It's banned books week!!

HOORAY!!

I like reading banned books, simply because I want to see what made someone petition against this book, WHY they think it's so horrible.
Here's a list I found:

Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume This I don't get. It's Judy Blume people!!!
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King This I get. Kind of. It's Stephen King-it's a HORROR. Srsly!!
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen This I get too. Look at the title! Banned for the contents.
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck This I kind of get. It IS Steinbeck, and in his era his writing was extreme.
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume Again, Judy Blume! I guess she kinda has The Steinbeck Problem.
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling These I TOTALLY get. Late nineties to early Y2K's it was banned because "You simply have no imagination Mr. Harris" it was a fantasy book, which had taken over for being most challenged in the 90s from works considered "explicit and harsh" like Blume's work.
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Twain was often banned because of the language he used.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl Dahl was banned quite often as well, because his stories were too "fantastic" and the contents considered "evil"
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm WHAT?!?!
Lord of the Flies by William Golding So, Golding I get, especially this one, because it showed truthful human behavior and no one wanted to hear of it. But really!
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz Schwartz is not even remotely terrifying. We read that crap in fourth grade and laughed at it. I mean, c'mon.
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Again, it's Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz .........
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz ................................................
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier I actually don't know why this is banned. It was an awful book, I thought. Like flour and water bread-tasteless and all it does is fill you up. In this case with mush.
The Color Purple by Alice Walker Ha. I read this when I was about 14 I think. I was like O.O most of the time. But it's banning I understand because of language and sexual content, to name a few.
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Huh? Had to look this up. At the time of it's publication (ish) TKaM was banned for it's harsh language.
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth



I can think of a few more that were banned or at least challenged or I'm sure would have been if they had made an HP sweep of popularity. For one, Alice in Wonderland was banned because for one, animals were talking, for two it was ludicrous. So, The Looking Glass Wars trilogy should have been, too right? Wrong. TLGW has never been banned or even challenged to my knowledge. It's also a fantastic series by Frank Beddor. I like them a LOT. I don't see how Twifaillight hasn't had more bans other than a few school districts. Surprisingly, even though the first novel was published in '91, Diana Gabaldon (you can read her blog here ) has never been banned that I can find.
I would probably have fits of hysteria (like I'm about to after finding DG's blog and reading a post that made me want to cry) if anything I wrote were banned. And then I would throw a party.