"Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States." Taken straight from the American Library Association (ALA).
I love to read and the thought of not being able to read something because it has been banned or been Censored is just horrible and wrong. Below is the top 9 books that have either been Banned or challenged in the 20th century to be removed from library shelves or from classrooms. The titles in bold are books I read in school when I was younger and loved.
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
Each year, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms. See Frequently Challenged Books for more details. Click here to see the full list of books that have been challanged or banned in the 20th century.
Top 10 Challenged Books in 2010
1) And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
2) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie;
3) Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
4) Crank by Ellen Hopkins
5) The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
6) Lush by Natasha Friend
7) What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
8) Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
9) Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie
10) Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
These are such great books I can't imagine not ever being able to read these great titles...
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