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Kelly, I didn't know about this group until I saw your comment on my friends list. Since I decided to join, my answer to the poll would be a definite "yes". Right now I'm busy moving into a house I just bought (Yay for me!) and so won't be as active in this group as I'd like for a while. But after things have settled down, I look forward to spending the winter months reading (and also looking at seed catalogs for my new garden - finally!)
~Geri~
This is the coolest discussion I've ever come across in Goodreads! Thank you so much to all those who contributed the lists. Keep it up!
Hi, all,Participation in the book club has dwindled from little to just about none. I have been too sick to post new polls but no one read the previous books it appears. (I am now well enough to run it again.) I want to know if people still want to do the book club. If not, no big deal. I don't want to force anyone. Please vote here:
http://www.goodreads.com/poll/invite/260...
(and make a comment if you have one) for your reason.
Thanks so much,
Kelly
Hi Kelly,
you are welcome to use any or all of the books, it's up to you. It wasn't that much work i mostly just copy and pasted lists from other web sites. There are less books than you think as i did not go through the lists, i just posted them. I think Slaughterhouse Five is on all the lists. Hopefully there will be enough good books to last a little while.
Laura
Hi, Laura,Those are great suggestions. Thanks for all your research! Do you want me to add all of them to the list? Some books that are banned may not be that interesting to read. For example, I have no desire to read the Internet Girls or Gossip Girls series. I don't think they have a whole lot of redeeming value.
It's also a daunting task to go through each one and see if it's a children's book or adult book. You've listed a lot here! So this month I'm going to just use our existing list of books specifically recommended for the book club and fill up any gaps with ones from our regular bookshelves that are already sorted by age. (With a random number generator.) But please, do tell me which ones you want me to add to the list we vote on. If you want them all, I can do it. Really I can. :)
I'm not sure how two copies of Cuckoo's nest got up there. I removed one. Thanks for pointing that out!
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http://www.marshall.edu/library/bannedbo...Banned/Challenged Books of 2006-2007 - Title List
Abduction! by Peg Kehret
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens:]
Alice in Jeopardy by Ed McBain
America by E. R. Frank
And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Attack of the Mutant Underwear by Tom Birdseye
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernet J. Gaines
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
Baseball Saved Us by Ken Mochizuki
Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Blankets by Craig Thompson
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Heydayat
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan
Cassell Dictionary of Slang by Jonathon Green, ed.
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
Cuba by Sharon Gordon
Cuban Kids by George Ancona
The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Fat Kid Rules the World by K. L. Going
A Fisherman of the Inland Sea by Ursula K. LeGuin
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hiddent Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
Gilgamesh: A New English Translation by Stephen Mitchell
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Guy Book: An Owner's Manual by Mavis Jukes
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alverez
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Mya Angelou
I Saw Esau: The Schoolchild's pocket Book by Iona Archibald Opie and Peter Opie
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein and Edmund White
Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky, Peeky Spying by Barbara Chuck Park
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland
Learning Tree by Gordon Park
Lily's Ghost by Laura Ruby
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Manga: 60 Years of Japanese Comics by Paul Gravett
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman
More Scary Story to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother's Hero by Adrian Fogelin
The Notebook Girls by Julia Baskin, Lindsy Newman, Sophie Politt-Cohen, and Courtney Toombs
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
100 Greatest Tyrants by Andrew Langley
Our Family Tree: An Evolution Story by Lisa Westberg Peters
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
Real Girl/Real World: Tools for Finding Your True Self by Heather M. Gray and Samantha Philips
Reluctantly Alice by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Romiette and Julio by Sharon M. Draper and Adam Lowenbein
Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs
Sex Kittens and Horn Dawgs Fall in Love by Maryrose Wood
Slaughterhouse Five by Vurt Vonnegut
So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & the Poetry of a New Gerneration by Mark Elveld
The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
TTYL by Lauren Myracle
Vamos a Cuba [A Visit to Cuba:] by Alta Schreier
Vegan Virgin Valentine by Carolyn Mackler
The Veldt by Ray Bradbury
Voyage of the Basset by James C. Christensen, Renwick St. James, and Alan Dean Foster
Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher
What's Eating Gilbert Grape? by Peter Hedges
Wizardology: The Book of the Secrets of Merlin by Dugald Steer
Zero to Sixty: The Motorcycle Journey of a Lifetime by Gary Paulsen
http://www.queertheory.com/bookshop/book...Most Frequently Challenged Books (1990 - 1999)
Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Forever by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Giver by Lois Lowry
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Sex by Madonna
Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
The Witches by Roald Dahl
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
The Goats by Brock Cole
The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
Final Exit by Derek Humphry
Blubber by Judy Blume
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
Deenie by Judy Blume
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Cujo by Stephen King
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Fade by Robert Cormier
Guess What? by Mem Fox
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Native Son by Richard Wright
Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
Jack by A.M. Homes
Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
Family Secrets by Norma Klein
Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
Carrie by Stephen King
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
Private Parts by Howard Stern
Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
Sex Education by Jenny Davis
Jumper by Steven Gould
Christine by Stephen King
The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton
Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain
Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The top 10 most-frequently challenged books of 2008, as compiled by the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom, are:
1. "And Tango Makes Three" by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell (Anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint and unsuited to age group).
