This is NOT a list from Sarah Palin (that I know anyway). I am not sure if that's out there anywhere; but still it's fun to look at this one and wonder what damage each might do to a civil society.
Have you read any of them; and if so, have you been corrupted? Yes, I have read some (not all) and might have been corrupted-- but not by them. *s*
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 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
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
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 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
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
15 comments:
This is unbelievable! What is going on with this country? Who is putting out this kind of -- I won't say it. If this continues I think we might just as well give up on ever finding a new day for this country!
It makes no difference where the list came from...it should never exist to begin with! One book or a thousand, none is so bad that they deserve to be banned.
Instead, 'lists' should be banned, because no one has the right tell another what they can or cannot read!
But...what do I know? I've been corrupted as well. I read the Handmaid's Tale and liked it.
Yes, I've read several of these books. And, I don't know, I suppose some people might say that doing so ruined me for life!
I'm a retired librarian so I have first-hand knowledge of people who want to control what other people want to read. But rest assured that book banning isn't new, it's been around for many years.
Those who wish to ban books are nearly always fundamental Christians who oppose anything that deals with sex, homosexuality, witchcraft, or cursing.
And they are extremely passionate/confrontational when they make their demands. Like some of the commenters you see on liberal blogs, they believe they are right, you are wrong, but they never have any data to back it up.
As a librarian I tried every way I could think of to help these people understand that they had control over their own family's lives, but not the lives of other people. I also tried explaining to some that children get to experience life through books, they get to think about circumstances before they have to deal with them in person, that books can open dialogs between children and parents if you are involved in your children's lives.
All to no avail. I got to the point where I just let them yell at me and get red in the face. Then I turned away and went back to work.
So I have the utmost respect for the Wasilla librarian who stood up to Palin, knowing she might be fired for doing so. I also noticed that she found herself another job when Palin ran for re-election. Smart lady!
No book should be banned!! Tis is a form of government control.
However, if you use that list as ones you ought to read, it makes perfect sense.
Absolutely incredible that some of the best classics are on a list to be banned.
closed minds are like closed doors - nothing can get through them. They seem to be incapable of believing anything that doesn't fit their rigid and narrow ideas.
When I came upon EAST OF EDEN in that list it reminded me of how much I loved that book. I must read it again.
I like the idea of using the list as a "Must Read"-- I've read nearly 30 of them already. Not sure I could get through a Steven King. I would like to see the list of books Ms Palin gave to her local librarian to ban.
One of my grandchildren says she is not interested in young adult books because they are evil and she reads mostly LDS youth literature. Unless the books are classics on a must read list for college enterance exams. My point is there are lists not to read and other lists to read. The books on this list look like they should be on a to read list. I am about ready to go out and read some of these I haven't read yet.
Palin never gave the librarian a list of books. What Palin did do was ask the librarian what the process would be for banning books.
But make no mistake about it. Every librarian who is asked that question knows exactly what it means. And it is flat out intimidation.
It is utterly unbelieveable. Who's list is this, Rain??? That would be interesting to know.
I have read some of them and also seen the films that were made based on the boks---(All except the Harry Potter Series...It just is not something that interests me...)
This list is increduble. I love that two plays by Shakespeare are included. And "To Kill A Mockingbird"???? Help Us Oh Lord!
The list is floating around the Internet but without attribution. You can find different lists on wikipedia. This one, in my opinion, based on the titles, is a list of books that have been banned from the right or left political spectrum.
It is correct that Palin did not put up such a specific list. What she did was three different times ask the librarian what would it take to do it-- ban certain books? Which the librarian took as meaning Palin would if she could.
The librarian told her that the books in their library were those chosen by librarians as appropriate for small town libraries the size of theirs. She felt threatened at the idea of any political person (and left is just as capable) banning anything. From what I have heard Palin tried to get her fired but was that the reason? Who knows.
I don't think as things stand that the right wing can actually do banning; but we sure heard a lot of hassle after the Janet Jackson breast dared to pop out during a Super Bowl. Heavens we saw a nipple. How shocking. There are those who are not content to ban what they consider to be too sexual from network television and want to go after cable also. I think it's obvious that if censorship were possible, there are some who would do it.
I am btw all for censorship-- in your own home. Don't bring home things you disapprove of. Don't watch programming that offends you. Keep track of what your kids watch. When they grow up, they can do that for themselves but in my home, they were monitored-- but by us, their parents. I just don't like it when someone else wants to determine it for my family. I am more offended by graphic and salacious violence than I am sexy stuff; but I don't propose a ban on it for others. I can turn off my tv all by myself.
MY FRIEND FLICKA? good grief!! I have read 17 of them!! oh GOD we so need a change in our government!!!
And I agree with ya'll that it would be a great list TO READ!!!
It's quite likely this list comes from the American Library Association. Librarians report to the ALA titles of books patrons request to have banned or books that have actually been removed from the shelves.
Banned Books Week starts Sept. 27th. If you have the time, stop at your local public library and let the librarians know how much you appreciate their resistance to banning books.
Believe me when I tell you librarians often hear more negative than positive when it comes to this issue.
Well I have read 15 of the books and seen 16 movie versions of the books listed, many more I wish I had read, but I am not much of a book reader.
This reminds me of an episode of the Waltons where some religious do-gooder people in the town wanted to have a book burning of German books to protest what the Nazi’s were doing at the time. But when the local pastor picked up one of the books in German he recognized it and had someone who spoke German translate it. The first words read were “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” The so-called religious folks did not go through with the book burning and were ashamed of what they almost did. Many people think that they are doing something good and in reality they are doing the opposite. I say stimulate thought and debate on either side of an issue. If your side is so weak that you have to stifle opposing views then you do not deserve to have a side. I am against almost any government censorship. And I am with you Rain, feel free to censor your own house. If you do not like it, don’t read it, or turn the dial on the TV or Radio and do not watch or listen. But I do think it is funny how the left wants no part of censorship when it comes to print or television, but when it comes to talk radio they want “Fairness” and censorship all over the place.
As an author, this issue concerning her really bothers me. SO much SO that I've written letters to the editor for major newspapers across the country.
And I did lots of research, Rain....as of right now, no list of the actual books Palin considered having banned has been confirmed.
Terri
http://www.islandwriter.net
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