Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Have a Bodacious Banned Book Week!
Over on her blog, banned book author Lisa Samson has a link to the 100 frequentliest banned books as well as which of those books she's read.
Check it out.
BTW: Here's my list from the Top 100
and a couple close-but-no-cigars:
Check it out.
BTW: Here's my list from the Top 100
- 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
77. Carrie by Stephen King
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
88. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
and a couple close-but-no-cigars:
- 62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
(judging from the surreptitiousness with which this book was passed around in the 4th grade, I'd say I've read the parts that got it banned, just not the rest of the book)
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
(I haven't read this book, but when I was a kid a group of people from church would congregate at Sambo's for pancakes once a month or so -- mmmmm ... tiger butter)
Mikesell
