banned books meme

[kengr]

(swiped from delayra)

List of the top 110(sic) banned books (of all time).
Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some

1. The Bible
   
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
   
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
   
4. The Koran
   
5. Arabian Nights (hey my copy takes up 20+ inches of shelf. I'm only a few volumes into it!)
   
6. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
   
7. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
   
8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
   
9. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
   
10. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
    
11. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli (I'll finish it eventually)
    
12. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
    
13. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
    
14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
    
15. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
    
16. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
    
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
    
18. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
    
19. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
    
20. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
    
21. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    
22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
    
23. Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
    
24. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
    
25. Ulysses by James Joyce
    
26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
    
27. Animal Farm by George Orwell
    
28. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
    
29. Candide by Voltaire
    
30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
    
31. Analects by Confucius
    
32. Dubliners by James Joyce
    
33. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    
34. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
    
35. Red and the Black by Stendhal
    
36. Das Capital by Karl Marx
    
37. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
    
38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    
39. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
    
40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
    
41. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
    
42. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
    
43. Jungle by Upton Sinclair
    
44. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
    
45. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
    
46. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
    
47. Diary by Samuel Pepys
    
48. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
    
49. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
    
50. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
    
51. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
    
52. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
    
53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
    
54. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
    
55. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
    
56. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
    
57. Color Purple by Alice Walker
    
58. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
    
59. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
    
60. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
    
61. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
    
62. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
    
63. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
    
64. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
    
65. Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
    
66. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
    
67. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
    
68. The Talmud
    
69. Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
    
70. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
    
71. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
    
72. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
    
73. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (boring)
    
74. Separate Peace by John Knowles
    
75. Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
    
76. Red Pony by John Steinbeck
    
77. Popol Vuh
    
78. Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
    
79. Satyricon by Petronius
    
80. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
    
81. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    
82. Black Boy by Richard Wright
    
83. Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
    
84. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
    
85. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
    
86. Metaphysics by Aristotle
    
87. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
    
88. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
    
89. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
    
90. Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
    
91. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
    
92. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
    
93. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
    
94. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
    
95. Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    
96. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
    
97. Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
    
98. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
    
99. Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
    
100. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
     
101. Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
     
102. Nana by Emile Zola
     
103. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
     
104. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
     
105. Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
     
106. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (both editions)
     
107. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
     
108. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
     
109. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
     

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wow...that's....very long.