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phobia2001

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 3:29 pm


THIS LIST IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION <3

I gathered this list from numerous sources, in hopes to show you the many books that have been legally or federally cencored banned or challenged throught histoy. Whether you think the books should be banned or not is your own opinion, and I'm interested in hearing it too.

If you think I have missed a book, please give me the name, author and a source that explains if it's banned/chllenged/etc. and I will add it to this list.

This list is under construction <3

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Authors

This is a list of various authors whose works have been Challenged/censored/banned...
Banned Authors
Amis, Kingsley
Angelou, Maya
Aristophanes
Auel, Jean
Baldwin, James
Balzac, Honore de
Bamford, James
Bannerman, Helen
Benchley, Peter
Bennett, D.M.
Bett, Doris
Beveridge, J
Blume, Judy
Boccacio, Giovanni
Bonner, Raymond
Bradbury, Ray
Bryant, John
Burgess, Anthony
Burroughs, Edgar Rice
Cabell, James Branch
Carrol, Lewis
Calhoun, Mary
Chandler, David
Chomsky, Naom
Coleman, Benjamin
Cormier, Robert
Davis, Deborah
Debray, Regis
Defoe, Daniel
De Sade, Marquis
Dos Passos, John
Dreiser, Theodore
Duesberg, Peter
Ellison, Harlan
Ernst, Morris L.
Farrell, James T.
Faulkner, William
Favel, J.
Feuchtwanger, Lion
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Flaubert, Gustav
For, Dario
Foucault, Michel
Frank, Anne
Franklin, Benjamin
Friedan, Betty
Fuentes, Carlos
Gautier, Theophile
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang
Golding, William
Green, Graham
Guest, Judith
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Heller, Joseph
Helper, Hinton
Hemingway, Ernest
Holmes, Peter
Huxley, Aldous
Jackson, Gordon
Jones, James
Joyce, James
Kauffann, Stanley
Keyes, Daniel
Khair-Eddine, Mohammed
King, Stephen
Klein, Norma
Kundera, Milan
L'Engle, Madaleine
Lawrence, D.H.
Leary, Timothy
Lewis, Sinclair
Livingston, Myra Cohn
Louys, Pierre
Luise, Reuban L.
Lurie, Reuben
MacElroy, Wendy
Machiavelli, Niccolo
March, J.M.
Marchetti, Victor
Marks, John D.
Marks, Percy
Marquez, Gabriel Garcia
Mather, Increase
Maugham, Somerset
McGeehee, Ralph
Mencken, H.L.
Miles, Austin
Miller, Arthur
Miller, Henry
Milosz, Czeslaw
Moore, Carol
Moravia, Alberto
Morse, Ann Christensen
Murdock, Iris
Nin, Anais
O'Neill, Eugene
Orwell, George
Paine, Thomas
Parsons, Jonathan
Plath, Sylvia
Pound, Ezra
Protagoras
Pynchon, William
Rabelais, Francois
Reich, Wilhelm
Remarque, Erich Maria
Rice, Anne
Rouseau, Jean-Jacques
Rushdie, Salman
Salinger, J.D.
Sanger, Margaret
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Sewall, Joseph
Shakespeare, William
Shaw, George Bernard
Sinclair, Upton
Snepp, Frank W., III
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
Stein, Gertrude
Steinbeck, John
Stern, Howard
Stopes, Marie
Swift, Jonathan
Thompson, Linda
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Tolstoy, Lev
Twain, Mark
Velikovsky, Immanuel
Vidal, Gore
Voltaire
Von Mises, Ludwig
Vonnegut, Kurt
Walker, Alice
Whitman, Walt


Most Frequently Challenged authors in Various years

Most Frequently Challenged Authors of 2004
1. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of the Alice series
2. Robert Cormier, author of The Chocolate War and We All Fall Down
3. Judy Blume, author of Blubber, Forever, and Deenie
4. Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye, Beloved and Song of Solomon
5. Chris Lynch, author of Extreme Elvin and Iceman
6. Barbara Park, author of the Junie P. Jones series
7. Gary Paulsen, author of Nightjohn and The Beet Fields: Memories of a Sixteenth Summer
8. Dav Pilkey, author of The Captain Underpants series
9. Maurice Sendak, author of In the Night Kitchen
10. Sonya Sones, author of What My Mother Doesn�t Know


MFCA of 2003
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, J. K. Rowling, Robert Cormier, Judy Blume, Katherine Paterson, John Steinbeck, Walter Dean Myers, Robie Harris, Stephen King, and Louise Rennison.


