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Banned Books Week: September 23- 30, 2006
Observed since 1982, Banned Books Week calls attention to the most challenged and banned books in the U.S. It celebrates the first amendment right to free speech, which includes the right to read and write books that are considered unorthodox or controversial. It also celebrates the freedom to choose and the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those viewpoints to all who wish to read them.
To observe Banned Books Week this year, we have compiled a list of banned books from 1990- 2006 that are available in McCain Library.
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Books Challenged or Banned in 2005-2006
The bluest eye, by Toni Morrison New York: Knopf, 2000, c1993. PS3563.O8749 B55
Cracking India: a novel by Bapsi Sidhwa. Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed Editions, 1991. PR9540.9.S53 I34 DISPLAY-LIB
Geography Club, by Brent Hartinger HarperCollins, 2003. PZ7.H2635 Ge
Girl, interrupted, by Susanna Kaysen New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
RC464.K36 A3 DISPLAY-LIBThe giver, by Lois Lowry. New York: Laurel Leaf, 1993.
PS3562.O8993 G58 DISPLAY-LIBThe handmaid's tale, by Margaret Atwood. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1986. PR9199.3.A8 H3
Harry Potter and the half-blood prince, by J.K. Rowling. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, 2005. PZ7.R79835 Halh
I know why the caged bird sings, by Maya Angelou. New York: Random House, [1970, c1969]. PS3551.N464 Z466 DISPLAY-LIB
Lolita, by Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. New York: Putnam, [1958, c1955]
PG3476.N3 L6To kill a mockingbird, by Harper Lee. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, c1999. PS3562.E353 T6 DISPLAY-LIB
The Frequently challenged Books of 1990- 2001
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. PS1300 .F72 v.8 DISPLAY-LIB
The adventures of Tom Sawyer, by Mark Twain [pseud.] Illustrated by Donald McKay. New York, Grossett & Dunlap, [1946] PS1306 .A1 1946r DISPLAY-LIB
Always running: La Vida Loca, gang days in L.A., by Luis J. Rodriguez
New York : Simon & Schuster, 1994. HV6439.U72 L77 DISPLAY-LIBAmerican psycho: a novel, by Bret Easton Ellis. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. PS3555.L5937 A8 DISPLAY-LIB
The awakening, by Kate Chopin, with an introduction and notes by Warner Berthoff. [Ann Arbor : University Microfilms International, 1984?].
PS1294.C63 A6 DISPLAY-LIBBeloved: a novel, by Toni Morrison. New York: Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1987. PS3563.O8749 B4
Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress, by Dai Sijie; translated from the French by Ina Rilke New York : Knopf, 2001 (2002 printing). PQ2664.A437 B3513 DISPLAY-LIB
The bean trees: a novel, by Barbara Kingsolver. New York : Harper Perennial, [1992], c1988. PS3561.I496 B44 DISPLAY-LIB
Black boy, a record of childhood and youth, by Richard Wright. New York, London, Harper & brothers [1945]. PS3545.R815 Z5r DISPLAY-LIB
Bless me, Ultima, by Rudolfo A. Anaya New York: Warner Books, [1994], c1972. PS3551.N27 B58 DISPLAY-LIB
Brave new world, by Aldous Huxley. Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer Books, [1991?], c1946. PR6015.U9 B6 DISPLAY-LIB
The catcher in the rye, by J.D. Salinger. Boston, Little, Brown, 1951. PS3537.A426 C3
Cujo, by Stephen King. New York : Viking Press, 1981. PS3561.I483 C8 DISPLAY-LIB
Family values: two moms and their son, by Phyllis Burke. New York: Random House, c1993. HQ75.53 .B87 DISPLAY-LIB
Of mice and men, by John Steinbeck. New York : Triangle Books, 1939, c1937. PS3537.T3234 O3
Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone, by J.K. Rowling. New York: A.A. Levine Books, 1998. PZ7.R79835 Har
Harry Potter and the goblet of fire, by J.K. Rowling. New York: Arthur A. Levine Books, c2000. PZ7.R79835 Hal DISPLAY-LIB
How the García girls lost their accents, by Julia Alvarez New York: Plume, [1992]. PS3551.L845 H66 DISPLAY-LIB
Inferno, by Dante Alighieri; translated, with a commentary, by Charles S. Singleton. [Princeton, N.J.] Princeton University Press [1970]. PQ4302 .F70 DISPLAY-LIB
The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan New York : Putnam's, c1989.
PS3570.A48 J6 DISPLAY-LIBLike water for chocolate: a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies, by Laura Esquivel; translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen. New York: Doubleday, 1992. PQ7298.15.S638 C6613 DISPLAY-LIB
Lord of the flies, by William Golding; Introd. by E. M. Forster. New York: Coward-McCann, 1962. PR6013.O35 L67 DISPLAY-LIB
Native son, by Richard Wright. New York, London: Harper & Brothers, 1940. PS3545.R815 N3 1940r
Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison. New York: Knopf, 1989 [c1977]. PS3563.O8749 S66
One flew over the cuckoo's nest, a novel, by Ken Kesey. New York: Viking Press [1962] PS3561.E667 O54
Ordinary people, by Judith Guest New York: Viking Press, 1976.
PS3557.U345 O7 DISPLAY-LIBPaula by Isabel Allende; translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, c1995. PQ8098.1.L54 Z4713
Peter [electronic resource], by Kate Walker. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993, c1991. PZ7.W15298 Pe 1993eb
Push: a novel, by Sapphire. New York: Vintage Contemporaries/Vintage Books, 1997. PS3569.A63 P87 DISPLAY-LIB
Slaughterhouse-five; or, the children's crusade, a duty-dance with death, by Kurt Vonnegut. [New York] Delacorte Press [1969]. PS3572.O5 S53 DISPLAY-LIB
Sophie's choice, by William Styron New York : Random House, [1979].
PS3569.T9 S6 DISPLAY-LIB