110 Banned Books

[eredien]

Borrowed from Homasse. Thank you.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#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
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - And I hope never to read more. I hate Whitman.
#11 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe - I have this. I haven't read it yet.
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo - I need to finish this one. Started in the unabridged edition and got halfway through before the heat of summer took away all my powers of concentration. I really loved it though.
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne - I need to read all of them at some point. I have read many, many excerpts and essays about his essays. Brilliant. Waxes poetic about the ability to itch oneself, and what a delight it is to smell.
#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 - Yes, I've read all of it. And parts of it again. And need to reread the entire thing. I love Pangloss. :)
#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
#36 Das Capital 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 - Have it. Haven't read 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 - Keep meaning to read it.
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - If you haven't read this, and you care about censorship, or good literature, read it. Now.
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak - I really, really should try to read this in Russian...
#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 - I'd like to read this but each time I try I fail miserably.
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais - I read a bit of this when I was about five. Don't remember it.
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles - Didn't really like it though.
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath - I will never read any more of this. Bad memories associated with it.
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck - This is one of my favorites of all time.
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl - Why was this banned?
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut - Couldn't grasp any meaning in it.
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George - I would have liked this had I not been forced to read it over the span of two months instead of the span of a day. Why is it banned?
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - I liked other things I read by Goethe.
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood - Keep meaning to read it.
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier - I read it in third grade and hated it. I still think it was one of the dumbest books of all time.
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin - What is this book about? Plot summary, anyone?
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - I would read this but I went through my "Gulag/Dystopian Literature/Holocaust Literature" phase in 8th grade and can't go back to it again.
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein - Please read. Brilliant.
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark - I'm suprised more people haven't read this; it's a famous example of the form.
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes - This is one of my favorites.

Comments

[pendragon-books.livejournal.com]

James and the giant peach is banned because the aunts are evil in the beginning. Something about parental figures being presented in a negative manner.

I dunno about alot of the rest of the children's books.

[mithent.livejournal.com]

Where exactly are these banned? Are they ones which have been banned at some point in their history? Some seem implausible... Sherlock Holmes?

[wherdragon.livejournal.com]

I wondered about the History of the Roman Empire one. That seems rather harmless...

[breimh.livejournal.com]

I see nothing wrong with any of these books, aside from what some people might misconstrue what is being said, or place emphasis of some meaning on the writings that they (those banning the books) just don't agree with.

I've actually read all of the books on this list, and found each one (that I can remember) to be interesting in it's own right. As for what Go Tell It On the Mountain is about, I really can't recall the premise off the top of my head, since I read it a very long time ago.

I did like 1984, Red Pony and Bridge to Terabithia a lot. And I have each of the religious-type texts (ie: Bible, Koran, Talmud) as well as a number of other religiously inclined texts that were banned long ago, when I was in Jr. High (like The Keys of Solomon the King by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers, The Scrolls of the Dead Sea by Edmond Wilson, and The Mabinogion) sitting on a shelf in the living room, along with my copies of The Prince, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and the Chronicles of Mu (The Lost Continent of Mu, The Second Book of the Cosmic Forces of Mu, The Children of Mu and The Sacred Symbols of Mu) by James Churchward.

One that I have read since then, that I really like from this list, is Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene.

I encourage you to read any on the list that you haven't, and make your own... informed... opinion if you feel these books are dangerous or vulgar. Talk about why you find them so. After all, that's the only way you can stress your morals and try to influence others around you to find similar ideals.

We shouldn't ban books, music or movies, but instead guide others to understand the perspective of the creators of said medium and why society isn't influenced in the same manner. In this way, we disarm a mind that would otherwise be piqued with couriosity to be excited by the idea to court with ideas... or those who try things... which would be considered abnormal or harmful to themselves and/or others around them.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

I'll post mine when I'm back from church, but I notice some that we were supposed to read all of for school that I never finished (Madame Bovary, for example). I find it interesting how many of the books I failed to finish in High School English were assigned by teachers I didn't like...

[eredien]

I think these are books which have been banned, or (possibly) are currently banned, in America. Possibly by uptight parent's groups or similar groups in the public school system.

Sherlock Holmes I can point right away: violence, suicide, and drug use.