Banned Books

[truthgone12]

Sorrry. Ok this is the banned books thread. How many books have you read on this list

[Mithrandir]

Quick note: Let's not dirgress into an discussion/argument on the merrits of banning this book or that book.

*this has been a recording*

[EireWolf]

1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2 Animal Farm by George Orwell
3 Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
4 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
5 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6 Call of the Wild by Jack London
7 Candide by Voltaire
8 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
9 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
10 Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
11 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
12 The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (part of it)
13 How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
14 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
15 A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
16 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
17 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
18 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
19 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
20 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
21 Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
22 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

That last one is one of my all-time favorites. Wow... I've read 22 books that have been banned somewhere for some reason. I feel like such a rebel...

[kazekami]

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
3. Animal Farm by George Orwell
4. The Arabian Nights
5. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
6. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl ]
7. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
8. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
9. The Giver by Lois Lowry
10. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
11. Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
12. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
13. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
14. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
15. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell ISBN 0440445450
16. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
17. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
18. King Lear by William Shakespeare
19. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
20. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
21. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
22. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
23. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
24. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
25. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
26. The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
27. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
29. Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
30. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
31. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

*sweatdrop* Thats more then I thought. A good part of these I actually had to read in Junior high, high school, and Universty. Others like Jude the obscure I read because I liked them. heh. I must be a real rebel. heh

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I've read these banned books:

+ For Pleasure (many good, some not)
- For Primary and Highschool texts/books (some good, some not)


+ 1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

+ 2 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

- 3 Animal Farm by George Orwell

+ 4 The Arabian Nights

+ 5 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl

+ 6 The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney

+ 7 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

+ 8 Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine

- 9 The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

+ 10 The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

- 11 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

- 12 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

- 13 Lord of the Flies by William Golding

- 14 Macbeth by William Shakespeare

- 15 The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

+ 16 Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume

- 17 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

+ 18 The Witches by Roald Dahl

[Yamato145]

1. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Bridge To Terabithia by Katherine Patterson
4. The Canterbury Tales by Geofrrey Chaucer
5. The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger
6. Charlie and The Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
7. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
8. Goosebumps by R.L. Stine (most of them)
9. Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling (everything thats been released)
10. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
11. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
12. King Lear by William Shakespeare
13. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
14. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
15. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
16. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
17. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

And a whole lot on that list I've read part of ... but these are the ones I've read entirely. I also believe The Giver by Lois Lowry is banned ... I've read it too.

[Alice]

Some of the Alice series
Animal Farm, Orwell
Black Beauty (readers digest condensed version, when I was a kid) ^^
Call of the Wild
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Clockwork Orange (too much of it -- scarring book EWWW)
Fahrenheit 451 (good book)
Flowers for Algernon (the short story was better -- much cleaner)
Frankenstein (this is a classic, people!)
The Giver ( \o.o\ /o.o/ )
Hamlet (::huggles Hamlet:: )
Harry Potter (the first 2)
Julie of the Wolves (::snifflies:: so sad!!)
To Kill A Mockingbird ( \o.o\ /o.o/ )
Macbeth (::huggles Macbeth:: )
The Pigman
The Scarlet Letter (huh? why banned?)
Silas Marner (huh?)
Summer of My German Soldier (T.T)


Personally, I wish that books would have some sort of rating on the cover, to let you know what kind of stuff you're going to run across if you read it. Especially books for adults. I mean, just because I'm an adult doesn't mean I want to read semi-porno.

[kazekami]

I'm still the highest number!!!!

[Bobtheduck]

Why was James and the Giant Peach banned?

I didn't realize that the Anarchist cookbook was legal now, albeit with restrictions...

I wish that list explained who banned them and why they were banned...

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Some would be banned because they mention God, or have rascism, graphic violence, sex, language, drug abuse - stuff like that. But some of the books on the list have no reason to be banned.

[bigsleepj]

A lot of the books that they ask to be banned (like the works of Mark Twain) because some idiot deemed them racist when in fact the books speak out against racism. Basically a lot of these books are being banned by people who struggle to read between the lines.

Some books though are really evil and I wont point out which one it is, but they are understandably on the list.

The only reason I can think of James & the Giant Peach getting banned is because two nasty aunts get crushed by the eponymous fruit. Then again I did read it a long time ago.

[Technomancer]

The only reason I can think of James & the Giant Peach getting banned is because two nasty aunts get crushed by the eponymous fruit. Then again I did read it a long time ago.

Not so much the crushing of the aunts as showing such authority figures in a disrespectful light. There are some school adminstrators and parents who see any questioning of authority as a personal threat or rebuke, and hence the agitation to have such books banned.

[dragonshimmer]

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume (I personally loved this book)
4. Blubber by Judy Blume (Liked this one too)
5. Call of the Wild by Jack London
6. Carrie by Stephen King
7. Cujo by Stephen King
8. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
9. Flowers in the Attic by Virginia C. Andrews (I can't remember much of it...just that it was disturbing)
10. Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine (Why?)
11. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
12. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
13. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell ISBN 0440445450
14. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (only remember bits and pieces)
15. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
16. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
17. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
18. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
19. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
20. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
21. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (this is one of my favorite books...)
22. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin_Schwartz_ScaryStories
23. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume (? So many of her books are on here...)
24. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (another good book)
25. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (?!)

[Nate]

15. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
16. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

So does that mean you read it twice or that it was banned twice?

Just makin' fun of you.

Anyway, my list is much smaller, just Animal Farm and James and the Giant Peach.

[Scribs]

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Candide by Voltaire
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

Thats all that I have read, I am suprised that more books are not on that list. The Bible for instance. It has been banned in many places, and there are many places where it is still banned.

[dragonshimmer]

So does that mean you read it twice or that it was banned twice?

