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Do Not Read This Book – 2009
Do Not Read This Book!
Gere Branch, April 20, 2009 and Bethany Branch, October 19, 2012
guest presenter Pam Boesiger
A Gere Book Talk on Banned Books. Pam highlighted over 50 works that have been banned or challenged in public and/or school libraries in the past 100 years.
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
by Maya Angelou [B An424]Arabian Nights or Tales From the 1001 Nights
[various call numbers]Lysistrata
by Aristophanes [various call numbers]Little Black Sambo
by Helen BannermanForever
by Judy BlumeOur Bodies, Ourselves
by Boston Women’s Health [613.042 Bos]Fahrenheit 451
by Ray BradburyBury My Heart at Wounded Knee
by Dee Brown [970.5 Bro]Naked Lunch
by William BurroughsAlice in Wonderland
by Lewis CarrollCanterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer [821 Cha]Perks of Being a Wallflower
by Stephen ChboskyFanny Hill
by John ClelandThe Joy of Sex [series]
by Alex Comfort [613.96 Com]Analects
by Confucius [181 Con]Chocolate War
by Robert CormierCharlie and the Chocolate Factory
by Roald DahlJames and the Giant Peach
by Roald DahlOn the Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin [575 Dar]The Lorax
by Dr. Seuss [jP Seuss]The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
by Henry FieldingAnne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
by Anne Frank [B F84911]The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them
by Erin Gruwell [305.235 Gru]Dialogue
by Galileo Gallilei [520 Gal]One Hundred Years of Solitude
by Gabriel Garcia-MarquezComplete Fairy Tales
by The Brothers Grimm [various]Where’s Waldo?
by Martin Handford [jP Handford]Raisin in the Sun
by Lorraine Hansberry [various call numbers]It’s Perfectly Normal
by Robie Harris [j612.6 Har]Olive’s Ocean
by Kevin HenkesThe Odyssey
by Homer [various call numbers]The Kite Runner
by Khaled HosseiniBrave New World
by Aldous HuxleyUlysses
by James JoyceSexual Behavior in the Human Male/Female
by Alfred Kinsey [392.6 K62__]Book of Laughter and Forgetting
by Milan KunderaThe Unbearable Lightness of Being
by Milan KunderaA Wrinkle in Time
by Madeline L’EngleLady Chatterley’s Lover
by D.H. LawrenceTo Kill a Mockingbird
by Harper LeeThe Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
by C.S. LewisThe Call of the Wild
by Jack LondonThe Tropic of Cancer
by Henry MillerThe Tropic of Capricorn
by Henry MillerParadise Lost
by John Milton [821 Mil]Gone With the Wind
by Margaret MitchellBeloved
by Toni MorrisonBluest Eye
by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon
by Toni MorrisonTTYL
by Lauren MyracleMy Friend Flicka
by Mary O’Hara1984
by George OrwellRights of Man
by Thomas Paine [944.04 Pai]The Golden Compass
by Philip PullmanAnd Tango Makes Three
by Justin Richardson [jP Ric]The Harry Potter series
by J.K. RowlingCatcher in the Rye
by J.D. SalingerThe Satanic Verses
by Salman RushdieWhat Every Girl Should Know
by Margaret SangerThe Lovely Bones
by Alice SeboldHamlet
by William Shakespeare [822.33 Sha__]King Lear
by William Shakespeare [822.33 Sha__]Twelfth Night
by William Shakespeare [822.33 Sha__]A Light in the Attic
by Shel Silverstein [j811 Sil]Where the Sidewalk Ends
by Shel Silverstein [j811 Sil]The Grapes of Wrath
by John SteinbeckOf Mice and Men
by John SteinbeckUncle Tom’s Cabin
by Harriet Beecher StoweBartimaeus Trilogy
by Jonathan StroudZen Buddhism
by D.T. Suzuki [294.392 Suz]Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan SwiftThe Bible
[220.52 various]The Koran
[297.122 various]The Talmud
[various]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
by Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer
by Mark TwainSlaughterhouse Five
by Kurt VonnegutThe Color Purple
by Alice WalkerWebster’s New American Collegiate Dictionary, 8th Edition
[423 Web8]Little House in the Big Woods
by Laura Ingalls WilderLittle House on the Prairie
by Laura Ingalls WilderNative Son
by Richard Wright