2. "His Dark Materials" trilogy by Philip Pullman (Political viewpoint, religious viewpoint and violence).
3. "TTYL," "TTFN," "L8R" and "G8R" ("Internet Girls" series) by Lauren Myracle (Offensive language, sexually explicit and unsuited to age group).
4. "Scary Stories" (series) by Alvin Schwartz (Occult/satanism, religious viewpoint and violence).
5. "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya (Occult/satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit and violence).
6. "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky (Drugs, homosexuality, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, suicide and unsuited to age group).
7. "Gossip Girl" (series) by Cecily von Ziegesar (Offensive language, sexually explicit and unsuited to age group).
8. "Uncle Bobby's Wedding" by Sarah S. Brannen (Homosexuality and unsuited to age group).
9. "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini (Offensive language, sexually explicit and unsuited to age group).
10. "Flashcards of My Life" by Charise Mericle Harper (Sexually explicit and unsuited to age group).
Came across this list on the net at http://www.adlerbooks.com/banned.html
Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
Hi Kelly, i think i should of had a closer look at the bookshelf before i posted, i seemed to have missed everything under the line, sorry.
Has the book club read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest twice because it is on the Read in Bookclub list twice?
Laura
The list of books from the book 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J. Karolides, Margaret Bald and Dawn B. Sova:-
LITERATURE SUPPRESSED ON POLITICAL GROUNDS
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
Animal Farm by George Orwell
Areopagitica by John Milton
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Burger's Daughter by Nadine Gordimer
Decent Interval by Frank Snepp
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
El Senor Presidente by Miguel Angel Asutrias
The Fugitive (Perburuan) by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Arthur R. Butz
I Am the Cheese by Robert Cormier
In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
Land of the Free: A History of the United States by John Hope Franklin, Ernest R. May and John W. Caughey
Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
1984 by George Orwell
Novel without a Name by Duong Thu Huong
Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong
The Prince (IL Principe) by Niccolo Machiavelli
The Rights of Man by Thomas Paine
Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, the Children's Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Spycatcher by Peter Wright
The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
United States-Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967 (The "Pentagon Papers") U.S. Department of Defense
LITERATURE SUPPRESSED ON RELIGIOUS GROUNDS
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
The Analects by Confucius
The Bible
The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution by Roger Williams
Children of the Alley by Naguib Mahfouz
Christianity Restored by Michael Servetus
Church: Charism and Power: Liberation Theology and the Institutional Church by Leonardo Boff
Concerning Heretics by Sebastian Castellio
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems by Galileo Galilei
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
The Guide of the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World by Nawal El Saadawi
Infallible? An Inquiry by Hans Kung
The Koran
Lajja (Shame) by Taslima Nasrin
The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis
The New Testament by William Tyndale, translator
Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds by Giordano Bruno
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Popol Vuh
The Red and the Black by Stendhal
Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Talmud
The Veil and the Male Elite by Fatima Mernissi
Zhuan Falun: The Complete Teachings of Falun Gong by Li Hongzhi
LITERATURE SUPPRESSED ON SEXUAL GROUNDS
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
The Arabian Nights, or the Thousand and One Nights by Sir Richard Burton, translator
The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) by Ovid
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Candide by Voltaire
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Forever by Judy Blume
Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor
The Goats by Brock Cole
The Group by Mary McCarthy
It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Sir Richard F. Burton and F.F. Arbuthnot, translators
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Memoirs of Hecate County by Edmund Wilson
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Outlaw Representation: Censorship and Homosexuality in Twentieth-Century American Art by Richard Meyer
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
Rabbit, Run by John Updike
Sanctuary by William Faulkner
Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller
Ulysses by James Joyce
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
LITERATURE SUPPRESSED ON SOCIAL GROUNDS
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Another Country by James Baldwin
Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Cujo by Stephen King
The Drowning of Stephan Jones by Bette Greene
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby, Jr.
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown
Naked Lunch by William Seward Burroughs
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The new polls are up. I've put an explanation of how I select the books in the discussion "General Book Club Business" so take a look. We really need more suggestions for adult books so recommend away!
Thanks, Laura, that is very helpful.If you check our bookshelves, you'll see we actually have divided it up. There is a general shelf that anyone can add books to. That's the one that comes up when you first click on "bookshelf." There is no checking to see that they have actually been banned or challenged.
On the left is a list of our smaller shelves. There's a shelf called "suggested for book group" which is the list I pull from for our monthly book. I keep it separate because someone may suggest a book in the main list that they think others should read but they've already read it and no one else has any interest in.
Feel free to suggest any book from the large list to be added to the small list. I look it up and if I can find any kind of reference to it being formally challenged or banned, I add it to the list.
There is also a tiny list called "read in book club" which is a list of the books we've already read and discussed here. (We've only had the book group component for a very short time.)
I'm also creating new shelves for adult and children's so that folks know where it would show up in our polls. Feel free to suggest any book be moved from one to the other.
