From nialla42

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In honor of BBW, I'm posted the Banned Book Meme. Copy this list to your LJ and bold the books you've read.

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–1999

1. Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz


2. Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite


3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou


4. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier


5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain


6. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck


7. Forever by Judy Blume


8. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson


9. Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman


10. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger


11. The Giver by Lois Lowry


12. My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier


13. It’s Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris


14. Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor


15. Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine


16. A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck


17. The Color Purple by Alice Walker


18. Sex by Madonna


19. Earth’s Children (Series) by Jean M. Auel


20. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson


21. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak


22. The Witches by Roald Dahl


23. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle


24. The New Joy of Gay Sex by Charles Silverstein


25. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous


26. The Goats by Brock Cole


27. The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard


28. Anastasia Krupnik (Series) by Lois Lowry


29. Final Exit by Derek Humphry


30. Blubber by Judy Blume


31. Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam


32. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George


33. Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane


34. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison


35. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Girls: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Daughters by Lynda Madaras


36. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers


37. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood


38. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton


39. The Pigman by Paul Zindel


40. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee


41. We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier


42. Deenie by Judy Blume


43. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes


44. Annie on my Mind by Nancy Garden


45. Beloved by Toni Morrison


46. The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar


47. Cross Your Fingers, Spit in Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz


48. Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling


49. Cujo by Stephen King


50. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl


51. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein


52. Ordinary People by Judith Guest


53. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis


54. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley


55. Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice)


56. Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard


57. Asking About Sex and Growing Up by Joanna Cole


58. What’s Happening to my Body? Book for Boys: A Growing-Up Guide for Parents & Sons by Lynda Madaras


59. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell


60. Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume


61. Boys and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy


62. Crazy Lady by Jane Conly


63. Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher


64. Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan


65. Fade by Robert Cormier


66. Guess What? by Mem Fox


67. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut


68. Lord of the Flies by William Golding


69. Native Son by Richard Wright


70. Women on Top: How Real Life Has Changed Women’s Fantasies by Nancy Friday


71. Curses, Hexes and Spells by Daniel Cohen


72. On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer


73. The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende


74. Jack by A.M. Homes


75. Arizona Kid by Ron Koertge


76. Family Secrets by Norma Klein


77. Mommy Laid An Egg by Babette Cole


78. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya


79. Where Did I Come From? by Peter Mayle


80. The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney


81. Carrie by Stephen King


82. The Dead Zone by Stephen King


83. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain


84. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison


85. Always Running by Luis Rodriguez


86. Private Parts by Howard Stern


87. Where’s Waldo? by Martin Hanford


88. Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene


89. Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume


90. Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman


91. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett


92. Running Loose by Chris Crutcher


93. Sex Education by Jenny Davis


94. Jumper by Steven Gould


95. Christine by Stephen King


96. The Drowning of Stephen Jones by Bette Greene


97. That Was Then, This is Now by S.E. Hinton


98. Girls and Sex by Wardell Pomeroy


99. The Wish Giver by Bill Brittain


100. Jump Ship to Freedom by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

I have a serious WTF about some of these books and why they're on the list.  "Where's Waldo?"?  I remember my friends and I sneaking around copies of "Deenie" and "Are You There God, It's Me Margret?" when I was in 5th or 6th grade.  There was a whole kerfuffle about the fact that the bookmobile had even carried them.  So naturally we wanted to read them.

I wrote one of my best bullshit reports *ever* on "Lord of the Flies" my sophomore year in high school.  (I wrote it during geometry class, which might help explain why I did much better in English class.)

This list totally makes me want to go back and read a lot of these.