IT'S BANNED BOOK WEEK SEPT 24 - OCT 1, 2011

Thanks for visiting augie's quick post, today is a little different, this is banned book week, so have a peek.

Just about every country places some restrictions on what many be published, many of these restrictions are considered to be obscene, which can mean the suppressing of sexual content, racism, glorifying drugs or social standing. The degree of control differs from country to country and at different periods of time.

Governments have also sought to ban certain books that they perceives to contain material that could threaten, embarrass or criticize it; religious authorities (claiming to protect the innocent), immorality as well as profanity.

Banned or challenged books are those that have been removed from the shelves of libraries, bookstores, or classrooms because of its controversial content. In the past some of these books have been burned and or refused further publication.

This is a form of censorship and hits the very core of our freedom to read. So, today we celebrate ‘banned book’ week and read, read and read. Below is just an inkling of some of those books by years.

Take the time this week and pick up one or three of them, and maybe you can see why they were banned or challenged.

According to Mike Clark, president of the Association of London Chief Librarians, “Banned Books Week points up the ludicrousness of banning legitimate literature. perhaps more than any other profession, librarians find themselves dealing with the reality of censorship on a day to day basis. In bringing together these controversial titles of past and present, Banned Books gives us an opportunity to discuss what freedom of expression means today."

List of banned books from the 1600's-2000's

About a Silence in Literature

Živorad Stojković

A Feast for the Seaweeds (1983)

Haidar Haidar

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)

Lewis Carroll

All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

Erich Maria Remarque

American Psycho (1991)

Bret Easton Ellis

Angaray (1932)

Sajjad Zaheer

Animal Farm (1945)

George Orwell

Areopagitica (1644)

John Milton

A Spoon on Earth

Hyeon Gi-yeong

Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism (2008)

Ha-Joon Chang

Big River, Big Sea — Untold Stories of 1949 (2009)

Lung Ying-tai

Borstal Boy (1958)

Brendan Behan

Brave New World (1932)

Aldous Huxley

Burger's Daughter (1979)

Nadine Gordimer

Candide (1759)

Voltaire

The Country Girls (1960)

Edna O'Brien

Curved River (1963)

Živojin Pavlović

The Da Vinci Code (2003)

Dan Brown

The Death of Lorca (1971)

Ian Gibson

The Diary of Anne Frank (1947)

Anne Frank

Dictionary of Modern Serbo-Croatian Language

Miloš Moskovljević

Doctor Zhivago (1957)

Boris Pasternak

Droll Stories (1832-37)

Honoré de Balzac

The Devil's Discus (1964)

Rayne Kruger

El Señor Presidente (1946)

Miguel Ángel Asturias

Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1748)

John Cleland

The Federal Mafia (1992)

Irwin Schiff

The Fugitive (Perburuan) (1950)

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

The First Circle (1968)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Grapes of Wrath (1939)

John Steinbeck

The Gulag Archipelago (1973)

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

How to make disposable silencers (1984)

Desert and Eliezer Flores

Howl (1955)

Allen Ginsberg

Islam - A Concept of Political World Invasion (2003)

R. V. Bhasin

July's People (1981)

Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence (2009)

Jaswant Singh

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Jinnah of Pakistan (1982)

Stanley Wolpert

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Jæger – i krig med eliten (2009)

Thomas Rathsack

The King Never Smiles (2006)

Paul M. Handley

Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928)

D. H. Lawrence

Lajja (1993)

Taslima Nasrin

Little Black Sambo (1899)

Helen Bannerman

Lolita (1955)

Vladimir Nabokov

The Lonely Girl (1962)

Edna O'Brien

The Lottery (1948)

Shirley Jackson

Madame Bovary (1856)

Gustave Flaubert

Mein Kampf (1925)

Adolf Hitler

The Meritous Price of Our Redemption (1650)

William Pynchon

My Secret Life

"Walter (pseudonym).

