Get 'Em While They're Hot! List Of the Infamous Banned Books

[QueenOfCalifornia]

If this list has been posted, Sorry - But I couldn't find an OP with this information:


Palin's List of Dangerous Reading - Books she wanted banned are:

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween
Symbols by Edna Barth

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Do you have a link?

[merh]

2. edit

list debunked

[WeDidIt]

3. DEBUNKED

Copy and pasted straight from here:

http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html

[QueenOfCalifornia]

7. I got this in an email

from a reliable source.

But I am not arguing - I just got an email....

The email said this was the list of books she wanted banned.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

16. Don't pass on unverified crap. Email is not a reliable source. Duh.

[anigbrowl]

17. Then you fail hard. Rule #1: don't believe everything you read.

[jakem]

4. OMFG! this has been posted and debunked for days now!!!

it is a generic list.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

5. There's no way Sister Sarah knows about all those books.

She strikes me as an incurious moron who doesn't read anything heavier than People or the Left Behind series. If this is true, she got the list from some fundie organization.

[lurky]

6. "The Color Purple"? "James & the Giant Peach"?

"Tom Sawyer"?

Notice all the books mentioning witchcraft/magic. Clearly this is religiously driven.

[YOY]

15. They don't like The Color Purple because it has Lesbianism. (Celie and Shug)

Tom Sawyer uses "racist language" but once one scratches beneath the langauage it is obviously anything but racist. Anyone who has read it knows that Jim was more of a father to Huck than his real old man.

As for James and The Giant Peach: http://www.bookslut.com/banned_bookslut/2003_12_001147.php . Aunts Spiker and Sponge are crushed by the peach. It also has somewhat "magic undertones." Disrespect for authority.

Hey Lurk is that the same Fallout fan I knew under a different handle?

[applegrove]

8. Unbelievable.

[kwolf68]

9. We need facts

Palin discussed the idea of banning books and if and how it could be done. The Librarian's comments I read made no mention of specific books.

Palin was smart...she didn't mention which books, she just wanted to 'vett' the Librarian. Once Palin found a dissenting voice she moved on.

There is no NO doubt in my mind Palin is a book banner and she would indeed ban books that in ANY way conflicted with her view of Christian theology. However, we have no evidence or proof of this, no actual statements she has made, just a Librarian.

I believe in my heart of hearts she is a fasicst book burner, but we can't beat her with this one, because there just isn't enough evidence (yet?).

[YOY]

10. What? No Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice???

The one that makes God and the Devil out to be completely f***ing insane monsters both.

[lumberjack_jeff]

11. Not the list. Most of the Harry Potter books were published after she fired the librarian. n/t

[SurfingAtWork]

12. There was a thread about this with a link, which was debunked

And the thread was locked

[Kerrytravelers]

13. List debunked.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Posting false information is just handing points to the opposition. Stop.

[John Q. Citizen]

18. The list is a hoax. Note which Harry Potter Books weren't published when she was mayor.

They have no list of which books were allegedly targeted by the overly-zealous mayor.

[iamahaingttta]

19. Actually, that's a pretty good list of books there...

...a must read list if I ever saw one!

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

20. Hoax. Debunked.