
Last years banned book week was quite the event – this year I’m going to have to be somewhat more subdued. I did have plans for many posts, but it hasn’t quite happened, so Banned Book Week 2015 will be a bit more laid back, but I am still going to post about some banned books!
Last year I started going through a list of books that I had drawn from the 2000-2009 Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books list. This year I’ll continue the process, looking at a few more of the books on the list. (Links to last years posts are still active, and new posts will link back to this page as well).
- Harry Potter (Series), by J.K. Rowling
- And Tango Makes Three, by Justic Richardson/Peter Parnell
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- His Dark Materials (series), by Phillip Pullman
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
- To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry
- In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak
- Beloved, by Toni Morrison
- Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
- The Face on the Milk Carton, by Caroline B. Cooney
- Blubber, by Judy Blume
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- The Great GIlly Hopkins, by Katherine Paterson
- Summer of My German Soldier, by Bette Green
- Draw Me A Star, by Eric Carle
- The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- Junie B. Jones (series), by Barbara Park
- Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
- The Upstairs Room, by Johanna Reiss
- Tiger Eyes, by Judy Blume
- A Wrinkle In Time, by Madeline L’Engle
- Julie of the Wolves, by Jean Craighead George
- Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
- Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume.
In addition (and some overlapping) with this list is the Top 10 Frequently Challenged Books of 2014:
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.
- Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi
- And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
- It’s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris
- Saga, by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
- A Stolen Life, by Jaycee Dugard
- Drama, by Raina Telgemeier
And the Top 10 Frequently Challenged and Banned YA Books of 2014-2015 (again, see some overlap?)
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
- Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi (Pantheon Books/Knopf Doubleday)
- The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston)
- The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini (Bloomsbury Publishing)
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky (MTV Books/Simon & Schuster)
- Drama, by Raina Telgemeier (Graphix/Scholastic)
- Chinese Handcuffs, by Chris Crutcher (Greenwillow Books/HarperCollins)
- The Giver, by Lois Lowry (HMH Books for Young Readers)
- The House on Mango Street, by Sandra Cisneros (Vintage/Knopf Doubleday)
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Looking for Alaska, by John Green (Dutton Books/Penguin Random House)
Are you doing anything for Banned Book Week this year? What Banned Books do you enjoy?
I kinda want to read/read again every book on these lists. Some of them baffle me on why they would be banned in the first place???
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I know, it’s pretty baffling on some of them!
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My all time favorite book that I have read about fifty times is a banned book survivor, To Kill a Mockingbird. Maybe I should reread it this week. I’ve begun thinking of it since I read Go Set a Watchman.
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Re-read it! I did last Banned Book week and it was pretty cool — first time I’d re-read it since middle school 🙂
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There’s some really good books on those lists 🙂 I just got Persepolis out of the library to read–it’s one of 3 graphic novels on the list for 2014.
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