Whee, memes-age!

Feb 27, 2005 13:02



Blah blah, partial list of banned books. Bold means I've read it. Italicized means read parts. Underline means not read, but want to.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce [I read two whole pages before I gave up!]
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee [at least three times]
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchel
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy Quite possibly the worst book ever penned.
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Probably the best book on this list, and among top 10 ever.
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison As distinct from "The Invisible Man"
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 The Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
#111 Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz if this is the series I think they're referencing
#112 Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
#113 Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
#114 Forever by Judy Blume
#115 Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
#116 My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
#117 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
#118 The Giver by Lois Lowry
#119 It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
#120 Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine read complete books, but not the whole series
#121 Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
#122 The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
#123 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
#124 Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
#125 Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
#126 In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
#127 The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
#128 The Witches by Roald Dahl
#129 The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
#130 We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
#131 Final Exit by Derek Humphry
#132 What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
#133 Beloved by Toni Morrison
#134 A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
#135 Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
#136 Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
#137 Cujo by Stephen King
#138 The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
#139 What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
#140 Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
#141 Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
#142 Fade by Robert Cormier
#143 Guess What? by Mem Fox
#144 The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
#145 The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
#146 Carrie by Stephen King
#147 Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
#148 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
#149 Private Parts by Howard Stern
#150 Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
#151 Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
#152 How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
#153 Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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