Sep. 29th, 2008

monkeybard: (grammarcat)
Out of curiosity, I went hunting for a list of banned books so that I could see what I've read that some idiots have banned at some point. I found a complete list from 2005 here: http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/complete.htm and a shorter but still interesting list here: http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/

I went through the list (which contains a lot of music and I can't see how those are "books but whatever) and found 109 that I know I have read. There were some that I know, but don't know that I personally have read (mostly fairy tales--I know 'em, but have I read 'em? Who knows?) There were also seven in particular that I've wanted to read but haven't gotten around to yet.

Here's my list.

My banned books )

And the ones I want to read:

Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

Room of One's Own - Virginia Woolf

Saint Joan - George Bernard Shaw

Sorrows of Young Werther - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein

Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

Ulysses - James Joyce

So, what banned books have you read and which was your favourite? My fave, you ask? Right now I'd have to say it's Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

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