Apparently, Moon has tagged me to join in the fun to count how many of the The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990?2000 I’ve read. Ok, here it goes:
# The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
# Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
# The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (I don’t like Salinger — the horror!)
# Blubber by Judy Blume (many, many moons ago. Back in my Catholic school, book club days)
# To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
# Beloved by Toni Morrison
# The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
# The Pigman by Paul Zindel
# A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
# Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
# Cujo by Stephen King
# James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
# The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell (I’m sure this will show up in some NSA/FBI database somewhere)
# American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
# Are You There, God? It?s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
# Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
# Lord of the Flies by William Golding
# Native Son by Richard Wright
# Carrie by Stephen King
# The Dead Zone by Stephen King
# The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
# Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
# Where?s Waldo? by Martin Hanford (Wha?)
# How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
24?
Will Gideon, Keith, and Eli join in the fun?
Posted on 28 September 2005