Banned Books
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sheikah, mostly because I think it's hilarious that some of these are banned. Obviously there have been lots of people out there who think that others are too ignorant to discern between real life and fiction: or shouldn't learn about reality. I should have more of these read, really.
1984
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alice series
All the King's Men
Always Running
American Psycho
An American Tragedy
The Anarchist Cookbook
Anastasia Again!
And Tango Makes Three
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Annie on my Mind
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (This is banned? Seriously? -Obviously teaching girl's about themselves is WRONG, wrong!)
Arming America
Arizona Kid
As I Lay Dying
Asking About Sex and Growing Up
Athletic Shorts
Beloved
Black Boy
Bless Me, Ultima
Blood and Chocolate
Blubber
The Bluest Eye
The Boy Who Lost His Face
Boys and Sex
Brave New World
Bridge to Terabithia
Bumps in the Night
The Call of the Wild
Captain Underpants
Carrie (...this almost makes me facepalm as much as Harry Potter does)
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
Cat's Cradle
The Chocolate War
Christine
A Clockwork Orange
The Color Purple
Crazy Lady
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat
Cujo
Curses, Hexes and Spells
Cut
Daddy's Roommate
A Day No Pigs Would Die
The Dead Zone
Deenie
Detour for Emmy
The Drowning of Stephan Jones
Earth's Children (series)
The Exorcist
The Face on the Milk Carton
Fade
Fallen Angels
Family Secrets
A Farewell to Arms
Final Exit
Flowers for Algernon
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Forever
Girls and Sex
The Giver
Go Ask Alice
Go Tell it on the Mountain
The Goats
Gone with the Wind
Goosebumps (series) (Erin says LOL to this!)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Guess What?
Halloween ABC
The Handmaid's Tale
Harry Potter (series)
Heart of Darkness
Heather has Two Mommies
The House of the Spirits
How to Eat Fried Worms
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
In Cold Blood
In the Night Kitchen
Invisible Man
It's Perfectly Normal
It's So Amazing
Jack
James and the Giant Peach
Jay's Journal
Julie of the Wolves
Jump Ship to Freedom
Jumper
The Jungle
Kaffir Boy
Killing Mr. Griffin
Lady Chatterly's Lover
A Light in the Attic
Little Black Sambo
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Mommy Laid an Egg
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Naked and the Dead
Naked Lunch
Native Son
The New Joy of Gay Sex
Of Mice and Men
On My Honor
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ordinary People
The Outsiders
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Pillars of Earth
The Pigman
Private Parts
Rabbit, Run
Running Loose
The Satanic Verses
Scary Stories (series) (That series for kids...with the mildly spooky pictures on the covers? Anyone my age read those...I LOVED them as kid.)
A Separate Peace
Sex
Sex Education
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Sledding Hill
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy (2/3 at the moment...I can understand why someone wouldn't want their kids reading this, but adults are free to do what they want? o.O)
Song of Solomon (novel)
Sons and Lovers
The Stupids (series)
Summer of my German Soldier
The Sun Also Rises
That Was Then, This Is Now
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Tiger Eyes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tropic of Cancer
Ulysses
View from the Cherry Tree
We All Fall Down
Whale Talk
What my Mother Doesn't Know
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters
Where Did I Come From?
Where's Waldo?
The Wish Giver
The Witches
Women in Love
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies
A Wrinkle in Time
PS: Thank you, Judy Blume, for being so awesome as to write books that are real enough for people to think that kids shouldn't be reading them. God, that irks me so much to think that anyone wouldn't want their kids reading such good books.
sheikah, mostly because I think it's hilarious that some of these are banned. Obviously there have been lots of people out there who think that others are too ignorant to discern between real life and fiction: or shouldn't learn about reality. I should have more of these read, really.1984
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alice series
All the King's Men
Always Running
American Psycho
An American Tragedy
The Anarchist Cookbook
Anastasia Again!
And Tango Makes Three
Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging
Annie on my Mind
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (This is banned? Seriously? -Obviously teaching girl's about themselves is WRONG, wrong!)
Arming America
Arizona Kid
As I Lay Dying
Asking About Sex and Growing Up
Athletic Shorts
Beloved
Black Boy
Bless Me, Ultima
Blood and Chocolate
Blubber
The Bluest Eye
The Boy Who Lost His Face
Boys and Sex
Brave New World
Bridge to Terabithia
Bumps in the Night
The Call of the Wild
Captain Underpants
Carrie (...this almost makes me facepalm as much as Harry Potter does)
The Catcher in the Rye
Catch-22
Cat's Cradle
The Chocolate War
Christine
A Clockwork Orange
The Color Purple
Crazy Lady
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat
Cujo
Curses, Hexes and Spells
Cut
Daddy's Roommate
A Day No Pigs Would Die
The Dead Zone
Deenie
Detour for Emmy
The Drowning of Stephan Jones
Earth's Children (series)
The Exorcist
The Face on the Milk Carton
Fade
Fallen Angels
Family Secrets
A Farewell to Arms
Final Exit
Flowers for Algernon
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Forever
Girls and Sex
The Giver
Go Ask Alice
Go Tell it on the Mountain
The Goats
Gone with the Wind
Goosebumps (series) (Erin says LOL to this!)
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Guess What?
Halloween ABC
The Handmaid's Tale
Harry Potter (series)
Heart of Darkness
Heather has Two Mommies
The House of the Spirits
How to Eat Fried Worms
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
In Cold Blood
In the Night Kitchen
Invisible Man
It's Perfectly Normal
It's So Amazing
Jack
James and the Giant Peach
Jay's Journal
Julie of the Wolves
Jump Ship to Freedom
Jumper
The Jungle
Kaffir Boy
Killing Mr. Griffin
Lady Chatterly's Lover
A Light in the Attic
Little Black Sambo
Lolita
Lord of the Flies
Mommy Laid an Egg
My Brother Sam is Dead
The Naked and the Dead
Naked Lunch
Native Son
The New Joy of Gay Sex
Of Mice and Men
On My Honor
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ordinary People
The Outsiders
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Pillars of Earth
The Pigman
Private Parts
Rabbit, Run
Running Loose
The Satanic Verses
Scary Stories (series) (That series for kids...with the mildly spooky pictures on the covers? Anyone my age read those...I LOVED them as kid.)
A Separate Peace
Sex
Sex Education
Slaughterhouse-Five
The Sledding Hill
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy (2/3 at the moment...I can understand why someone wouldn't want their kids reading this, but adults are free to do what they want? o.O)
Song of Solomon (novel)
Sons and Lovers
The Stupids (series)
Summer of my German Soldier
The Sun Also Rises
That Was Then, This Is Now
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Tiger Eyes
To Kill a Mockingbird
Tropic of Cancer
Ulysses
View from the Cherry Tree
We All Fall Down
Whale Talk
What my Mother Doesn't Know
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons
What's Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters
Where Did I Come From?
Where's Waldo?
The Wish Giver
The Witches
Women in Love
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women's Fantasies
A Wrinkle in Time
PS: Thank you, Judy Blume, for being so awesome as to write books that are real enough for people to think that kids shouldn't be reading them. God, that irks me so much to think that anyone wouldn't want their kids reading such good books.
