It's Banned Books Week!

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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.

1984 - George Orwell

Across Five Aprils - Irene Hunt

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The - Mark Twain

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day - Judith Viorst

All Creatures Great and Small - James Herriot

Amelia Bedelia - Peggy Parish

Anne of Avonlea - L. M. Montgomery

Anne of Green Gables - L. M. Montgomery

Anne of the Island - L. M. Montgomery

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret - Judy Blume

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh

Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

Call of the Wild, The - Jack London

Candide - Voltaire

Cat in the Hat - Dr. Seuss

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Charlotte's Web - E. B. White

Cider House Rules - John Irving

Cold Sassy Tree - Olive Ann Burns

>Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare

Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

Crucible - Arthur Miller

Curious George - H. A. Rey

Cyrano de Bergerac - Edmond Rostand

Dicey's Song - Cynthia Voigt

Dubliners - James Joyce

Dune - Frank Herbert

Egypt Game, The - Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Elements of Style - William Strunk & E.B. White

Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury

Far Side, The - Gary Larson

Fiddler on the Roof - Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick

From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler - E. L. Konigsburg

Giver, The - Lois Lowry

Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams

Goodnight Moon - Margaret Wise Brown

Green Eggs and Ham - Dr. Seuss

Handmaid's Tale, A - Margaret Atwood

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - J. K. Rowling

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Howards End - E. M. Forster

Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde

Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice

Island of the Blue Dolphins - Scott O'Dell

Ivanhoe - Sir Walter Scott

James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl

Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach

King John - William Shakespeare

King Lear - William Shakespeare

Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The - C.S. Lewis

Little Prince. The - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Little Princess - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Lorax, The - Dr. Seuss

Love's Labour's Lost - William Shakespeare

Lysistrata - Aristophanes

Madeline - Ludwig Bemelmans

Martian Chronicles - Ray Bradbury

Merry Wives of Windsor - William Shakespeare

Mikado - Arthur Sullivan and W. S. Gilbert

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh - Robert C. O'Brien

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Passage to India - E. M. Forster

Perfect Storm - Sebastian Junger

Pericles - William Shakespeare

Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren

Prince Caspian the Return to Narnia - C. S. Lewis

Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry - Mildred D. Taylor

Room With a View - E. M. Forster

Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy

Separate Peace, A - James Knowles

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

Silver Chair - C. S. Lewis

Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence

Stuart Little - E. B. White

Summer of the Swans - Betsy Cromer Byars

Tale of Benjamin Bunny - Beatrix Potter

Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Time Machine - H. G. Wells

Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Troilus and Cressida - William Shakespeare

Trumpet of the Swan - E. B. White

Tuck Everlasting - Natalie Babbitt

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

Two Gentlemen of Verona - William Shakespeare

Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco

Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

Voyage of the Dawn Treader - C. S. Lewis

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

West Side Story - Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim

Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls

Where the Sidewalk Ends - Shel Silverstein

Where the Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears - Verna Aardema

Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne

Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare

Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Speare

Witches of Worm, The - Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Wrinkle In Time, A - Madeleine L'Engle

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.