The Metamorphosis (1915)

Franz Kafka

A Message to Man and Humanity

Aleksandar Cvetković

Mirror of the Polish Crown (1618)

Sebastian Miczyński

The Mountain Wreath (1847)

Petar II Petrović-Njegoš

Military Inc.: Inside Pakistan's Military Economy (2007)

Ayesha Siddiqa

Naked Lunch (1959)

William S. Burroughs

New Class (1957)

Milovan Đilas

The Nickel-Plated-Feet Gang During the Occupation

Successors of Louis Forton (1879-1934)

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)

George Orwell

Notre ami le roi (1993)

Gilles Perrault

Not Without My Daughter (1991)

Betty Mahmoody

Nine Hours To Rama (1962)

Stanley Wolpert

On Fierce Wound - Fierce Herb

Ratko Zakić

On the Origins and Perpetual Use of the Legislative Powers of the Apostolic Kings of Hungary in Matters Ecclesiastical. (1764) Adam F. Kollár

One Day of Life (1980)

Manlio Argueta

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962)

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Operation Dark Heart (2010)

Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer

The Peaceful Pill Handbook (2007)

Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart

Rangila Rasul (1927)

Pt. Chamupati

Rights of Man (1791)

Thomas Paine

Rowena Goes Too Far (1931)

H. C. Asterley

The Satanic Verses (1988)

Salman Rushdie

Snorri the Seal (1941)

Frithjof Sælen

Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada (1989)

Zuhair Kashmeri & Brian McAndrew

The Song of the Red Ruby (1956)

Agnar Mykle

Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim (1984)

Sunanda Datta-Ray

Spycatcher (1985)

Peter Wright

Storytellers II

Boško Novaković

Suicide mode d'emploi (1982)

Claude Guillon

Thalia

Arius (AD 250 or 256 – 336)

The True Furqan (1999)

"Al Saffee" and "Al Mahdee"

Tropic of Cancer (1934)

Henry Miller

The Turner Diaries (1978)

William Luther Pierce

Ulysses (1922)

James Joyce

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Understanding Islam through Hadis (1982)

Ram Swarup

United States – Vietnam Relations: 1945–1967 (1971)

Robert McNamara and the United States Department of Defense

Uten en tråd (1966)

Jens Bjørneboe

Unarmed Victory (1963)

Bertrand Russell

Various works

Shen Congwen (1902-1988)

Watershed

Čeda Vuković

The Well of Loneliness (1928)

Radclyffe Hall

Year 501: The Conquest Continues (1993)

Noam

Zhuan Falun (1993)

Li Hongzhi

Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books: 2000-2009

The St. Charles Public Library DOES NOT BAN these books or any others.

