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Gacked from torn_eledhwen, The Banned Book Meme: A list of the 109 most-banned books ... bold the ones you've read; italicize the ones of which you've read part. Underline the ones you want to read.

I'm not very well-read, I'm afraid. Sort of surprised me that so many of these are on the core reading lists for high schools here.


1. The Bible
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (I may have read the whole thing...can't remember)
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
4. The Koran
5. Arabian Nights (The translation by Sir Richard Burton is so superb--I grew up reading this)
6. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
7. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
9. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Had to read it in high school)
10. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman (Ol' Walt was an interesting character, wasn't he?)
11. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
12. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
15. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (Got to go to the library and read this, instead of disecting the cat in science class in ninth grade. Still got an 'A' though. So there.)
16. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
18. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
19. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
20. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
21. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
23. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
24. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
25. Ulysses by James Joyce
26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
27. Animal Farm by George Orwell
28. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
29. Candide by Voltaire
30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
31. Analects by Confucius
32. Dubliners by James Joyce
33. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
34. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
35. Red and the Black by Stendhal (Was forced to read this in high school. Probably would appreciate it more now.)
36. Das Kapital by Karl Marx
37. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
41. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
42. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (A superb book. Don't miss it.)
43. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
44. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
45. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
46. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
47. Diary by Samuel Pepys (abridged bits)
48. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
49. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
50. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
51. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak (I kept envisioning the young Omar Sharife when I was reading this, and got through it just fine.)
52. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
54. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
55. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (Great book.)
56. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
57. Color Purple by Alice Walker (Another great book.)
58. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
59. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
60. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
61. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
62. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
63. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
64. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
65. Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
66. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
67. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
68. The Talmud
69. Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
70. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
71. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
72. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
73. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
74. Separate Peace by John Knowles
75. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
76. Red Pony by John Steinbeck (I know I read this, but I hated it.)
77. Popol Vuh
78. Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
79. Satyricon by Petronius
80. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
81. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
82. Black Boy by Richard Wright
83. Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
84. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
85. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
86. Metaphysics by Aristotle
87. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Like Eledhwen, I read the whole series.)
88. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
89. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
90. Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
91. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
92. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
93. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
94. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
95. Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
96. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
97. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
98. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
99. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
100. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
101. Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
102. Nana by Emile Zola
103. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
104. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
105. Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
106. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
107. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck (A lot of vivid images in this one. Some of them rather horrible.)
108. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
109. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Comments

[shrieking-ell.livejournal.com]

Interesting list. I've read a bunch of these. Many in High School as required reading.

re #35 - Not only was I forced to read Le Rouge et le Noir, I was forced to read it in French! Count yourself lucky

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

In French?? It was definitely bad enough in English.

[torn-eledhwen.livejournal.com]

I think it's better in French. Most books are best read in their original languages.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Oh, I agree. Any translation probably loses some of the nuance of the original.

[elessil.livejournal.com]

Considering my age, I've read a scary amount of these.

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

That's great!

I seem to have read parts of quite a few, which certainly reflects poorly on my reading habits. I'm just a fickle creature.

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

Given my reputation as a complete bookworm, I've read hardly anything :-p Have to keep an eye open for that Robert Heinlein one though, as I tend to whole-heartedly love all his stuff (and in some ways I'm fairly surprised there isn't more than one of his books on the list - probably due to it getting classed as sci-fi & therefore ignored by self-important people)

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

I haven't read much Heinlein, but my daughter, ladymora, loves his stuff.

It would be interesting to know why and by whom these books were banned.

[tiggothy.livejournal.com]

Aye, it would indeed... unfortunately, no one seems to know where the original list comes from - I've seen it several times now, in different groups of friends & that *shrug* Guess we may never know, eh?

[hendercats.livejournal.com]

It would be interesting to know why and by whom these books were banned.
Certainly would! Especially the why - Little House on the Prairie???

[geekmama.livejournal.com]

Yes, I find that one very weird, too. I can't remember anything controversial in any of the books in that series.