Banned Book List - How many have you read?  

Wow, I did not realize that so many Judy Blume books were challenged. I think I read most of her works when I was younger, she was my favorite author for young adults. I noticed a few others on the list that I read, but now I will be curious to check out the ones I did not read to try to understand why they would be so controversial.

Oh I have a few on that list I've read and others I know have been challenged in the past. It's shame such books are too. I know one county here in Florida won't let Judy Blume books on the shelves of the school libraries. To me that is wrong. These books are great. There are a couple in there that weren't marked as series so I did when I put it below:

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling
Forever by Judy Blume
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine
A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (and it's sequals)
Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Blubber by Judy Blume
Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
Deenie by Judy Blume
Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney (and it's sequal)
Carrie by Stephen King
Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene

Judy Blume was quite controversial back in the day. I still have my copy of Wifey. God, that book was scandalous reading back in the day. Still a bit racy, but not nearly as bad as before.

I try to read as many books as possible that are on the list. It's my own private rebellion.

i have watched the movie based on "carrie", i hope it counts. apart from that i haven't read any of the banned books.which is sad.

I've never read "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" so I don't know why it's on that list but I adore Maya Angelou and I can't imagine why she would be on that list!

I too borrowed Judy Blume's books from our school library back in the day. I don't know why those are being challenged.

OMG Where's Waldo also? I don't have much time to read in general but can someone please explain to me why people challenge books like these? Thanks. :\

I read all the Harry Potter books but the new one. I don't have time or like to read. I have t, but have only gotten through 20 pages in... a year. I have read GooseBumps series when I was like 8 ... I didn't think those were challenging, my 7 year old sister read like all of them.

I have read some of these books, and i didn't even know they were banned (as i'm from ireland) What a load, why are they banned it just seems stupid to me as i have enjoyed them all and i'm not a murderer or a sicko, these are the ones i've read:

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling (& my sons have read all of them)
Goosebumps by R.L. Stine
Cujo by Stephen King
Lord of the Flies by William Golding (excellent book)
The Dead Zone by Stephen King
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain (very good)
Carrie by Stephen King

I love Stephen King books & movies i don't think i would read as much as i do if i didn't have S.K. to scare the wits out of me some nights.

My sons love harry potter (i think it really improves their imagination, and gets them thinking.)

Wow, I have read a lot of those books. I didn't count but I think that it is more than half of them. I don't understand why some of them are on the banned book list but some are pretty obvious. I think that most of them are really good books.

I work in a library and I have to say that just about all those books are very popular and go out frequently. I've read many of them.

I can't understand why Flowers for Algernon would be a problem, nor many others. The funny thing is that a lot of those you listed are required reading in many schools.

I only read two banned books (but they are not on your list). The first one was Lady Chatterly's Lover by D.H. Lawrence and the other was a breezing swiftly through of Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (and only because I was curious) and I hated it. Didn't understand what he "h" he was getting at. Loved Lady Chatterly though it was a beautiful love story. I remember my mother reading Lil Black Sambo to my brother and I on those long winter nights in the 40's. Can't understand why any one would want to ban Mark Twain. Would like to meet the "censors".