Banned Books Challenge

[Asteria Euphrasia]

As you all may have not realiazed this previous week(September 27th-October 3rd) was banned books week. A week made to spread awareness of the massive amounts of books being banned and challenged to be banned. I, being the curious person I am, spent the week in research for knowledge of the books and came up with an idea of protest. The bulk of these books are being banned and challenged for simple reasons like "We don't want to corrupt the youth" I say, "If you don't want them to read it tell them not to! There are others out there who aren't easily influenced enough to get anything from these books and would love to read them!"

So this is where I came to my point of "I need help..." Not only do I need more people to help spread awareness of this horrible thing happening to our libraries, but I need people to join my future book club(I shall make a website for it when I get the 'okay')but I also need people to help make a list with me. A list of banned books(or challenged to be banned)in which the club will take a book off the list to read togethor(like a real book club)and then talk about it togethor. Except the differance is we will be reading books of public interest.

Obviously we will not read all of these books. Some we will just talk about how the topic and main view of the book should be seen through public eyes. Also how it is seen through public eyes. But we will read some. The sad thing is...this is but a meagor fraction of the real amount that have or will be banned. I need anyone's help in making this list longer. Please look up and post links to sites that have lists of banned books. I will sift through them and add to the list. Eventually making the "Master list" and then releasing it to the public.

1984 - George Orwell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
Age of Reason - Thomas Paine
Andersonville (1955) - MacKinlay Kantor
Animal Farm - George Orwell
Arabian Nights
As I Lay Dying (1932) - William Faulkner
Awakening - Kate Chopin
Beloved - Toni Morrison
Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
Bless Me, Ultima - Rudolfo A. Anaya
Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Call of the Wild - Jack London
Can Such Things Be? - Ambrose Bierce
Candide - Voltaire
Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
Catcher in the Rye (1951) - J. D. Salinger
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
Color Purple - Alice Walker
Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Death in Venice - Thomas Mann
Decameron - Boccaccio
Dubliners - James Joyce
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
Fanny Hill - John Cleland
Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
Grapes of Wrath (1939) - John Steinbeck
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
Howl - Allen Ginsberg
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
King Lear - William Shakespeare
Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman
Lolita (1955) - Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Lysistrata - Aristophanes
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Madame Bovary
Merchant of Venice - William Shakespeare
Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe
Monk - Matthew Lewis
Native Son - Richard Wright
------ of the Narcissus - Joseph Conrad
Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
Origin of the Species - Charles Darwin
Passage to India
Portnoy's Complaint (1969) - Philip Roth
Rights of Man - Thomas Paine
Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie
Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Separate Peace - John Knowles
Silas Marner - George Eliot
Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison
Sons & Lovers - D.H. Lawrence
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Tropic of Capricorn - Henry Miller
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Ulysses - James Joyce
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Wrinkle in Time - Madeleine L'Engle
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

[Sky]

Nuuuuuuuuuuuu catcher of the rye is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

[seli-chan]

to kill a mockin bird nuuuuuuuuuuuu ;-; i love that book they can't ban it noooo

[*~Ita-chan~*]

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings and Lord of the Flies are good books

[seli-chan]

i found a long list scroll down when u click it the link http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html the list is in the link T~T

[SetoKaiba]

if they even try to ban these books ima give em a dark link special!!!!!!1

[Asteria Euphrasia]

Another site with a differant list(some may be the same):
http://www.banned-books.com/bblista-i.html
http://www.banned-books.com/bblistj-z.html

[seli-chan]

http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/info.html 10 most challenged books!! ;-;

[Asteria Euphrasia]

Actually Itachi, I am currently readinf "Lord of the flies" in my english class. The teacher found it quite amusing.

[*~Ita-chan~*]

I read it last year in english class too thats how i know about it lol. I've seen the movie too.