{"id":5435,"date":"2009-09-29T08:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T12:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=5435"},"modified":"2009-10-04T20:25:38","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T00:25:38","slug":"read-a-banned-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/5435","title":{"rendered":"Read a Banned Book!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s banned books week again, the time when we recognize that individuals throughout the country attempt to stifle free thought and intellectual freedom by keeping books out of the hands of children.<\/p>\n

Here are the top 10 most challenged books of 2008<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
\n 2. His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
\n 3. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series), by Lauren Myracle
\n 4. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
\n 5. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
\n 6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
\n 7. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
\n 8. Uncle Bobby’s Wedding, by Sarah S. Brannen
\n 9. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
\n 10. Flashcards of My Life, by Charise Mericle Harper<\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\nOf the top 100 classic books, the following have been the target of banning<\/a>:<\/p>\n

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
\n2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
\n3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
\n4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
\n5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
\n6. Ulysses by James Joyce
\n7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
\n8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
\n9. 1984 by George Orwell
\n11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
\n12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
\n15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
\n16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
\n18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
\n19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
\n20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
\n21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
\n23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
\n24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
\n25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
\n26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
\n27. Native Son by Richard Wright
\n28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
\n29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
\n30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
\n33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
\n36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
\n38. All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
\n45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
\n48. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
\n49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
\n53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
\n55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
\n64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
\n66. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
\n67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
\n73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
\n75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
\n80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
\n84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
\n88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
\n97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Go read!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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