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.