I thought I'd start the ball rolling by putting up the ALA's list of 100 banned and challenged classic books. The X next to a book means I've read it. How many banned books have you read?
1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald X (loved it)
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger X
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck X
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee X (loved it)
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker X
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce X
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison X
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding X
9. 1984, by George Orwell X10. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White X (one of my childhood favorites)
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller X
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley X (strangest, most interesting book ever)
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell X (hated it, but I read it)
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway X21. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad X (pretentious, boring book)
22. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne X
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston X
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison X
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell X (love it, better than the movie)
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey X
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut X (Thank you Jonathan Hartzell for introducing me to Vonnegut!)
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway X (awesome book)31. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway X
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London X
34. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien X (wonderful book)
41. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton X (I love Edith Wharton)
43. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand X (I do not love Ayn Rand)
44. Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum X
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence X
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin X (I loved this book)51. My Antonia, by Willa Cather X (one of my favorites)
52. Howards End, by E.M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz, by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe X
66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut X
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles 68. Light in August, by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe X (great book)
71. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams X
73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh X
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe X
77. In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise, by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells X
86. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians, by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame X (lovely book)
91. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand X (eh)
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
94. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike X (I like his other banned book better--The Witches of Eastwick)
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster
99. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie
I've read 41 of the banned books on this list. How many have you read? Which of these are books you love?
I've read maybe ten of them and I read them in my English classes. Mostly anyway. I hated most of them. Not all of them but then again had i read them on my own time and not been forced into them maybe I would have liked them. I hate being told what to read and what pace to read it on.
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