{"id":1801,"date":"2007-10-01T21:05:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T01:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1801"},"modified":"2008-09-27T23:12:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T03:12:54","slug":"banned-book-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1801","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Banned Book Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Go read something subversive.<\/p>\n

Here are the most frequently challenged books for 2006:<\/p>\n

1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
\n2. Gossip Girls series by Cecily Von Ziegesar
\n3, Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
\n4. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
\n5. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
\n6. Scary Stories \u009d series by Alvin Schwartz
\n7. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
\n8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
\n9. Beloved by Toni Morrison
\n10. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier<\/p>\n

Here are the most challenged books for the first half of this decade:<\/p>\n

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
\n“The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier
\nAlice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
\n“Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
\n“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou
\n“Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers
\n“It’s Perfectly Normal” by Robie Harris
\nScary Stories series by Alvin Schwartz
\nCaptain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
\n“Forever” by Judy Blume<\/p>\n

Me? I just finished catching up on an excellent comic series<\/a>, and am now reading some supernatural fiction and trying to figure out what else I want to be reading (aside from everything listed in the sidebar.)<\/p>\n

Here’s the list of the 100 most frequently challenged books 1990-2000. I’ve marked the books I’ve read in bold. Anyone else?
\n1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
\n2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
\n3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
\n4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
\n 5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
\n<\/strong> 6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
\n 7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
\n8. Forever by Judy Blume
\n<\/strong> 9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
\n10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
\n11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
\n12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
\n 13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
\n<\/strong> 14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
\n15. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
\n16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
\n17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
\n 18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
\n<\/strong> 19. Sex by Madonna
\n20. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
\n21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
\n 22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
\n<\/strong> 23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
\n24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
\n25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
\n26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
\n 27. The Witches by Roald Dahl<\/span>
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
\n29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
\n30. The Goats by Brock Cole
\n31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
\n 32. Blubber by Judy Blume<\/span>
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
\n34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
\n35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
\n36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
\n 37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood<\/span>
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
\n39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
\n40. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
\n41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
\n42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
\n43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
\n44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
\n45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
\n 46. Deenie by Judy Blume<\/span>
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
\n48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
\n49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
\n50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
\n 51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein<\/span>
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<\/span>
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)<\/span> (Actually, I read the first two books and got bored.)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
\n55. Cujo by Stephen King
\n 56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl<\/span>
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
\n58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
\n 59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest<\/span>
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
\n61. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
\n 62. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume<\/span>
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
\n64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
\n65. Fade by Robert Cormier
\n66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
\n67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
\n68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
\n 69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut<\/span>
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding<\/span>
71. Native Son by Richard Wright<\/span>
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
\n73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
\n74. Jack by A.M. Homes
\n75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
\n76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
\n77. Carrie by Stephen King
\n 78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume<\/span>
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
\n80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
\n81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
\n82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
\n83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
\n 84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain<\/span>
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
\n86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
\n87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
\n 88. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford<\/span>
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
\n 90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman<\/span>
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett<\/span>
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
\n93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
\n94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
\n95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
\n 96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell<\/span>
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
\n98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
\n99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
\n100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
\nThat’s an even 25%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s Banned Book Week. Go read something subversive. Here are the most frequently challenged books for 2006: 1. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell 2. Gossip Girls series by Cecily Von Ziegesar 3, Alice series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor 4. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","category-politics","category-religion-philosophy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-t3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}