Keith Snyder

Despite its making me acutely aware of

how scattershot my reading habits are,
how many books I apparently never bothered to finish, and
the fact that I've finished one (1) book since December '04 (SCHOOL DAYS, the new Robert B. Parker),

this was an interesting exercise. Glommed from Jennifer Jordan.

Below you'll find a list of the 110 top banned books. Bold what you’ve read, italicize what you’ve read part of and think where you would be without what you've learned.

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

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