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Which books did Sarah Palin want to ban?

There's a list circulating the internet of the books Sarah Palin tried to ban, but I question it's authenticity. Can anyone provide an accurate list from a reputable source? Book banning is tantamount to high treason of the intellect, so we need to get our facts straight here if we want to maintain our integrity. I understand that no books were banned--that's not news to me. I am interested to know if she had any books in mind. I'm sure she did. That's what I'm looking for.

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1. NONE. This is just another liberal attack on Palin and there is not a shred of truth to it. If this were true it would have been all over the liberal news when it was supposed to have happened.
2. "Origins of Species"--by Charles Darwin. I am just kidding and I am waiting for the librarian to step up to these accusations, and I cannot help find some truth in this accusations. The religious right has shown themselves to be the censorship police time and time again.
3. Well, lets see. She's conservative, she's against teaching sex ed in school other then abstinence, she wants creationism taught in public school when there's no evidence for it. I bet it's another piece of fiction that supposedly blasphemes against the christian god like Harry Potter and Golden Compass again.
4. I think the best piece of fiction ever written and best sold around the globe! ....the Bible
5. From Time/CNN, pretty reliable sources. Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor. So to answer your question no books were banned, but the thought was there. Read the rest of the article though, it sheds some interesting light on the person wanting to be our next VP.
6. This is totally true and covered in an article in Time magazine. Totally true! Palin does NOT support the 1st Amendment! [Former Wasilla mayor] “Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.” Books Sarah Palin Tried to Ban •A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner Blubber by Judy Blume Brave New World by Aldous Huxley Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson Canterbury Tales by Chaucer Carrie by Stephen King Catch-22 by Joseph Heller Christine by Stephen King Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Cujo by Stephen King Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller Decameron by Boccaccio East of Eden by John Steinbeck Fallen Angels by Walter Myers Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes Forever by Judy Blume Grendel by John Champlin Gardner Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling Have to Go by Robert Munsch Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Impressions edited by Jack Booth In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Lord of the Flies by William Golding Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein Lysistrata by Aristophanes More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier My House by Nikki Giovanni My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara Night Chills by Dean Koontz Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Ordinary People by Judith Guest Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Separate Peace by John Knowles Silas Marner by George Eliot Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain The Bastard by John Jakes The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier The Color Purple by Alice Walker The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks The Living Bible by William C. Bower The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman The Pigman by Paul Zindel The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders The Shining by Stephen King The Witches by Roald Dahl The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
7. Palin never tried to ban any books. A document from the City of Wasilla indicates that only four library items have been challenged and that all four of these challenges occurred either well before or well after Palin was mayor. Go to http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=136 and click on "Banned or Censured Books Response."
8. One of the commenters below has included the hoax list, the bogus list of books Palin supposedly wanted to ban. As much as I abhor the woman, and am aghast that anyone would support her for anything, it must be pointed out that the list below Is. Not. True. People should never circulate stuff like that without checking Snopes.com for the possibility it's an urban legend or a hoax.
9. Sarah Palin never tried to ban any books. Just check with the City of Wasilla and you'll see that only four library items have been challenged and that all four of these challenges occurred either well before or well after Palin was mayor. You can go to the City of Wassila website and click on "Banned or Censured Books Response." Number two, other department heads (the librarian was actually Library Director) were asked to submit their letters of resignation (see first link). There is nothing fishy about this; it is quite common for a politician to "clean house" by asking for letters of resignation across the board and replacing his predecessor's appointees with his own. By the way, it's not uncommon at all for citizens to petition libraries to have books either added or removed. And what about the panel of librarians that gets to decide what's in the library? No one ever accuses them of bias!