franny
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words, words, words...
Thu Sep 30 2010

protect your right to read them:

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
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White *
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce *
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley *
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell *
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway *
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway *
21. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut *
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway *
31. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway *
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf *
35. Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James *
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp, by John Irving *
38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien *
41. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf *
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin *
51. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
52. Howards End, by E.M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger *
55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz, by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor *
62. Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut *
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles *
68. Light in August, by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys *
82. White Noise, by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells *
86. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians, by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
94. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster
99. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie


Harry Potter (series)by J.K. Rowling *
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeline L’Engle *
Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret, by Judy Blume *
Twilight (series) by Stephanie Meyer
Forever by Judy Blume *
In the Night Kitchen, by Maurice Sendak *


*franny has read these.

visit the ALA website for more info on challenged and banned books.

1 Comment
  • From:
    Welshamethyst (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Sep 30 2010
    I will admit complete and total ignorance on this. I had no idea that those books were "endangered" let alone dangerous *rolls eyes*. Those books are iconic and should be required reading in schools. Heck, many of them WERE required when I was in Jr. & Sr. High.

    I always wonder at those who want to use the written word to press their agenda then burn it when it becomes an inconvenient truth.