Tuesday, January 4, 2011

23. Read Top 10 Classic Banned or Challenged Books, as defined by a prestigious book list





For my list of classic books I choose the American Library Association as my "prestigious" group.
1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
I have always thought that banning books was stupid. Do the people who decide to ban books think that just because they say we shouldn't read them we will listen? If most of you are like me then when someone says you can't do something it only makes you want to do it more -- so I say, Continue to "ban" books that means that more people will be more likely to read them! (For the record, I have already read all of these books except for The Great Gatsby & The Sound and the Fury but I will read them again in these 1001 days.)
Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too. ~Voltaire

1 comments:

Tamarra said...

what a great idea, have read.. 2.

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