Brownian Motion Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States 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 http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html Quote
Jazzmoose Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Only fourteen, but then I don't care for Stephen King... "Flowers for Algernon"???? For crying out loud, why? Quote
Brownian Motion Posted September 8, 2008 Author Report Posted September 8, 2008 Only fourteen, but then I don't care for Stephen King... "Flowers for Algernon"???? For crying out loud, why? Medical science making a god-like intervention on the side of intelligence? Quote
connoisseur series500 Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Very large list. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Medical science making a god-like intervention on the side of intelligence? But you'd have to be incredibly ignorant to take a book like that and build it up into something....oh; nevermind. Quote
blajay Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Very large list. Actually, I would have guessed it'd be much larger. Books like The Little Red Book, Guerrilla Warfare, Steal This Book, The Anarchist Cookbook, anything by Bakunin, Marx, Fanon... I think there have to be others that have been banned. Darwin, for crying out loud!? I doubt this is accurate. Quote
Brownian Motion Posted September 8, 2008 Author Report Posted September 8, 2008 Very large list. Actually, I would have guessed it'd be much larger. Books like The Little Red Book, Guerrilla Warfare, Steal This Book, The Anarchist Cookbook, anything by Bakunin, Marx, Fanon... I think there have to be others that have been banned. Darwin, for crying out loud!? I doubt this is accurate. I think it's accurate but incomplete. Quote
Hardbopjazz Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 11 for me. I would like to know the reason they were banned. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Bad parlor game. I am sure you can find some reference to the banning of "Bambi" (This book made my child cry.). This is too easy. Quote
GA Russell Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 I'm wondering what was the issue with My Friend Flicka. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 I'm wondering what was the issue with My Friend Flicka. Why, it's horsey heresy! Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 I'm wondering what was the issue with My Friend Flicka. The human/horse sex scene. Did you miss that? Quote
RDK Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Wow. 26, but I do like Stephen King. Surprised by some of these - and I know there's many more. Quote
Free For All Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 I read several of the named books, mostly in high school and college. I will admit to liking Stephen King, Dean Koontz and the Harry Potter books (although I kind of lost interest as the latter series progressed). Also love Vonnegut and Mark Twain. Tried but couldn't get into Faulkner. There are lots of titles there I should have but haven't yet read. Oh well...... My "formative" years consisted mostly of this kind of thing: I won't be curing any diseases or discovering time travel anytime soon. Quote
Free For All Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 I'm wondering what was the issue with My Friend Flicka. The human/horse sex scene. Did you miss that? I have that one on DVD- it's an equine double feature, "My Friend Fucka" and "Mr. Head". Quote
Free For All Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 I knew you'd have it. Oh, almost forgot......"National Vulva" Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 I knew you'd have it. Oh, almost forgot......"National Vulva" Way too expansive for me. Quote
Free For All Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Way too expansive for me. Not at all, I got it on sale. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted September 8, 2008 Report Posted September 8, 2008 Way too expansive for me. Not at all, I got it on sale. Quote
Chuck Nessa Posted September 9, 2008 Report Posted September 9, 2008 This thread may get banned! Is Sarah here? Quote
ejp626 Posted September 9, 2008 Report Posted September 9, 2008 26 (Huck Finn is listed twice, so don't double count.) Having trouble understanding why James and the Giant Peach is banned, unless it is wish fulfillment that James' awful aunts are smooshed by the giant peach at the end. I guess the evil aunt/step-mother lobby spoke out. Quote
Jazzmoose Posted September 9, 2008 Report Posted September 9, 2008 (Huck Finn is listed twice, so don't double count.) I assumed that the sick bastard Twain tried to sneak a different version by the censors... Quote
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