Does that meet your needs? If not, let me know how I can reorganize to suit.
Thanks!
As i am new to this group and to banned books in general, i found myself doing what i normaly would do... look for a book on the subject. I found 1 book that i can order from my library called 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J. Karolides, when it arives i will list all the titles and authors for us.
I all so looked on Amazon and found some other books here is a list:
Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries by Herbert N. Foerstel
100 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature by Nicholas J. Karolides
Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds by Margaret Bald
Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds (Banned Books) by Dawn B. Sova
Literature Suppressed on Social Grounds (Banned Books) by Dawn B. Sova
Literature Suppressed on Political Grounds: Banned Books by Nicholas J. Karolides
I am not able to order these books from my library and have no money at the moment to buy them. I am hoping that someone else has better luck than me with their library.
With the lists of books from these books we should have a wonderful new bookshelf list to chose from. It would also help the club if the bookshelf was redone to include books that the group have read and a list of the new books we will be adding or update the list we already have.
Kelly wrote: "Thank you, William, for being understanding. I definitely kept it on the open reading list, though, and anyone, including you, is welcome to start a discussion about it in one of the other categori..."
Thanks Kelly.
The curious thing about Fe Fi FOE Comes is it doesn't just complain about the system ... it fixes it.
A review:
Amazon *****
Excellent near future Sci Fi Book, March 7, 2009
By Lord Lancaster (Lancashire) -
I really enjoyed this book. I am really into the Runic Nordic mythology type stuff and mingled with Sci Fi makes for an excellent read. I would love to see this sort of book actually come true.
Many similar reviews.
biLL
Thank you, William, for being understanding. I definitely kept it on the open reading list, though, and anyone, including you, is welcome to start a discussion about it in one of the other categories.
It makes me mad that people aren't allowed to criticize their governments. I may not agree with you on much, and I may argue with you on points I don't agree with, but I would defend to the death your right to say it. No system is perfect and without self-examination it will never improve.
Kelly wrote: "FYI, I have decided *not* to add William's book Fe Fi FOE Comes to our poll. When he mentioned it, I didn't realize it was his own book. I don't think it appropriate that people nomi..."
Only about a thousand people have read Fe Fi FOE Comes It is not popular enough to be banned by title. It is the material in the book which is banned by various states. The Department of State is very clear about which countries you cannot import anti-govt or anti-religious material. The material is in this vein.
Remember Melbourne writer Harry Nicolaides, 41, was sentenced to three years imprisonment for defaming the Royal Family of Thailand. He had pled guilty to the lèse majesté indictment that arose from a self-published 2005 novel, Verisimilitude, of which only 50 copies were printed, and just seven sold.
Besides you'll note from the information quoted from the book it mostly just makes the average person angry that their system is criticized.
That in no way sums up the story, but within Kelly's guidelines I would say Fe Fi FOE Comes is not what would go well in a discussion here. So let us not vote on reading that book.
I think that's fair ... I think Kelly's fair.
FYI, I have decided *not* to add William's book Fe Fi FOE Comes to our poll. When he mentioned it, I didn't realize it was his own book. I don't think it appropriate that people nominate their own books. (To be fair, he just mentioned it and didn't nominate it. I asked him if he wanted to nominate it and he said, "sure.") I also can't find any record of it being banned or challenged anywhere except from the author or the publisher. I can't even verify who this publisher is as this appears to be the only book they published. If someone wants to nominate it and knows it has actually been banned or challenged somewhere, we can add it back in. (I don't need proof, your word is good enough.)I think it's important we have guidelines for our book group and requiring that the book is known to be banned or challenged by someone other than the author, and that it is nominated by someone other than the author, is legitimate.
I wanted to make this decision public so people don't think it was because he and I have disagreed in this group. I would never remove a book from our list because I disagree with it. What a hypocrite that would make me!
If you disagree with this decision, please do speak up.
How about Baby Be-Bop as a YA book. It is about a gay boy coming to terms with being gay and try to find a way to tell his grandmother.
I am really intrigued by the controversy surrounding American Psycho so I'm going to add it to the list. http://journal.media-culture.org.au/0610...
I think it's important for us to note that many books are banned or challenged for reasons that aren't necessarily abhorrent to us. In fact, we may actually agree with the instigators' concerns, although hopefully we would not advocate banning. A friend loved the book and described it as a cultural satire of all things.
The book club part is brand new so none of the books on the list have been read yet and are therefore fair game. I think people would very much appreciate more information about why books were banned so go right ahead. I'm going to start a new book list that are the suggestions for us to read together. I think the other list is books people just added because they have been challenged or banned.
Oh, and would it be ok to edit those group books by adding to "Why This Book" something short about why it was banned? I'm starting to look up some familiar books and would like to pass the knowledge on, and that looks like a logical way.
Did the group actually read all of the books on the bookshelf? In some other groups it's unclear if some of the members' suggestion or their personal read books have been included, as opposed to the monthly discussion books read together. I just want to make sure I know know what's expected and don't offer repeats.