MFCA of 2002
J.K. Rowling, Judy Blume, Robert Cormier, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Stephen King, Lois Duncan, S.E. Hinton, Alvin Schwartz, Maya Angelou, Roald Dahl, and Toni Morrison.


MFCA of 2001
JK. Rowling, Robert Cormier, John Steinbeck, Judy Blume, Maya Angelou, Robie Harris, Gary Paulsen, Walter Dean Myers, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, and Bette Greene.


MFCA of 2000
.K. Rowling, Robert Cormier, Lois Duncan, Piers Anthony, Walter Dean Myers, Phylis Reynolds Naylor, John Steinbeck, Maya Angelou, Christopher Pike, Caroline Cooney, Alvin Schwartz, Lois Lowry, Harry Allard, Paul Zindel, and Judy Blume.


Top 10 Challenged Authors, 1990-present
1. Alvin Schwartz
2. Robert Cormier
3. Judy Blume
4. J.K. Rowling
5. Micheal Willhoite
6. Katherine Paterson
7. Stephen King
8. Maya Angelou
9. R.L. Stine
10. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor



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Books

Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2004

* "The Chocolate War" for sexual content, offensive language, religious viewpoint, being unsuited to age group and violence
* "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers, for racism, offensive language and violence
* "Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture" by Michael A. Bellesiles, for inaccuracy and political viewpoint
* Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey, for offensive language and modeling bad behavior
* "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, for homosexuality, sexual content and offensive language
* "What My Mother Doesn't Know" by Sonya Sones, for sexual content and offensive language
* "In the Night Kitchen" by Maurice Sendak, for nudity and offensive language
* "King & King" by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland, for homosexuality
* "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou, for racism, homosexuality, sexual content, offensive language and unsuited to age group
* "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck, for racism, offensive language and violence


Top Reasons of Banning, 1990-2000

* 1,607 were challenges to �sexually explicit� material (up 161 since 1999);
* 1,427 to material considered to use �offensive language�; (up 165 since 1999)
* 1,256 to material considered �unsuited to age group�; (up 89 since 1999)
* 842 to material with an �occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism,�; (up 69 since 1999)
* 737 to material considered to be �violent�; (up 107 since 1999)
* 515 to material with a homosexual theme or �promoting homosexuality,� (up 18 since 1999)and
* 419 to material �promoting a religious viewpoint.� (up 22 since 1999)


100 Most Frequently Challenged/Banned Books
1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz
2. Daddy�s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
7. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
8. Forever by Judy Blume
9. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
10. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
11. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
13. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
14. The Giver by Lois Lowry
15. It�s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris
16. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
17. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
18. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
19. Sex by Madonna
20. Earth�s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel
21. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
22. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L�Engle
23. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
24. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
25. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
26. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard
27. The Witches by Roald Dahl
28. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein
29. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry
30. The Goats by Brock Cole
31. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane
32. Blubber by Judy Blume
33. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
34. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
35. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier
36. Final Exit by Derek Humphry
37. The Handmaid�s Tale by Margaret Atwood
38. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
39. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
40. What�s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras
41. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
42. Beloved by Toni Morrison
43. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
44. The Pigman by Paul Zindel
45. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard
46. Deenie by Judy Blume
47. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
48. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden
49. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar
50. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
52. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
53. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
54. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole
55. Cujo by Stephen King
56. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
57. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell
58. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
59. Ordinary People by Judith Guest
60. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
61. What�s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras
62. Are You There, God? It�s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
63. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly
64. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher
65. Fade by Robert Cormier
66. Guess What? by Mem Fox
67. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende
68. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney
69. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Native Son by Richard Wright
72. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women�s Fantasies by Nancy Friday
73. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen
74. Jack by A.M. Homes
75. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya
76. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle
77. Carrie by Stephen King
78. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
79. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
80. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge
81. Family Secrets by Norma Klein
82. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole
83. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
84. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
85. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
86. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez
87. Private Parts by Howard Stern
88. Where�s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
89. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene
90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman
91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher
93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis
94. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene
95. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy
96. How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
97. View from the Cherry Tree by Willo Davis Roberts
98. The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
99. The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney
100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

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Sources
+Banned Books and Authors +
+American Library Association: Banned Book Week +
+ Books Banned in the USA+
+The Forbbiden Library+
PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 5:22 pm


eek Wow.

