Thursday Thirteen: 13 Banned Books I've Read
September 30, 2010
In honour of Banned Books Week, here's a list of thirteen books I've read over my lifetime which have, at some point, been challenged or banned from classrooms and/or school libraries:
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L’Engle
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
- Speakby Laurie Halse Anderson
Lists of Frequently Challenged Books can be found here. Check it out! You may be surprised by some of the books on those lists - I know I was!