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In Case you were unaware Sept 25-Oct 2 is Banned Book Week. For People who want to rebel here is a list of books that have been banned from American schools and Libraries.
Too Political
1) Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
2) All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque, 1928
3) A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway, 1929
4) The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck, 1939
5) For Whom the Bell Tolls By Ernest Hemingway, 1940
6) Animal Farm By George Orwell, 1945
7) 1984 By George Orwell, 1949
8) Doctor Zhivago By Boris Pasternak, 1957
9) Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1969
10) In the Spirit of Crazy Horse By Peter Matthiessen, 1983
Too Much Sex
1) Madame Bovary By Gustave Fluabert, 1856
2) Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy 1891
3) Ulysses By James Joyce, 1922
4) The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway, 1926
5) Lady Chatteriey's Lover By D.H. Lawrence,1928
6) Tropic of Cancer By Henry Miller, 1934
7) Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
8) Peyton Palace By Grace Metalious, 1956
9) Rabbit, Run By John Updike, 1969
10) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou, 1969
11) Jaws By Peter Benchley, 1974
12) Forever By Judy Blume, 1975
13) The Prince of Tides By Pat Conroy, 1986
14) Beloved By Toni Morrison, 1987
15) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez, 1991
Irreligious (defined as1.not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions. 2.showing or characterized by a lack of religion. 3.showing indifference or hostility to religion: irreligious statements.)
1) On the Origin of Species By Charles Darwin, 1859
2) The Lord of the Rings trilogy By J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
3) The Last Temptation of Christ By Nikos Kazantzakis, 1960
4) Bless me, Ultima By Rudolfo Anaya, 1972
5) Harry Potter series By J.K Rowling, 1997-2007
6) His Dark Material trilogy By Philip Pullman 1995-2000
7) A Wrinkle in Time By Madeleine L'Engle, 1962
Socially Offensive
1) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin By Benjamin Franklin, 1791
2) The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
3) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain, 1884
4) As I Lay Dying By William Falkner, 1930
5) A brave New World By Aldous Huxley, 1932
6) Gone With the Wind By Margaret Mitchell, 1936
7) Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck, 1937
8) Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank, 1947
9) The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger, 1951
10) Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury, 1953
11) To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee, 1969
12) James and the Giant Peach By Roald Dahl, 1961
13) Catch-22 By Joseph Heller, 1961
14) A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess, 1962
15) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey, `962
16) In Cold Blood By Truman Capote, 1966
17) Cujo By Stephen King, 1981
18) The Color Purple By Alice Walker, 1982
19) Ordinary People By Judith Guest, 1982
20) A Thousand Acres By Jane Smiley, 1991
A few other books that have been banned
1)A Light in the Attic By Shel Silverstein, 1981 (Attempts have been made to ban the book from some libraries, parents claiming that the poem "How Not To Have To Dry The Dishes" encourages messiness and disobedience. The poem "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" led to more criticism for describing the death of a girl after her parents refuse to buy her a pony. Other complaints included the mention of supernatural themes, including demons, devils and ghosts.)
2)The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein, 1964 (Some academic readers describe the book as portraying a vicious, one-sided relationship between the tree and the boy: with the tree as the selfless giver and the boy as a greedy and insatiable entity who constantly receives, yet never gives anything back to the tree; a selfish love that could be misrepresented and imitated by its young readers.)
3) Scary Stories to tell in the Dark trilogy By Alvin Schwartz, 1981, 1984 1nd 1991 (Maybe because the stories are scary? I can't find a reason)
4) Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare, 1600 (or 1601) (My guess Cross dressing and "homosexuality" [kinda])
5) Bridge to Terabithia By Katherine Paterson, 1977 (death being a part of the plot, Jess' frequent use of the word "lord" outside of prayer, concerns that the book promotes secular humanism New Age religion, occultism, and Satanism, and for use of offensive language)
The fastest way to make a book popular is to try and ban it. People like me will want to read it just to see what all the fuss is about.
