Wed 28 Feb 2007
Hear Me Calling
Posted by The Silver Fox under Books
Hey! It’s Freedom to Read Week! In Canada anyway. Do we have on of these here in the States? (Yes, we do apparently.) You’d think as librarian-in-training I’d be on top of this kind of thing… Anyway - who knew?
The Doppelganger did, so I will follow her example and note the banned books I have read in my lifetime.
Angelou, Maya - I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings
Auel, Jean M. - Clan of the Cave Bear
Conrad, Joseph - Heart of Darkness
Cormier, Robert - The Chocolate War
Dahl, Roald - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Dahl, Roald - James and the Giant Peach
Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby
Hawthorne, Nathaniel - The Scarlet Letter
Hemingway, Ernest - The Sun Also Rises
Hinton, S.E. - The Outsiders
Hinston, S.E. - That Was Then, This Is Now
L’Engle, Madeleine - A Wrinkle in Time
Lewis, C. S. - Chronicles of Narnia
London, Jack - The Call of the Wild
Orwell, George - 1984
Orwell, George - Animal Farm
Paterson, Katherine - Bridge To Terebithia
Rockwell, Thomas - How to Eat Fried Worms
Rowling, J.K. - Harry Potter (the series)
Salinger, J.D. - Catcher in the Rye
Shakespeare, William - Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare, William - Hamlet
Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein
Silverstein, Shell - A Light in the Attic
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain, Mark - The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A large chunk of these I read in high school. So don’t blame me, blame the Jesuits.



