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jenk ([personal profile] jenk) wrote2002-09-28 12:21 pm

banned books list

Of the list of Top 100 'challenged' books that's going around, I have read the following:
(books in bold I own)
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling

Forever by Judy Blume

Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris

Sex by Madonna

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Go Ask Alice by Anonymous

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton

Deenie by Judy Blume

A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

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

Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle

Carrie by Stephen King

Family Secrets by Norma Klein

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Some of these I haven't read since high school, like Summer of My German Soldier or Tom Sawyer (which wasn't assigned, I chose to read it years before I was assigned Huck Finn). Others are much more recent, like Harry Potter.