Banned and Challenged Books by Title

Courtesy of The Forbidden Library.I’ve marked off the ones I’ve read. It’s more than I thought. I challenge all my readers to read at least one book from this list in 2009. Post in the comments which one you choose!

1. 1984 , George Orwell
2. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer , Mark Twain
3. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland , Lewis Caroll
4. Analects , Confucious
5. Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl , Anne Frank
6. Arabian Nights or 1,001 Nights , Anonymous
7. Beloved , Toni Morrison
8. The Bible
9. Brave New World , Aldous Huxley
10. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee , Dee Brown
11. The Call of the Wild , Jack London
12. Canterbury Tales , Geoffrey Chaucer
13. Catcher in the Rye , JD Salinger
14. The Celluloid Closet , Vito Russo
15. Charlie & The Chocolate Factory , Roald Dahl
16. Clan of the Cave Bear , Jean Auel
17. The Color Purple , Alice Walker
18. The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm , Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
19. Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World Systems , Galilei Galileo
20. Different Seasons , Stephen King
21. A Doll’s House , Henrik Ibsen
22. Don Quixote , Saavedra Miguel de Cervantes
23. Earth Science
24. The Egypt Game , Zilpha Keatley Snyder
25. Fahrenheit 451 , Ray Bradbury
26. The Figure in the Shadows , John Bellairs
27. Gone With the Wind , Margaret Mitchell
28. Grapes of Wrath , John Steinbeck
29. The Graphic Work of M.C. Escher , M.C. Escher
30. Grendel , John C Gardner
31. Gulliver’s Travels , Jonathan Swift
32. Hamlet , William Shakespeare
33. The Happy Prince & Other Stories , Oscar Wilde
34. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , Maya Angelou
35. It , Stephen King
36. James and the Giant Peach , Roald Dahl
37. King Lear, William Shakespeare
38. The Koran
39. Le Morte D’Arthur , Sir Thomas Malory
40. The Life and Times of Renoir , Janice Anderson
41. A Light in the Attic , Shel Silverstein
42. The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe , C.S. Lewis
43. Little House in the Big Woods , Laura Ingalls Wilder
44. Little House on the Prairie , Laura Ingalls Wilder
45. The Lorax , Dr. Seuss
46. The Lords of Discipline , Pat Conroy
47. The Martian Chronicles , Ray Bradbury
48. My Friend Flicka , Mary O’Hara
49. The Odyssey , Homer
50. On the Origin of the Species , Charles Darwin
51. Paradise Lost , John Milton
52. Raisin in the Sun , Lorraine Hansberry
53. The Rolling Stone , Jim Miller
54. The Satanic Verses , Salman Rushdie
55. Slaughterhousep–Five , Kurt Vonnegut
56. Song of Solomon , Toni Morrison
57. The Stand , Stephen King
58. The Talmud
59. To Kill a Mockingbird , Harper Lee
60. Tom Jones , Henry Fielding
61. Twelfth Night , William Shakespeare
62. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
63. Vasilissa the Beautiful: Russian Fairy Tales
64. Welcome to the Monkey House , Kurt Vonnegut
65. Where the Sidewalk Ends , Shel Silverstein
66. Where’s Waldo? , Martin Hanford
67. The Witches of Worm , Zilpha Keatley Snyder
68. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle
69. Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings , D.T. Suzuki

So that’s 29 out of 69. 40 more books yet to read. My goal is to read Paradise Lost this year. How many have you read?