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Curmudgeoness

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1. I am less interested in the books on banned lists

Reply to JitterbugPerfume (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2013, 06:03 PM

Sep 2013

as I am in the reasons why these books get on the list.

This is a list of banned and challenged classics by the American Library Association and there are few that I can come up with the reason:

http://www.ala.org/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/classics

Here are the top books on the list---WTF:

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell

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It is Banned Book week! [View all] JitterbugPerfume Sep 2013 OP

I am less interested in the books on banned lists Curmudgeoness Sep 2013 #1

Ralph Elison's Invisible Man, recently banned in N.C. Agnosticsherbet Sep 2013 #2

As I Lay Dying, by Faulkner Tindalos Sep 2013 #3

I tried to reread The Rosy Crucifixion pscot Sep 2013 #4

Montaigne was banned in France pscot Sep 2013 #5

Does this mean *I* get to ban a book? SheilaT Sep 2013 #6

I took a class on Obscene Literature in college jeffrey_pdx Sep 2013 #7