1 Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling                                                      2 Alice (Series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor  3 The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier  4 And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell  5 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck                                                          6 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou  7 Scary Stories (Series) by Alvin Schwartz  8 His Dark Materials (series) by Philip Pullman  9 TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series) by Myracle, Lauren 10 The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 11 Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers 12 It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris 13 Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey 14 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 15 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison                                                         16 Forever by Judy Blume 17 The Color Purple by Alice Walker 18 Go Ask Alice by Anonymous 19 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 20 King & King by Linda de Haan 21 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee                                                       22 Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily von Ziegesar 23 The Giver by Lois Lowry 24 In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak 25 Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan 26 Beloved by Toni Morrison 27 My Brother Sam is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier 28 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson 29 The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline Cooney 30 We All Fall Down by Robert Cormier                                                        31 What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones 32 Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo A. Anaya 33 Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson 34 The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler 35 Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison 36 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley                                                          37 It’s So Amazing by Robie Harris 38 Arming America by Michael Bellasiles 39 Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane 40 Life is Funny by E.R. Frank 41 Whale Talk by Chris Crutcher 42 The Fighting Ground by Avi 43 Blubber by Judy Blume 44 Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher 45 Crazy Lady by Jane Conly                                                                              46 Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 47 The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby by George Beard 48 Rainboy Boys by Alex Sanchez 49 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 50 The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini                                                             51 Daughters of Eve by Lois Duncan 52 The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson 53 You Hear Me? by Betsy Franco 54 The Facts Speak for Themselves by Brock Cole 55 Summer of My German Soldier by Bette Greene                                           56 When Dad Killed Mom by Julius Lester 57 Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause 58 Fat Kid Rules the World by K.L. Going 59 Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes 60 Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson 61 Draw Me A Star by Eric Carle                                                                   62 The Stupids (Series) by Harry Allard 63 The Terrorist by Caroline Cooney 64 Mick Harte Was Here by Barbara Park 65 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien 66 Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor 67 A Time to Kill by John Grisham 68 Always Running by Luis Rodriguez                                                                      69 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 70 Harris and Me by Gary Paulsen 71 Junie B. Jones (series) by Barbara Park 72 Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison 73 What’s Happening to My Body Book by Lynda Madaras 74 The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 75 Anastasia (series) by Lois Lowry                                                                            76 A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving 77 Crazy:  A Novel by Benjamin Lebert 78 The Joy of Gay Sex by Dr. Charles Silverstein 79 The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss 80 A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck 81 Black Boy by Richard Wright 82 Deal With It! by Esther Drill 83 Detour for Emmy by Marilyn Reynolds 84 So Far From the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Watkins 85 Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher 86 Cut by Patricia McCormick 87 Tiger Eyes by Judy Blume 88 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood 89 Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissenger 90 A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle 91 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George                                                  92 The Boy Who Lost His Face by Louis Sachar 93 Bumps in the Night by Harry Allard 94 Goosebumps (Series) by R.L. Stine 95 Shade’s Children by Garth Nix 96 Grendel by John Gardner 97 The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende 98 I Saw Esau by Iona Opte 99 Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume 100 America: A Novel by E.R. Frank   2009 TOP 10 TITLES MOST CHALLENGED TITLES:

1. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series) by Lauren Myracle

Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs

2. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

Reasons: Homosexuality

3. The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Anti-Family, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide

4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Reasons: Racism, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

5. Twilight (series) by Stephenie Meyer

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

6. The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

7. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Reasons: Sexism, Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group, Drugs, Suicide, Violence

8. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

9. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

10. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

Reasons: Nudity, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

2010 The ALA’s Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books:

And Tango Makes Three

by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

Reasons: Homosexuality, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

by Sherman Alexie

Reasons: Offensive language, Racism, Sex Education, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group, Violence

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Reasons: Insensitivity, Offensive Language, Racism, Sexually Explicit

Crank

by Ellen Hopkins

Reasons: Drugs, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit

The Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group, Violence

Lush

by Natasha Friend

Reasons: Drugs, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group

What My Mother Doesn’t Know

by Sonya Sones

Reasons: Sexism, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

Reasons: Drugs, Inaccurate, Offensive Language, Political Viewpoint, Religious Viewpoint

Revolutionary Voices

edited by Amy Sonnie

Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit

Twilight

by Stephenie Meyer

Reasons: Religious Viewpoint, Violence

As well as this is Latino Heritage Month 2011

Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill into law that effectively eliminated ethnic studies programs (although their real target was Tuscon school district’s famed Mexican American studies). One of the books that ban supporters kept referring to was Chicano scholar Rodolfo Acuna’s Occupied America: A History of Chicanos. Superintendent Tom Horne was famously quoted as saying, “the title of the book implies to the kids that they live in occupied America, or occupied Mexico.” Other accusations: the book teaches students to think of themselves as victims of racism and to think of white people as oppressors. The ban on the Mexican American studies program–and by extension, the book–went into effect as of January 1, 2011.

Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez

Reasons: homosexuality, profane language, vulgarity

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

Reasons: sexually explicit, rape, violence, promoting intolerance

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya

Reasons: occult/satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, and violence

Tell me: WHAT DO YOU THINK?