Too Political
1) Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
2) All Quiet on the Western Front By Erich Maria Remarque, 1928
3) A Farewell to Arms By Ernest Hemingway, 1929
4) The Grapes of Wrath By John Steinbeck, 1939
5) For Whom the Bell Tolls By Ernest Hemingway, 1940
6) Animal Farm By George Orwell, 1945
7) 1984 By George Orwell, 1949
8) Doctor Zhivago By Boris Pasternak, 1957
9) Slaughterhouse-Five By Kurt Vonnegut Jr., 1969
10) In the Spirit of Crazy Horse By Peter Matthiessen, 1983
Too Much Sex
1) Madame Bovary By Gustave Fluabert, 1856
2) Tess of the d'Urbervilles By Thomas Hardy 1891
3) Ulysses By James Joyce, 1922
4) The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway, 1926
5) Lady Chatteriey's Lover By D.H. Lawrence,1928
6) Tropic of Cancer By Henry Miller, 1934
7) Lolita By Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
8) Peyton Palace By Grace Metalious, 1956
9) Rabbit, Run By John Updike, 1969
10) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings By Maya Angelou, 1969
11) Jaws By Peter Benchley, 1974
12) Forever By Judy Blume, 1975
13) The Prince of Tides By Pat Conroy, 1986
14) Beloved By Toni Morrison, 1987
15) How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents By Julia Alvarez, 1991
Irreligious (defined as1.not religious; not practicing a religion and feeling no religious impulses or emotions. 2.showing or characterized by a lack of religion. 3.showing indifference or hostility to religion: irreligious statements.)
1) On the Origin of Species By Charles Darwin, 1859
2) The Lord of the Rings trilogy By J.R.R. Tolkien, 1954
3) The Last Temptation of Christ By Nikos Kazantzakis, 1960
4) Bless me, Ultima By Rudolfo Anaya, 1972
5) Harry Potter series By J.K Rowling, 1997-2007
6) His Dark Material trilogy By Philip Pullman 1995-2000
7) A Wrinkle in Time By Madeleine L'Engle, 1962
Socially Offensive
1) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin By Benjamin Franklin, 1791
2) The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850
3) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain, 1884
4) As I Lay Dying By William Falkner, 1930
5) A brave New World By Aldous Huxley, 1932
6) Gone With the Wind By Margaret Mitchell, 1936
7) Of Mice and Men By John Steinbeck, 1937
8) Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank, 1947
9) The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger, 1951
10) Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury, 1953
11) To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee, 1969
12) James and the Giant Peach By Roald Dahl, 1961
13) Catch-22 By Joseph Heller, 1961
14) A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess, 1962
15) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest By Ken Kesey, `962
16) In Cold Blood By Truman Capote, 1966
17) Cujo By Stephen King, 1981
18) The Color Purple By Alice Walker, 1982
19) Ordinary People By Judith Guest, 1982
20) A Thousand Acres By Jane Smiley, 1991
A few other books that have been banned
1)A Light in the Attic By Shel Silverstein, 1981 (Attempts have been made to ban the book from some libraries, parents claiming that the poem "How Not To Have To Dry The Dishes" encourages messiness and disobedience. The poem "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" led to more criticism for describing the death of a girl after her parents refuse to buy her a pony. Other complaints included the mention of supernatural themes, including demons, devils and ghosts.)
2)The Giving Tree By Shel Silverstein, 1964 (Some academic readers describe the book as portraying a vicious, one-sided relationship between the tree and the boy: with the tree as the selfless giver and the boy as a greedy and insatiable entity who constantly receives, yet never gives anything back to the tree; a selfish love that could be misrepresented and imitated by its young readers.)
3) Scary Stories to tell in the Dark trilogy By Alvin Schwartz, 1981, 1984 1nd 1991 (Maybe because the stories are scary? I can't find a reason)
4) Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare, 1600 (or 1601) (My guess Cross dressing and "homosexuality" [kinda])
5) Bridge to Terabithia By Katherine Paterson, 1977 (death being a part of the plot, Jess' frequent use of the word "lord" outside of prayer, concerns that the book promotes secular humanism New Age religion, occultism, and Satanism, and for use of offensive language)
The fastest way to make a book popular is to try and ban it. People like me will want to read it just to see what all the fuss is about.