I never knew some of the listed authors and books had been censored/challenged. Thanks a lot for the sources.


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phobia2001

PostPosted: Sun May 08, 2005 6:36 pm


No prob, there are way more but I need to do a lot of reasearch before I can finnish this list. blaugh
PostPosted: Wed May 11, 2005 6:55 pm


eek I think I just found my summer reading list!
Thanks for the info and everything, Phobia. 3nodding It makes me curious to see books banned or whatnot. See stuff like this makes me WANT to read it to see WHY it was banned. heh lol smile

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lil_kev

PostPosted: Fri May 13, 2005 10:06 am


That must have taken alot of work redface

I never knew either, the only ones I ever knew about myself were John Steinbeck and J.K.Rowling
PostPosted: Sun May 15, 2005 3:14 pm


I'll make sure I also list reasons next time I update 3nodding

phobia2001


RyaniTenebrae

PostPosted: Mon May 30, 2005 5:32 am


Niiice! But I have some to add. ^_^
Dr. Seuss, the Lorax was challenged for "criminalizing the foresting industry."
Jackson, Shirley. The lottery was challenged, for violence, I believe.
Pierce, Tamora. The entire Lioness series was challenged for "Sexual content, and the use of a magical amulet to prevent pregnancy."
PostPosted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 5:36 pm


I'm pretty

Honestly, I can almost see why Tamora Pierce's books have been challenged. I mean, they're written on a second or third grade level, and the main character is very very promiscuous. They are books for very small children, dealing with things that most adult books I read have more respect for. It's kind of awkward, and I confess a deep dissapointment in Tamora Pierce because of that.


Actaully, of all the challenged books, In the Night Kitchen makes me the angriest. There are a lot of better books on the list, most with some contraversial topics that could spark some opposition.
But In the Night Kitchen shows a boy's p***s... once. Maybe twice. And it's a beautiful book with wonderful illustrations and a completely innocuous theme. What's wrong with being naked anyway? It's not like it was a picture of anything that could have had sexual undertones... it's a little boy for goodness sake, and little boys generally have penises! scream

Anyway. Sorry.

Kalile Alako


phobia2001

PostPosted: Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:35 pm


Hmm, I will update this list soon. And add a user collected section.

Oh I say that "Mein Kampf" is realy one of the only banned books I would never read.

(Mein Kampf= My struggle. It was authored by Adolph Hitler. I'm Jewish. Do the math xp )
PostPosted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 9:48 pm


I actually want to read Mein Kampf; Hitler was one twisted man, but a genius in politics. I want to read his book to understand how he managed to single handedly pull Germany out of its depression. I am not defending or supporting Hitler in any way... maybe I am, but not affiliated to the Holocaust at all. Only to the good that he did for Germany. I don't like Hitler AT ALL.
...And also, to maybe get a better understanding of Hitler himself, of his motives.

Kalile Alako


Wolhay

PostPosted: Sat Jun 11, 2005 7:04 am


phobia2001
Oh I say that "Mein Kampf" is realy one of the only banned books I would never read.

(Mein Kampf= My struggle. It was authored by Adolph Hitler. I'm Jewish. Do the math xp )

Are you afraid that it could make you question your beliefs?

'Mein Kampf' is on my list of books to read.
PostPosted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 2:00 pm


Wolhay
phobia2001
Oh I say that "Mein Kampf" is realy one of the only banned books I would never read.

(Mein Kampf= My struggle. It was authored by Adolph Hitler. I'm Jewish. Do the math xp )

Are you afraid that it could make you question your beliefs?

'Mein Kampf' is on my list of books to read.

In my case, that's actually why I want to read Mein Kampf. I want to question my beliefs.

Kalile Alako


darktail

Fashionable Genius

PostPosted: Sun Jun 19, 2005 10:00 am


Some motives ar just crazy... stare If only ONE parent declare that the book is bad for his son, then they'll remove it? For one person? I can accept the "required reading list" removing, but not the country's total banning.
They are just crazy. stare
PostPosted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:38 am


The reasons they manage to invent for book-banning never cease to amaze (and in most cases, anger) me, just for pure close-mindedness and ridiculosity (Yes. It is a word. Or at least it is now).

Terena


Itchy Goat

PostPosted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:30 pm


Challenged for homosexual content? o_O

I don't understand people. Do they think that if you read a book about homosexuality, you're going to become homosexual yourself?

I'm a lesbian. You don't see me going out and chasing boys because I've read a book about a heterosexual relationship.

._. Gah. I'm so confused.
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