Let's take a trip down the American Library Association's 100 most frequently
challenged books 1900 - 2000!!!
Whee!
- Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin
Schwartz
- Daddy�s Roommate by Michael
Willhoite
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by
Maya Angelou - I know, EVERYONE in the whole world has read this. But I
went to public school, so give me a break
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain- this book almost killed me. I'm pretty sure that I read some
sort of abridged version of it when I was 12. But then I was assigned to
read it the summer before my freshman year of college. And even though
the book has only 65 pages (or something like that), I didn't do it. So
we spent all of fall semester talking 'bout Huck. And I still didn't
read it. Take that Michigan State! You can't control my mind!!!!
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck -
Worst damn book I ever read. We had to read it out loud in high school,
but we couldn't swear so we'd say "gosh darn it, Lenny, you killed the
kittens!".
- Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
- Leo and I went to a book store on the night of the last Potter release.
To this day, I can still here the stupid talking hat they had that said, in a
really slow and dippy voice, something like "you can go to grippendorp" or
something like that. Anyway, you've never experienced terror until you
go to a Barnes and Noble at 10 pm on a Friday and it's chock full of ten year
olds in pointy black hats and fake glasses.
- Forever by Judy Blume
- Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine
Paterson - read it as a kid. Don't remember one thing about it (except
the name).
- Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
- Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
- My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln
Collier and Christopher Collier
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D.
Salinger - tried to read it on my own. Gave up on page 23.
- The Giver by Lois Lowry
- It�s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
- Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
- A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker -
LOVED this book.
- Sex by Madonna - This SHOULD be
banned.
- Earth�s Children (Series) by Jean M.
Auel - Again, anything by that clan of the cave bear woman can't be that good.
- The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine
Paterson
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L�Engle
- Wasn't that the book that was made into the movie that Christopher Reeve
starred in (and was filmed on Mackinaw Island)?
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
- In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
- The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard -
I know nothing about this but the title. It should be banned.
- The Witches by Roald Dahl
- The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
- Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
- The Goats by Brock Cole
- Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane - I have
read this book. I can never hear about kaffir lime leaves without
thinking about it.
- Blubber by Judy Blume - this book
rocked my 12 year old world.
- Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
- Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
- We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
- Final Exit by Derek Humphry
- The Handmaid�s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- LOVED the book, didn't so much love the movie
- Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison -
Strangely enough, this is one of my favorite books of all time. Strange
because I don't think that anyone would pick this as one of my favorite books.
- What�s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A
Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras - This
was all I ever learned about puberty.
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee -
Once again, tried to read it for my own good and gave up.
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
- The Pigman by Paul Zindel
- Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
- Deenie by Judy Blume
- Flowers for Algernon
by Daniel Keyes -
one of the few cases of a movie actually being better than the book.
Can't you still picture the motor cycle drive / acid trip scene?
- Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
- The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
- Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin
Schwartz
- A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein - I
used to memorize these poems
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure
(Anne Rice)
- Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna
Cole
- Cujo by Stephen King
- James and the Giant Peach by Roald
Dahl - this book, along with the Little Prince, cemented in me the beleief
that all Europeans are very, very weird but in a likable way.
- The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
- Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
- Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
- What�s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A
Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
- Are You There, God? It�s Me, Margaret by
Judy Blume - Required reading for the 12 year old girl. My mom didn't
bake me a cake in celebration of menstruation, but maybe she just wasn't as
cool as Margaret's.
- Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
- Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
- Fade by Robert Cormier
- Guess What? by Mem Fox
- The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
- The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline
Cooney
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut -
I listened to this as a book on tape while on an 8 hour drive. It was one of
the few books that I picked for my self improvement projects that I actually
finished.
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding -
It struck an even truer chord with me after I spent a year nannying two
boys...
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women�s
Fantasies by Nancy Friday
- Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
- Jack by A.M. Homes
- Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
- Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
- On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
- Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
- Family Secrets by Norma Klein
- Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
- The Dead Zone by Stephen King
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison -
Once again, loved the book. But not as much as the Bluest Eye.
- Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
- Private Parts by Howard Stern - I very much
dislike Howard Stern. You could put an obnoxious 12 year old on the air
and the kid would come up with better stuff than Howard.
- Where�s Waldo? by Martin Hanford - Huh? The
picture book where you have to find the guy in the beanie? Who could
POSSIBLY have a problem with that?
- Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
- Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
- Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
- Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
- Sex Education by Jenny Davis
- The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
- Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
- How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas
Rockwell - Sounds familiar...
- View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis
Roberts
- The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
- The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
- Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier
and Christopher Collier
I don't really get why some things are on there and others aren't. Like
the Odyssey, for example. My mom read it to me when I was 8 or so and it
scared the bejesus out of me. Why James and the Giant Peach but not the
Little Prince (L.P. is way more messed up than 'Peach)? How on earth could
anyone object to Where's Waldo? I don't even think that book has words.
I understand why some of those books are "challenged", like the Daddy has a
Roomate one. But some of the others...I just don't get it.
I also think it's funny that, with the exception of maybe 5 books, all of the
ones that I've read came from the public school library. We were forced to
read a lot of them. Wish we had the internet then; I could have staged a
protest or something.
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