Banned Book Survey
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List of the top 110 banned books:
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (even though I know I'll hate it, lol . . . )
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (AHHHHHHH!!!)
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (^_^)
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (seen the movie, though . . . lol, though that doesn't count . . . )
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchel
#43 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (when I decide to lose weight by not eating meat, I'll read this, lol . . . )
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (I haven't read it, but I will have by the end of the semester ^_^ lol . . . )
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys (hmm . . . my dad read this . . . and I always liked his name, pronounced PEEPS!!!-- and, so, now, we always call the little Spring Peepers frogs that end up in our garden and yard Samuel Pepys . . . never knew his diary was that great, lol . . . ha ha, lol, notice how I equate "banned-nes" with "good-ness"? Lol . . . I WANT TO BE BANNED!!!
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (I forget why I didn't finish this one . . . it was good . . . I think it was because Tory was reading it and I was just yoinking it from her, that was it . . . )
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (I haven't read much of Kant; I've been told he would intrigue me)
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (oh, dear God . . . I know it was banned, but all this book talked about was being cold . . . )
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Oh, 7th grade English . . . )
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau (Roussseau wrote something called "Confessions?" How very teenage of him, lol . . . )
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (This is another one I know I'm going to hate, right off the bat, lol . . . Hobbes is so . . . pessimistic . . . and, coming from me, that's saying something!)
#69 The Talmud (it includes passages of the first five chapters of the Old Testament, so, having read substantial portions of the first five chapters of the Old Testament, I have henceforth logically read portions of The Talmud, right?)
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau (Ha ha, just a couple of weeks ago, for Introduction to Political Theory II class, actually. Right now Keith is borrowing it to potentially use for his research paper, lol . . . )
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (OMG BOOK MADE ME CRY!!! Why was this banned? It was sad . . . but why banned?)
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (No. I refuse to read this book. Silly man stole my title for my book-- and I don't think his even follow the pattern of a tragedy like mine does! *Sniff* Sad day . . . you can only reuse books' titles when they're not very famous books . . . lol . . . )
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (I want to know what made that man tick . . . like is it craziness or delusion or actual philosophy? I'm very curious . . . )
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles (I really liked this book ^_^ it's often listed as one of my favorites ^_^)
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (WTF??? Now, I thought banning Bridge to Teribithia was weird . . . !!!)
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (This is on my shelf at my house, and my dad saw me reading the back of it because I had never heard of it, and he was like, "Um, don't read that . . . it's kind of very weird." So, now, of course, I want to read it, lol . . . )
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu (This is supposed to be a revolutionary sort of book ^_^)
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (WHY DOES EVERYONE FORGET THE BIG WOODS??? THE BIG WOODS CAME FIRST!!! AND WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE REST OF THE SERIES??? I <3ED THEM, SO MUCH!!!)
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (I adored Demien; I really should read more of his works ^_^)
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Holy shit, that book sucked. Okay, I'll give you that it was an interesting format, but Faulkner needs to develop some fucking faith in humankind, for God's sake . . . I actually ranted about this today in English class, believe it or not . . . just about the same way I ranted about Gatsby, lol . . . )
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (Tory read it for English class, and I yoinked it and read part of it)
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Once again with the WTF . . . um . . . I had a stuffed Sylvester toy, actually, to tell you the truth . . . he turned into a rock, like in the book, when you pulled this pouch out of the back of him, like a giant sleeping bag, lol . . . was that why this was banned? He transformed, and "magically," and therefore like was a sinning donkey against God? Man, people fucking confuse me . . . )
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (Oh, Freud . . . )
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines (Tory read this, and I don't believe liked it very much. I don't desire to read it very much so)
#102 Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (Hey, they mention this book in "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel, lol . . . )
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
List of the top 110 banned books:
#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (even though I know I'll hate it, lol . . . )
#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (AHHHHHHH!!!)
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (^_^)
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (seen the movie, though . . . lol, though that doesn't count . . . )
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchel
#43 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (when I decide to lose weight by not eating meat, I'll read this, lol . . . )
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx (I haven't read it, but I will have by the end of the semester ^_^ lol . . . )
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys (hmm . . . my dad read this . . . and I always liked his name, pronounced PEEPS!!!-- and, so, now, we always call the little Spring Peepers frogs that end up in our garden and yard Samuel Pepys . . . never knew his diary was that great, lol . . . ha ha, lol, notice how I equate "banned-nes" with "good-ness"? Lol . . . I WANT TO BE BANNED!!!
