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Anybody interested in seeing the "banned" book list?

I thought I'd post this as a public service as it appears from reading previous posts that not everyone has this list. DOWN with censorship!! 1. "Harry Potter" (Series) (J.K. Rowling) 2. "To Kill a Mockingbird" (Harper Lee) 3. "The Color Purple" (Alice Walker) 4. "The Outsiders" (S.E. Hinton) 5. "Lord of the Flies" (William Golding) 6. "Of Mice and Men" (John Steinbeck) 7. "Goosebumps" (Series) (R.L. Stine) 8. "How to Eat Fried Worms" (Thomas Rockwell) 9. "The Catcher in the Rye" (J.D. Salinger) 10. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (Mark Twain) 11. "The Giver" (Lois Lowry) 12. "Brave New World" (Aldous Huxley) 13. "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (Mark Twain) 14. "Captain Underpants" (Dav Pilkey) 15. "The Anarchist Cookbook" (William Powell) 16. "Carrie" (Stephen King) 17. "Flowers for Algernon" (Daniel Keyes) 18. "The Dead Zone" (Stephen King) 19. "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (Maya Angelou) 20. "Go Ask Alice" (anonymous) 21. "American Psycho" (Bret Easton Ellis) 22. "The Chocolate War" (Robert Cormier) 23. "James and the Giant Peach" (Roald Dahl) 24. "The Pigman" (Paul Zindel) 25. "A Wrinkle in Time" (Madeleine L'Engle) Banned from the American Library Association. It's been going around all over the boards today. Check for yourself. I was emailed this list from a pretty respectable source. Jewish Girl: I know, me too. I don't know WHAT the problem is... Apparently this happened this week sometime. Kjelstad: Thanks for the link--I didn't know about that. By the way...if anyone wants to know what the world would be like with our books banned, please read Farenheit 451, Ray Bradbury. I'm surprised THAT book didn't make the list...

Public Comments

1. Banned according to who???
2. I can't believe some of those are banned... how to eat fried worms is listed? who makes this list up? crazy.
3. Yes.
4. how are they banned? they made me read half those books in school.
5. That is so fucked up! I'm glad I own at least half of those books. I'm with you, sister! Down with Censorship!
6. wtf? when was this? psh that's dumb. I'm paying no attention to that list, because the whole idea of banning books is so Hitler
7. I've read the vast majority of these books,with Flowers For Algernon being one of my favorites. Thank you for posting this.
8. Interesting!
9. these are the most contested books. Contested mostly by Christians. Harry Poter is a witch you know
10. The American Library Association has posted a Top 25 list of the most challenged and most banned books in the country. You can find the full list on buzz.yahoo.com.
11. I recall being forced to read half of these books as a child. What is with the state of the world these days?? Lord of the Flies should still be read by every child in this country. Im willing to bet the Bible was placed at the top of the Must read lists, right?
12. What the hell?!! Why don't they ban reality TV, or those idiotic NBC shows...
13. WTF!? That's just insane. I have to admit I agree with them on some of those, though. Goosebumps is godawful, for one. Captain Underpants as well. Apart from those it sounds more like a "must read" list.
14. Wow. "How to Eat Fried Worms" ?!? This list is ridiculous. DOWN with censorship!! is right.
15. I'm a Christian, I've read some of these books, and censorship is wrong!!!
16. I am proud to say I've read every single one of those books, including Fahrenheit 451.
17. I have read about 75% of the books on that list and when I went to a Catholic Grade school!! People who want to ban books are Nazis
18. thank you ana! i love how the list continually grows. . . more books to add to the reading list. and they are censored for the looniest reasons. knowledge and avenues to critical thought are 'dangerous' roads indeed. . . and greatly feared by those who censor.