Banned Book Meme
by Fazia Rizvi
12 July 2004, 2:50 PM

I don't think I've done this meme before, though I've seen it go around the web a lot. The following is a list of books that have been challenged or sucessfully banned from schools or public libraries. This list actually isn't complete. (Doesn't include books like Bridge To terabithis or The yearling or Harry Potter.) But it's long enough. :-( You can find out more from the American Library Association about or Banned-Books.com. And UPenn explains those that are listed here.

Those in bold are the ones I've either read or own.

1984 . George Orwell
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mark Twain [Samuel L. Clemens]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Lewis Carroll
Analects. Confucius
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl. Anne Frank
Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights. Anonymous
Beloved. Toni Morrison
The Bible
Brave New World. Aldous Huxley
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Dee Brown
The Call of the Wild. Jack London
Canterbury Tales. Geoffrey Chaucer
Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies. Vito Russo
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Roald Dahl
Clan of the Cave Bear. Jean Auel
The Color Purple. Alice Walker
The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm. Jacob and Wilhelm K. Grimm
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems. Galilei Galileo
Different Seasons. Stephen King
A Doll's House. Henrik Ibsen
Don Quixote. Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes
Earth Science. American Book
The Egypt Game. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury
The Figure in the Shadows. John Bellairs,br> Gone with the Wind. Margaret Mitchell
Grapes of Wrath. John Steinbeck
The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher. M.C. Escher
Grendel. John C. Gardner
Gulliver's Travels. Jonathan Swift
Hamlet. William Shakespeare
The Happy Prince and Other Stories. Oscar Wilde
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou
It. Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach. Roald Dahl
King Lear. William Shakespeare
The Koran
Le Morte D'Arthur. Sir Thomas Malory
The Life and Times of Renoir. Janice Anderson
A Light in the Attic. Shel Silverstein
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. C.S. Lewis
Little House in the Big Woods. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Little House on the Prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder
The Lorax. Dr. Seuss
The Lords of Discipline. Pat Conroy
The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury
My Friend Flicka. Mary O'Hara
The Odyssey. Homer
On the Origin of Species. Charles B. Darwin
Paradise Lost. John Milton
Raisin in the Sun. Lorraine Hansberry
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll. Jim Miller, ed
The Satanic Verses. Salman Rushdie
Slaughterhouse-Five. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Song of Solomon. Toni Morrison
The Stand. Stephen King
The Talmud. Soncino Pr.
To Kill a Mockingbird. Harper Lee
Tom Jones. Henry Fielding
Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare
Uncle Tom's Cabin. Harriet Beecher Stowe
Vasilissa the Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales
Welcome to the Monkey House. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Where the Sidewalk Ends. Shel Silverstein
Where's Waldo? Martin Handford
The Witches of Worm. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
A Wrinkle In Time. Madeleine L'Engle
Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings. D.T. Suzuki