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[elizalavelle]

Yes, another book meme, willow_kat posted a meme of banned books since apparently it's Banned Book Week (according to the ALA (Sept. 29-Oct.6))

These are the 100 Most Banned Books from 1990-2000. As above, bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn’t finish,underline what you want to read, and strike through what you couldn’t stand.



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
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
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
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker (well I'm about half way through this one right now)
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
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
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
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
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
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
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
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
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
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

Comments

[gonnashine.livejournal.com]

Where's Waldo is a banned book?? why?? thats weird!

The Great Gilly Hopkins is a book our teacher read to the class in grade 6 and I loved it! Hmmm... again, I don't see what was wrong with it!

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

People ban the weirdest books. I have no idea why one would ban Where's Waldo but I'd guess that someone took offence to some of the illustrations... people ban EVERYTHING.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

It's always stupid to ban a book, but some of these choices are ridiculous.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I'm going to hazard the guess that a lot of these selections are banned in the Bible Belt... Harry Potter I remember reading was banned there, witchcraft you know ;)

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I saw a letter to the editor in TV Guide the other day, in which a mother said she can't find anything on the Disney Channel for her kids to watch because of all the Disney shows involving witchcraft. This is a new thing? Disney's been doing witches since Snow White!

I read and reread the Oz books, over and over again all thorugh my childhood, and I still haven't joined a coven; I think I'm doing okay.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

LMAO Whoever decided that letter got printed in TV Guide must have been laughing so hard.

I used to read everything about witches I could get my hands on, I've turned out okay. No worshipping Satan ;)

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I'm just glad they didn't all turn out like Margaret Hamilton's version in the Wizard of Oz movie, which is the first witch I ever remember seeing. She scared the crap out of me.

[avathebrat.livejournal.com]

How in the world could anyone ban The Giver? It's still one of the most beautiful books I've ever read.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I really can rarely see the sense behind a book being banned. Sometimes I can see the argument even if I don't agree with it but in most cases I just don't get it. Why keep such great books away from people?

[avathebrat.livejournal.com]

Exactly. If you don't think something is appropriate for your own child, then don't let your child read it. Don't try to get it banned so no one else can read it either.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

I once met a girl who was afraid of the Harry Potter books. We were selling the 4th one when I worked in a hotel gift shop here and this girl, her mom and I'm guessing a friend of the family came in. They sounded like they were from the Southern US somewhere.

Anyways the friend of the family saw we had HP4 on the shelf and went to give it to the little girl and this girl literally backed away from the book saying "mama says I shouldn't read those." It was a cross between funny because it was so stereotypical and sad because this poor kid was being made to miss out on something great because her mom had some problem with the books.