The Glade 4.0

Banned Books week-- which of the top 100 have you read?


1. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
2. Alice series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3. The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier
4. And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
5. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
7. Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz
8. His Dark Materials (series), by Philip Pullman
9. ttyl; ttfn; l8r g8r (series), by Myracle, Lauren
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
11. Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers
12. It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
13. Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
15. The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
16. Forever, by Judy Blume
17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
18. Go Ask Alice, by Anonymous
19. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
20. King and King, by Linda de Haan
21. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
22. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily von Ziegesar
23. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
24. In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
25. Killing Mr. Griffen, by Lois Duncan
26. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
27. My Brother Sam Is Dead, by James Lincoln Collier
28. Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
29. The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney
30. We All Fall Down, by Robert Cormier
31. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
32. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
33. Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson
34. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
35. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging, by Louise Rennison
36. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
37. It’s So Amazing, by Robie Harris
38. Arming America, by Michael Bellasiles
39. Kaffir Boy, by Mark Mathabane
40. Life is Funny, by E.R. Frank
41. Whale Talk, by Chris Crutcher
42. The Fighting Ground, by Avi
43. Blubber, by Judy Blume
44. Athletic Shorts, by Chris Crutcher
45. Crazy Lady, by Jane Leslie Conly
46. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
47. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, by George Beard
48. Rainbow Boys, by Alex Sanchez
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
50. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
51. Daughters of Eve, by Lois Duncan
52. The Great Gilly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson
53. You Hear Me?, by Betsy Franco
54. The Facts Speak for Themselves, by Brock Cole
55. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green
56. When Dad Killed Mom, by Julius Lester
57. Blood and Chocolate, by Annette Curtis Klause
58. Fat Kid Rules the World, by K.L. Going
59. Olive’s Ocean, by Kevin Henkes
60. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
61. Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
62. The Stupids (series), by Harry Allard
63. The Terrorist, by Caroline B. Cooney
64. Mick Harte Was Here, by Barbara Park
65. The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
66. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, by Mildred Taylor
67. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
68. Always Running, by Luis Rodriguez
69. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
70. Harris and Me, by Gary Paulsen
71. Junie B. Jones (series), by Barbara Park
72. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
73. What’s Happening to My Body Book, by Lynda Madaras
74. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold
75. Anastasia (series), by Lois Lowry
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
77. Crazy: A Novel, by Benjamin Lebert
78. The Joy of Gay Sex, by Dr. Charles Silverstein
79. The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss
80. A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
81. Black Boy, by Richard Wright
82. Deal With It!, by Esther Drill
83. Detour for Emmy, by Marilyn Reynolds
84. So Far From the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Watkins
85. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher
86. Cut, by Patricia McCormick
87. Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
88. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
89. Friday Night Lights, by H.G. Bissenger
90. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle
91. Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
92. The Boy Who Lost His Face, by Louis Sachar
93. Bumps in the Night, by Harry Allard
94. Goosebumps (series), by R.L. Stine
95. Shade’s Children, by Garth Nix
96. Grendel, by John Gardner
97. The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende
98. I Saw Esau, by Iona Opte
99. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume
100. America: A Novel, by E.R. Frank

Harry Potter series? #1?

Who the **** would ban those?

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Holy shitsnacks!

Banned by who? Or just a compilation of books based upon the number of "banned" lists from around the world?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-commonly_challenged_books_in_the_United_States

It's the 100 most banned books from that list.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

My kid used to read the Captain Underpants books when she was 9 or 10. I rememebr thinking it was pretty funny, although I did worry that some uptight jackwad at her school would cause trouble over it. Thankfully that never happened.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I've read 10 of those. Some of the choices in that list are pretty weird...

Hmph. I used to score higher on that list until they started adding stupid things like Harry Potter and knocking off things like Lord of the Flies and Metamorphosis.

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The religious crackpots only crusade to ban books that people are reading. They've already succeeded in getting people to stop reading the books you mentioned.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Half-Price books has all of these on sale.. =)

I read a lot of Goosebumps when I was in elementary school. Aside from that, I can honestly say I've never read any other book on that list. Except maybe My Brother Sam is Dead. I remember reading a book called My Brother Sam(it was a story about stuff in the American Revolution) in the 7th grade(maybe 8th, I don't remember), but it was assigned reading in my English class.

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"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

Some of the books on that list (Catcher in the Rye, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockinbird for example) are, or used to be, standard required reading by at least the 7th grade, and definitely by the time you were in college.

That would be the book. It has some PG-13 to R language in I think.

I'm generally for local standards for decently and content, especially content directed at minors. They aren't a substitute for being an informed and involved parent though.

Most of those I don't have any idea what they are about. Those that I've read, I get while someone might want to ban them even if I don't always agree.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Which I always found hilarious since 2 of the 3 examples you gave suck moose balls, and that's a generous ratio for most books that are standard school fare.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Exactly which of those books suck moose balls?

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Of the 3 mentioned, Catcher and Of Mice and Men both suck - horribly.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

This is important information.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I've watched the movie adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, actually. I watched it on TV when I was playing The Darkness(in the game. The entire movie.) Does that count?

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Los Angeles Kings 2014 Stanley Cup Champions

"I love this **** team right here."
-Jonathan Quick

I love the fact that Fahrenheit 451 is on a banned books list.

Also love how we give Nazi Germany a hard time for the suppression of literature, and yet . . .

The difference is we don't actually suppress any of those books on a federal (or probably even state) Level. I'm for the debate about the subject and the appropriate parties saying we don't want that in our city/local school district/private school library.

However the irony of banning a book on book burning was not lost on me.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Why are there so many Judy Bloom books on that list? That's just weird.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

If you take a good long look, you'll find that a lot of the books on that list are intended for kids. Those are precisely the people that the aforementioned religious wackjobs don't want reading books that haven't been pastor-approved.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

Nevermind. My vague recollections of my sister's childhood library had me confusing Judy Blume with someone else. Glancing at her wiki article, I guess I can see why. Apparently, although both socially conservative people, my parents were not quite so knee jerk, because I'm fairly sure my sister read pretty much everything she had published as of about 1989 or so.

In other news, she's looking pretty good for 72.

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Sail forth! steer for the deep waters only!
Reckless, O soul, exploring, I with thee, and thou with me;
For we are bound where mariner has not yet dared to go,
And we will risk the ship, ourselves and all.

1. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
5. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou (freshman English class...)
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
21. To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
26. Beloved, by Toni Morrison (freshman English - I didn't really like it)
28. Bridge To Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
36. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey (junior high English)
55. Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green (junior high English)
67. A Time to Kill, by John Grisham
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving
81. Black Boy, by Richard Wright (freshman English again)
88. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood

And didn't finish because it sucked big monkey balls...
19. Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger

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When he's underwater does he get wet? Or does the water get him instead?

What's with the panning of Catcher in the Rye? Did you know it had booze and hookers?

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Booze and hookers aren't enough to salvage a train wreck of that magnitude.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."