Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Read a Banned Book Week !

Support the First Amendment, Read a Banned Book

This list of banned books is from Randomhouse.com

BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

LYNNE REID BANKS
Indian in the Cupboard

JUDY BLUME
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret.
Blubber
Deenie
Tiger Eyes

JAMES LINCOLN COLLIER AND CHRISTOPHER COLLIER
Jump Ship to Freedom
War Comes to Willy Freeman

CAROLINE B. COONEY
The Face on the Milk Carton

ROBERT CORMIER
The Chocolate War
Beyond the Chocolate War
Fade
We All Fall Down


ROALD DAHL
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
James and the Giant Peach

LOIS DUNCAN
Killing Mr. Griffin

S. E. HINTON
Taming the Star Runner
Tex

ANNETTE KLAUSE
Blood and Chocolate

LOIS LOWRY
The Giver
The Anastasia Krupnik Series
Anastasia Krupnik
Anastasia Absolutely
Anastasia Again
Anastasia at This Address
Anastasia at Your Service
Anastasia Has the Answers
Anastasia on Her Own
Anastasia’s Chosen Career
Anastasia, Ask Your Analyst

GARY PAULSEN
Harris and Me
Nightjohn

ROBERT NEWTON PECK
A Day No Pigs Would Die

PHILIP PULLMAN
The Golden Compass
The White Mercedes

THOMAS ROCKWELL
How to Eat Fried Worms

LOUIS SACHAR
The Boy Who Lost His Face

ZILPHA KEATLEY SNYDER
The Headless Cupid

THEODORE TAYLOR
The Cay

BOOKS FOR ADULTS

ISABEL ALLENDE
House of the Spirits

MAYA ANGELOU
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

MARGARET ATWOOD
Handmaid's Tale

RAY BRADBURY
Fahrenheit 451

DAN BROWN
Da Vinci Code

PAT CONROY
Water is Wide

BRYCE COURTENAY
Power of One

BRET EASTON ELLIS
American Psycho

RALPH ELLISON
Invisible Man

WILLIAM FAULKNER
As I Lay Dying

ERNEST J. GAINES
A Lesson Before Dying

ROBERT GRAVES
I Claudius

DAVID GUTERSON
Snow Falling on Cedars

JOHN IRVING
A Prayer for Owen Meany

JAMES JOYCE
Ulysses

MALCOLM X
Autobiography of Malcolm X

TONI MORRISON
Bluest Eye

VLADIMIR NABOKOV
Lolita

TIM O'BRIEN
Things They Carried

CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Choke

BORIS PASTERNAK
Doctor Zhivago

MICHAEL POLLAN
Botany of Desire

PHILIP ROTH
Portnoy's Complaint

SALMAN RUSHDIE
Satanic Verses

WILLIAM STYRON
Sophie's Choice

THE FREEDOM WRITERS
Freedom Writers Diary: Movie-Tie-In

KURT VONNEGUT
Slaughterhouse-Five