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.