This is the American Library Association’s Banned Books Week. They have a list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books, and I have read, and loved, many of them. I have listed some below the cut.
Independent booksellers with Book Sense have created this list of ten banned books in support of Banned Books Week; read them!
1. TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, by Harper Lee
2. KING & KING & FAMILY, by Linda deHaan and Stern Nijland
3. BRAVE NEW WORLD, by Aldous Huxley
4. I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS, by Maya Angelou
5.THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, by Mark Twain
6. PLACES I NEVER MEANT TO BE: Original Stories by Censored Writers, edited by Judy Blume
7. FAHRENHEIT 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. FOOLS CROW, by James Welch (a beloved, much-missed local writer)
9. KAFFIR BOY: The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa, by Mark Mathabane
10. STONES FROM THE RIVER, by Ursula Hegi (a friend and teacher)
The list of frequently challenged books includes (and here I am listing only those I have read):
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou;
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Where’s Waldo??!?
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