Wednesday 13 July 2011

Celebrate Banned Books Week

Harry Potter booksLittle Black Sambo, 1955 edition by Helen BannermanThe Annotated Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher StoweThe Witches by Roald DahlGranta, Issue 37: They Fuck You Up: The Family by Bill Buford
The Complete Parallel Bible; The Talmud: Selected Writings; The Holy Qur'anThe Call of the Wild by Jack LondonDracula by Bram StokerThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerSlaughterhouse-Five or The Children's Crusade by Kurt VonnegutPollard's 1886 edition of Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAlice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis CarrollLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanUlysses by James JoyceThe Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
WatchmenThe Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel HawthorneSteal This Book by Abbie HoffmanJames and the Giant Peach by Roald DahlThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAnd Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
Wonder how many I've read, banning a book makes me want to read it.

3 comments:

  1. Yes, I agree with you. Abanned book does have a cetain allure.

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  2. it makes you wonder why people bother banning books. other people inevitably read them to find out why they were banned. i took at them and i read about half of them. cool pics

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