Just makin' fun of you.

Anyway, my list is much smaller, just Animal Farm and James and the Giant Peach.

Hey, it's no secret that I'm awful at multi-tasking, lol.

[kazekami]

I can see why The Choclate Wars and Madame Bovary are banned. They are both books I wouldn't have read if I didn't have to read them for class. Though if you take a book like Madame Bovary where a wife cheats on a husband we actually read antother like that in my 19th century Russian and French Literture class by George Sands. I don't recall the title but it wasn't on the list. I'm actually surprized more books weren't on the list. In my one class we actually talked about why the choclate wars was banned in class. I don't see that book as apropriate for young adults. But i do agree with bigsleepj about why most books get banned.

[Arnobius]

Keep in mind that these "banned" books are banned in individual libraries and school districts, not a nationwide ban (You can pretty much get any of those books on Amazon). Many of the books listed, I have read freely at my library and several were assigned at my school. It all depends on the people involved.

[Technomancer]

Tom Saywer
Huckleberry Finn
Arabian Nights
Brave New World
Candide
Farhenheit 451
Flowers for Algernon
Frankenstein
Hamlet
Harry Potter (all)
To Kill A Mockingbird
King Lear
The Lorax
Lord of the Flies
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice (our boy Willie sure gets around huh?)
1984
On the Origin of Species
The Prince
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut rules!)
Spycatcher
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Where’s Waldo
The Catcher in the Rye
Killing Mr. Griffin
James and the Giant Peach
The Communist Manifesto

A pretty eclectc mix here. The censors come from all sides of the religious and poltical spectrum. Fortunately, I went to a highschool where the principal had little patience with those attitudes, and made sure we an excellent library.

[Maledicte]

The Catcher in the Rye --I can imagine why.
A Clockwork Orange --Same here, actually.
The Da Vinci Code --Read it, despised it.
Fahrenheit 451 --rather obvious why this one would be banned...
Frankenstein --Eh?
Of Mice and Men --Double eh?
The Pillars of the Earth --One of my top favorite books. I'm charmed that it's on this list, for some twisted reason.
Silas Marner --read in high school. Banned? weird.
Where's Waldo? --all right what is up with that?

[Alice]

Fahrenheit 451 --rather obvious why this one would be banned...

Hahahaha~! Oo, irony!

[Rita]

I've read 23 of those banned books. Aren't I naughty?

[Slater]

# Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
# The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
# The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
# Call of the Wild by Jack London
# The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
# Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
# Hamlet by William Shakespeare
# Kama Sutra
# To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
# Macbeth by William Shakespeare
# The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
# Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

wow, I'm the only one here who read Kama Sutra... I feel dirty

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Kama Sutra? I wouldn't read that. Just by the title you can tell its going to be dirty. Did you read it before you became a Christian?

[mitsuki lover]

I have read the following:
*The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain:Hemingway called it the
greatest novel ever written by an American or something like.

*The Age Of Reason:Probably one of the greatest political tracts written in America.

*The Arabian Nights:Read the unbowlderized version.

*Brave New World:Huxley at his best.

*Call Of The Wild:The classic back to nature story.

*Candide:I read the English translation and find it hilarious,but also hav it in French.

*The Canterbury Tales:A lot of them are just hilarious to read!

*Catcher In The Rye:I found it personally a bore.

*Cujo:Dog bites man!

FLowers For Algernon:We had to read this for sophmore English in high school.

*Hamlet:The greatest play Shakespeare wrote.

*Harry Potter:I still want him to end up with Hermione!

*Leaves Of Grass:Not the whole book but some of it in an American Lit. anthology
for American Lit. in College.

*MacBeth:Needless to say the Bard got it all wrong!

*Origin of The Species:More people ought to read it.

*The Pigman:Yes,we also had to read this in sophomore English in high school.

*The Rights of Man:I just read a bit of it,but it shows Paine trying to justify the
French Revolution.

*The Scarlet Letter:Hester Prym,America's most famous adulteress.

*Uncle Tom's Cabin:Simon Legree was a Yankee!

[Spiritsword]

I've read or read part of:

Tom Sawyer
Huck Finn
Black Beauty
Call of the Wild
Canterbury Tales
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A Day no Pigs Would Die
Flowers for Algernon
Hamlet
Handmaid's Tale
Harry Potter
How to Eat Fried Worms
James and the Giant Peach
A Light in the Attic
Macbeth
The Outsiders
The Pigman (I think)
Scarlet Letter
A Separate Peace
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Where's Waldo
A Wrinkle in Time

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

How to Eat Fried Worms, is that the book were a boy is dared by his peers to eat worms for some money or something? If so why ban that? Pretty harmless really. If it is that one, I've also read it.

[kazekami]

I've read 23 of those banned books. Aren't I naughty?

At least you don't have 31 like me. heh heh.

[Kaori]

1. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2. Animal Farm by George Orwell
3. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
4. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
5. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
6. Call of the Wild by Jack London
7. Candide by Voltaire
8. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
9. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
10. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
11. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
12. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
13. The Giver by Lois Lowry
14. Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
15. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
16. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
17. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
18. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
19. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
20. King Lear by William Shakespeare
21. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
22. The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
23. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
24. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
25. Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
26. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
27. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28. The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare
29. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle


I've also read excerpts of the following books:

• The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
• Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

[chimera189]

1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
2 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
3 Animal Farm by George Orwell
4 The Arabian Nights
5 Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
6 Call of the Wild by Jack London
7 The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
8 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
9 A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
10 The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
11 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
12 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
13 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
14 The Giver by Lois Lowry
15 Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
16 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
17 How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
18 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
19 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
20 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
21 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
22 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
23 Silas Marner by George Eliot
24 The Story of Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
25 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
26 Where's Waldo? by Martin Hanford