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Monday, September 24, 2018

TTT: My Favorite Banned/Challenged Books

Top Ten Tuesday: I'm going off the board this week and instead of listing favorite authors' books I haven't read, I am listing my favorite books which have been banned or challenged over the past thirty years. I used these lists from the American Library Association to make my selections: Top 100 Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-1999; Top 100 Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009; Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged books per year (2010-2017.)

Listed in no particular order.
  1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
  2. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L’Engle
  3. The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood
  4. The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton
  5. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
  6. Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
  7. Bless Me, Ultima, by Rudolfo A. Anaya
  8. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford
  9. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
  10. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
  11. Speak, by Laurie Halse Anderson
  12. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes, by Chris Crutcher
  13. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
  14. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  15. Hunger Games (series) by Suzanne Collins
  16. Looking for Alaska by John Green
  17. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
  18. The Curious Incident of a Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  19. The Holy Bible
  20. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
  21. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
In case you didn't know, this week is Banned Books Week (September 23-29). We all need to be mindful of how damaging it can be to all books and authors if any books are banned. I make a point of reading a banned book every year at this time just to make a move for freedom. 

This week I hope to read at least two books on the most frequently banned books of 2017 that I haven't read already. The possibilities are:  Drama by Raina Telgemeir; I am Jazz by Herthel and Jennings; Sex is a Funny Word by Silverberg. I will try to obtain them from the public library, which encourages libraries to purchase books on the banned list so more people will read them!

Join me? Select a banned book this week to read. Check out the links above for suggestions.  You'll be surprised how many of your favorite books are on the lists. 




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