Since everyone else is doing it...
Sep. 29th, 2002 10:55 pm* = Recommended
** = WTF? Why is this banned? (In rereading the list, it looks like most should be **'ed.)
Have read:
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck *
Forever by Judy Blume
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
Sex by Madonna
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel **
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane (I think I read this one, not sure.)
Blubber by Judy Blume
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George * **
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes * **
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughter
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein * **
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Cujo by Stephen King
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Lord of the Flies by William Golding *
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday * (Old, but a fun read!)
Carrie by Stephen King
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford ** ** **
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Would like to read:
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
Curious about:
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
Native Son by Richard Wright
(http://www.ala.org/bbooks/top100bannedbooks.html)
From what I can tell, anything that represents the world as anything but one where every single person gets along with each other, doesn't question god or believe in anything but the One True God(tm), or even thinks about sex is banned... Sometimes the world (or rather, the US) scares me.