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (I forget why I didn't finish this one . . . it was good . . . I think it was because Tory was reading it and I was just yoinking it from her, that was it . . . )
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (I haven't read much of Kant; I've been told he would intrigue me)
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (oh, dear God . . . I know it was banned, but all this book talked about was being cold . . . )
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Oh, 7th grade English . . . )
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau (Roussseau wrote something called "Confessions?" How very teenage of him, lol . . . )
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes (This is another one I know I'm going to hate, right off the bat, lol . . . Hobbes is so . . . pessimistic . . . and, coming from me, that's saying something!)
#69 The Talmud (it includes passages of the first five chapters of the Old Testament, so, having read substantial portions of the first five chapters of the Old Testament, I have henceforth logically read portions of The Talmud, right?)
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau (Ha ha, just a couple of weeks ago, for Introduction to Political Theory II class, actually. Right now Keith is borrowing it to potentially use for his research paper, lol . . . )
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson (OMG BOOK MADE ME CRY!!! Why was this banned? It was sad . . . but why banned?)
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (No. I refuse to read this book. Silly man stole my title for my book-- and I don't think his even follow the pattern of a tragedy like mine does! *Sniff* Sad day . . . you can only reuse books' titles when they're not very famous books . . . lol . . . )
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (I want to know what made that man tick . . . like is it craziness or delusion or actual philosophy? I'm very curious . . . )
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles (I really liked this book ^_^ it's often listed as one of my favorites ^_^)
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (WTF??? Now, I thought banning Bridge to Teribithia was weird . . . !!!)
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (This is on my shelf at my house, and my dad saw me reading the back of it because I had never heard of it, and he was like, "Um, don't read that . . . it's kind of very weird." So, now, of course, I want to read it, lol . . . )
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu (This is supposed to be a revolutionary sort of book ^_^)
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (WHY DOES EVERYONE FORGET THE BIG WOODS??? THE BIG WOODS CAME FIRST!!! AND WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE REST OF THE SERIES??? I <3ED THEM, SO MUCH!!!)
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse (I adored Demien; I really should read more of his works ^_^)
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Holy shit, that book sucked. Okay, I'll give you that it was an interesting format, but Faulkner needs to develop some fucking faith in humankind, for God's sake . . . I actually ranted about this today in English class, believe it or not . . . just about the same way I ranted about Gatsby, lol . . . )
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (Tory read it for English class, and I yoinked it and read part of it)
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig (Once again with the WTF . . . um . . . I had a stuffed Sylvester toy, actually, to tell you the truth . . . he turned into a rock, like in the book, when you pulled this pouch out of the back of him, like a giant sleeping bag, lol . . . was that why this was banned? He transformed, and "magically," and therefore like was a sinning donkey against God? Man, people fucking confuse me . . . )
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud (Oh, Freud . . . )
#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines (Tory read this, and I don't believe liked it very much. I don't desire to read it very much so)
#102 Emile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (Hey, they mention this book in "We Didn't Start The Fire" by Billy Joel, lol . . . )
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
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Date: 2006-03-04 12:08 am (UTC)*mutter about censorship*
You know, I still don't understand how Little House on the Parie got banned. OR Julie and the wolves or whatever its called.
WTF
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Date: 2006-03-04 12:23 am (UTC)Maybe they were too much about the pioneering spirit, and the Communists banned it, and they personified animals too much, and the hardcore Christians were like THEY DON'T HAVE SOULS!!! Lol . . .
This is of all books censored of all time, lol . . . not just America ^_^ Thank God . . . lol . . .
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Date: 2006-03-04 02:24 pm (UTC)I was expecting like, graphic scenes with gross meat.
But it really didn't have any. It is mostly about like, oppression for the workers, and how their children drown in the streets and stuff.
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Date: 2006-03-04 03:40 pm (UTC)It's one of my favorites. You go right back and you underline it now. Yeah. That's right. NOW.