebooks.com/docs/Community/Featured/bannedBooks.shtml

[One_Life_To_Give]

14. Research or Lack of Controversy

The author of this book didn't resign from Emory University due to the praise of his research methods. We shouldn't be asking kids to read this without giving them the complete story, from both sides, of that as well.

[The Doctor.]

16. I agree there must always be perspective...

Though I admit never having read it, banning is banning.

My kids will not see porn because I am what some refer to as a "parent".

I know, it's radical, but it precludes the necessity for banning anything when exercised properly.

[DoNotRefill]

26. Ummmm...an independent panel....

of highly respected academics found that Bellesiles fraudulently falsified data in that book.

It's propaganda, nothing more.

[The Doctor.]

31. Then my children will not read it, and I will refute any

who cite it as a source.

I still see no reason to ban it.

If we should ban any book, it should be the one that tells you to have the town line up and rape your daughter if she has sex before marriage, tells you to murder every man woman and child who is your enemy, has you stone a woman to death for attempting to teach...

Can you guess which piece of literature that is?

[One_Life_To_Give]

34. Not a Ban as in Burning but

These "Bans" are for putting books on the
a) Reading List for School students
b) Placement in a school or childrens section of the public library

I would object to placing the book in B without a caution of some sort. And if in a it should be part of a lesson that goesd beyond just reading the book and thinking it were based on solid research.

In any case no book should be completely banned. But there are places where we control access. Just as you object to your children accessing porn.

[CornField]

8. 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books (ALA)

From the American Library Association: http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challengedbanned/challengedbanned.htm

Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Dieby Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
The Goats by Brock Cole
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Jack by A.M. Homes
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

[SmokingJacket]

20. Where's Waldo????

Is it because Waldo looks French?

How to Eat Fried Worms? (Children should NOT be told they can eat worms!!!)

Sheesh.

Parent your own children; leave mine alone.

[Ilsa]

28. James & the Giant Peach? To Kill a Mockingbird?

[Hardrada]

30. Banned Book Memoirs

I had at one time a walk-in used book store and I was always delighted when some book was banned because then people would come in and buy any copies of the banned title that I had. Usually something by Judy Blume in fact. I also had quite a lot of books that weren't ever going to go out the door so I had the idea of seeing if I could somehow get them banned also to get rid of them. Unfortunately I didn't know who to contact. Books were never successfully banned here in my town but the local theater owner anticipated he might lose a few bucks so he never showed The Life of Brian or The Last Temptation of Christ though I tried to talk him into doing so. Also Amistad never got here though there was an advertising poster on the theater wall. That may have been due to some reason other than censorship.

[Nadienne]

33. We read To Kill a Mockingbird in high school.

Didn't seem all that controversial to me. :shrug:

In a college lit class (I spent a semester as an English education major; quite fun, really) I gave a presentation of The Chocolate War. It's a really good book. I recommended it to my little sister, who is in high school now. The teacher was asking for book suggestions for class; I told her to suggest The Chocolate War. I don't think the teacher took her up on my suggestion. I'm sure I would have heard about it. :)

[Pepperbelly]

9. the stepping catdaddy of all ... Johnny Got His Gun. nt

[jonnyblitz]

10. thanks for reminding me about that book.

I have been meaning to search for it at my library and it slipped my mind. :thumbsup:

[masaka___]

11. Anything by WILHELM REICH

Here's a brief summary of what he was about:

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/mad-science/wilhelm-reich/

He was a German who had his books banned by the Nazis back in WW2.

What's even sadder was that even after he escaped from Germany and eventually found himself in the USA, the FDA raided his laboratory and burned his books.

Can you imagine that shit?

A book burning.

In the United States.

[The Doctor.]

15. "Those who begin by burning books will end up by burning people."

- Heinrich Heine

God forbid our children might develop imagination in this dark world.

[Jack_DeLeon]

13. banned by who?

[masaka___]

18. This is one of the rare times where it doesn't matter who it was.

Just the fact that someone considers banning books to be a viable option lets you know that that person may not be a friend of the truth.

[toddaa]

19. (yawn) The usual worn out "banned books" list

All of these books are rather dull and uninteresting from a censorship standpoint. Here's a short list of books that even some DU'ers would find objectionable. Let's see how "freedom of speech" you are.


1. Jim Goad - Issue #4 Answer ME! mag (the Rape issue)
2. Peter Sotos - Total Abuse
3. Adam Parfrey - Apocalypse Culture I && II
4. Pat Califia - Macho Sluts
5. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion

The above are of course all over the top, but if any of these popped up on the shelves of your schools library shelves, what would you do?

You can find all sorts of nifty objectionable stuff at www.loompanics.com. Much better than Amazon.

[American Tragedy]

39. I remain on the side of freedom over authoritarianism consistently.

Needless to say, I very strongly doubt that examples like those are appropriate for a grade school library. But I don't think I would protest if such books were in a designated section of a university library.

It would have been quite difficult for me to complete my thesis on the psychology of fascism without having access to propaganda literature and of course Mein Kampf. I have always believed that we should confront these things directly and explicitly.

However, I would demand that all editions are either abridged or contain a preface that contextualizes the documents. For instance, mentioning that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is a hoax.

[nostamj]

21. is THAT all you've got? yawn...

how about the fundie repuke that's meeting with the chimp and wants to remove ALL DEPICTIONS OF HOMOSEXUALS from public libraries/schools?

along with all books BY homosexuals?

[Steve2525]

22. Who banned them?

on edit I see that these are books that have been challenged most frequently.

Harry Potter was "banned" by a local school board, but it was taken to court by a student and basically laughed out of court as the reasons were so silly. Difficult to believe that school board members could have so little education and so full of disinformation and misinformation. (only one had read it, and the rest were going on what he said. He was a pastor at a fundie church)

[mediaman007]

24. Everyone here should read "Fallen Angels"

Its a books about a kid from New York City who has to spend a year in Viet Nam. It is one of the most chilling stories of war that you will read. That's probably why Freepers want it banned. When kids are done reading that book, they aren't so quick to see the military with such rosy glasses.

In addition, you will be treated to one of the best endings ever. The ending will just blind-side you.

Try it out.

[DoNotRefill]

27. there's also a book by that name....

about the Greens taking over the planet. It's humorous sci-fi, and if you've ever been to a sci-fi con, you should read it.

[toddaa]

25. Would you ban this man's writing?

http://www.fpcmagazine.org/sotos.html

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

29. how about "my pet goat"

i heard it makes people sit in frozen fear and leads them to inaction.

[Nadienne]

32. Why is the Harry Potter series banned? (n/t)

[onenote]

35. witches & wizards & magic = satan

Gotta ban Hallowe'en too.

onenote

[CornField]

37. It's magical

There are lots of more specific reasons if you google it, but "magic/witchcraft" is the basis of most arguments. Many Christians feel that the books portray paganism in a positive light and offer pagan religious teachings.

[Midlodemocrat]

38. Whose banned book list is this?

I mean, who compiled it?