{"id":405,"date":"2005-10-19T15:51:10","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T23:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-10-23T22:28:13","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T06:28:13","slug":"top-110-banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprilgem.com\/log\/?p=405","title":{"rendered":"Top 110 Banned Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Read more. Convince others to read some.<\/p>\n

#1 The Bible<\/em>
\n#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain<\/strong>
\n#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes<\/strong>
\n#4 The Koran
\n#5 Arabian Nights<\/em> (just got this as a gift from H.E.)
\n#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain<\/strong>
\n#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift<\/strong>
\n#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer<\/em>
\n#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/strong>
\n#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman<\/em>
\n#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli<\/strong>
\n#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/strong> (10\/7\/07)
\n#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank<\/strong>
\n#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert<\/strong> (3\/20\/2009)
\n#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens<\/strong>
\n#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo<\/em>
\n#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker<\/strong> (12\/15\/2007)
\n#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin<\/em>
\n#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding<\/strong> (7\/2\/2008)
\n#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne<\/em>
\n#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<\/strong>
\n#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
\n#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy<\/strong> (12\/27\/05)
\n#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin<\/em>
\n#25 Ulysses by James Joyce<\/em>
\n#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
\n#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell<\/strong>
\n#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell<\/strong>
\n#29 Candide by Voltaire
\n#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee<\/strong>
\n#31 Analects by Confucius
\n#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
\n#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck<\/strong>
\n#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway<\/strong>
\n#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
\n#36 Das Kapital by Karl Marx
\n#37 Les Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire
\n#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/strong> (8\/23\/07)
\n#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence<\/strong> (1\/8\/05)
\n#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<\/strong>
\n#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
\n#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell<\/strong> (12\/10\/2008)
\n#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair<\/strong>
\n#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
\n#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
\n#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding<\/strong>
\n#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
\n#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway<\/strong>
\n#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy<\/strong> (6\/19\/2009)
\n#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury<\/strong>
\n#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
\n#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
\n#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey<\/strong> (5\/19\/2008)
\n#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
\n#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller<\/strong> (06\/05\/07)
\n#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X<\/em>
\n#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
\n#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger<\/strong>
\n#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
\n#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
\n#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
\n#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
\n#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
\n#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
\n#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
\n#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
\n#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
\n#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
\n#69 The Talmud
\n#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
\n#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
\n#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence<\/strong> (12\/09\/2007)
\n#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
\n#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
\n#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
\n#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
\n#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
\n#78 Popol Vuh
\n#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
\n#80 Satyricon by Petronius
\n#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl<\/strong>
\n#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov<\/strong> (3\/13\/08)
\n#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright<\/strong> (09\/24\/06)
\n#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
\n#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut<\/strong> (8\/10\/2009)
\n#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
\n#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
\n#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/strong>
\n#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
\n#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
\n#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
\n#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
\n#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner<\/strong>
\n#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
\n#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
\n#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
\n#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud<\/strong>
\n#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
\n#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
\n#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess<\/strong> (5\/3\/2008)
\n#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
\n#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
\n#103 Nana by Emile Zola
\n#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
\n#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
\n#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
\n#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein<\/strong>
\n#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
\n#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
\n#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hm. Now I’m on a mission to read everything on this list. I already have some of these books, which have been sitting unread on my shelves. I’ll have to blow the dust off them when I get the chance.<\/p>\nShare this post:

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List of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Read more. Convince others to read some. #1 The Bible #2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain #3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes #4 The Koran #5 Arabian Nights (just got this as a gift from H.E.) #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…<\/p>\n

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