This annual nation wide event celebrates the first amendment and highlights the attempts at censorship on certain books. So to help celebrate the freedom to read, our library has pulled out 16 books which have been banned somewhere, but not here! These include the following:
1984 by George Orwell
As I Lay Dying
Candide by Voltaire
Brave New World
Catcher in the Rye
East of Eden
Fahrenheit 451
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood
Leaves of Grass
Lolita
Madame Bovary
Native Son
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
As I Lay Dying
Candide by Voltaire
Brave New World
Catcher in the Rye
East of Eden
Fahrenheit 451
Gulliver’s Travels
In Cold Blood
Leaves of Grass
Lolita
Madame Bovary
Native Son
To Kill a Mockingbird
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week.
2 comments:
I've only read 8 of the books on that portion of the list. I feel ill-read :-) Though people have tried to ban Huckleberry Finn many times, for reasons that make very little sense. Free Speech for Me, but Not for Thee, by Nat Hentoff, goes into some detail about that particular book.
I was also surprised at how many books on this list I had heard of, but how few I had actually read.
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