Thursday, September 29, 2005

List of 110 Banned Books

Um, I just stole the source code from Phillip's blog, so I hope this works...ones I've read in bold, ones I've read some of in italics, and normal looking I haven't touched:




  1. The Bible
    Definitely some, definitely not all
  2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
    I'm pretty sure I've read a little of this.
  3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
    Nope.
  4. The Koran
    Definitely read some, mostly for research and comparison purposes.
  5. Arabian Nights
    Nope.
  6. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
    Like Huck Finn, I had to have read some.
  7. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
    Nope.
  8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
    I don't think so.
  9. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
    Read in high school...though for future reference, anything in high school may very well have not been read completely.
  10. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    Nope.
  11. Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
    Haven't heard of it.
  12. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    Nope.
  13. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
    I think I might have read it in high school, but not sure.
  14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    Nope.
  15. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    Nope.
  16. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
    Nope...though most of these "nopes" I have seen the movie :)
  17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
    Nope.
  18. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
    Nope.
  19. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
    Never heard of it.
  20. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
    Never heard of it.
  21. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    Read in high school.
  22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
    Never heard of it.
  23. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    Never heard of it.
  24. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
    Have not really read it, but have read excerpts from it in a science textbook.
  25. Ulysses by James Joyce
    I read some weird comic book version.
  26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    Never heard of it.
  27. Animal Farm by George Orwell
    Nope.
  28. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
    Read in high school and really liked it.
  29. Candide by Voltaire
    Never heard of it.
  30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    Read in school.
  31. Analects by Confucius
    Never heard of it.
  32. Dubliners by James Joyce
    Never heard of it.
  33. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    Read in high school.
  34. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
    Nope.
  35. Red and the Black by Stendhal
    Never heard of it.
  36. Capital by Karl Marx
    Nope.
  37. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
    Never heard of it.
  38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    I think I've read a couple stories here and there.
  39. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
    Nope.
  40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    Read in high school and liked it.
  41. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
    Never heard of it.
  42. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
    Never heard of it.
  43. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
    About a factory or something I think? If so, I read a little
  44. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    Nope.
  45. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
    Nope.
  46. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    Read in high school.
  47. Diary by Samuel Pepys
    Never heard of it.
  48. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    Nope.
  49. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
    Never heard of it.
  50. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    Never heard of it.
  51. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
    Didn't even see the movie.
  52. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
    Never heard of it, but sounds sorta interesting.
  53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
    Nope.
  54. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
    Nope.
  55. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    I'm pretty sure I was supposed to read it in high school, but didn't get through much.
  56. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
    Nope.
  57. Color Purple by Alice Walker
    Nope.
  58. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
    Nope.
  59. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
    Nope....oooOOOooOOOO character on Lost
  60. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
    Nope.
  61. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
    Nope.
  62. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Never heard of it.
  63. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
    Read in high school I think. I know we watched the movie...can't imagine we would have watched it without reading it, too.
  64. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
    Read in high school...I remember it being a little deep for me at the time.
  65. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    Read in high school.
  66. Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
    Never heard of it...ooooooooOOOOOOOOOoooooo another character in Lost (the last name at least)
  67. Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
    Never heard of it.
  68. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
    Nope.
  69. The Talmud
    Nope.
  70. Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
    Nope.
  71. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
    I think I picked it up when I was younger because my brother had it.
  72. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
    Never heard of it.
  73. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    Never heard of it.
  74. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
    Nope.
  75. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
    Nope.
  76. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
    Nope.
  77. Red Pony by John Steinbeck
    Never heard of it.
  78. Popol Vuh
    What? Definitely never heard of it.
  79. Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
    Nope.
  80. Satyricon by Petronius
    Never heard of it.
  81. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
    Nope...I know, weird.
  82. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    Nope.
  83. Black Boy by Richard Wright
    Nope.
  84. Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
    Never heard of it.
  85. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    Nope.
  86. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
    Never heard of it.
  87. Metaphysics by Aristotle
    Nope...but something I'd be interested in thumbing through.
  88. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    Nope.
  89. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
    Never heard of it.
  90. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
    Nope.
  91. Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
    Nope.
  92. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
    Nope.
  93. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    Nope.
  94. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
    Nope.
  95. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
    Never heard of it.
  96. Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    Never heard of it.
  97. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
    Nope...but maybe read excerpts in Psychology classes.
  98. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
    Never heard of it.
  99. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
    Never heard of it.
  100. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
    Nope.
  101. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
    Never heard of it.
  102. Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
    Nope.
  103. Nana by Émile Zola
    Never heard of it.
  104. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
    Never heard of it.
  105. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
    Nope.
  106. Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    Never heard of it.
  107. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
    Nope.
  108. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
    Nope.
  109. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
    Never heard of it.
  110. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
    Never heard of it.


Wow, that was long...and it's annoying that I haven't heard of many of these. I've read the big 11. I was never real into literature.

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