{"id":1119,"date":"2005-03-02T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-02T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/wow-am-i-a-book-nerd-a-rebel-book-nerd\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:44","slug":"wow-am-i-a-book-nerd-a-rebel-book-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/03\/02\/wow-am-i-a-book-nerd-a-rebel-book-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"wow am i a book nerd – a rebel book nerd"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nList of the top 109 banned books of all time. Bold the ones you’ve read. Italicize the ones you’ve read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read.<\/p>\n

1. The Bible (Torah, and New Testament, much of the Nevi’im)<\/b>
\n2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain<\/b>
\n3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes<\/b>
\n4. The Koran<\/b>
\n5. Arabian Nights<\/b>
\n6. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain<\/b>
\n7. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift<\/b>
\n8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer<\/b>
\n9. Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/b>
\n10. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman<\/b>
\n11. The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli<\/b>
\n12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/b>
\n13. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank<\/b>
\n14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert<\/i>
\n15. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens<\/b>
\n16. Les Miserables by Victor Hugo<\/b>
\n17. Dracula by Bram Stoker<\/b>
\n18. Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin<\/b>
\n19. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
\n20. Essays by Michel de Montaigne<\/b>
\n21. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck<\/b>
\n22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon<\/b>
\n23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy<\/b>
\n24. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin<\/b>
\n25. Ulysses by James Joyce<\/b>
\n26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio<\/u>
\n27. Animal Farm by George Orwell<\/b>
\n28. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwel<\/b>l
\n29. Candide by Voltaire<\/b>
\n30. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee<\/b>
\n31. Analects by Confucius<\/b>
\n32. Dubliners by James Joyce<\/b>
\n33. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck<\/b>
\n34. Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway<\/b>
\n35. Red and the Black by Stendhal<\/u>
\n36. Das Kapital by Karl Marx<\/b>
\n37. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire<\/b>
\n38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/b>
\n39. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence<\/i>
\n40. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<\/b>
\n41. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
\n42. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell<\/b>
\n43. Jungle by Upton Sinclair<\/b>
\n44. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque<\/b>
\n45. Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx<\/b>
\n46. Lord of the Flies by William Golding<\/b>
\n47. Diary by Samuel Pepys<\/b>
\n48. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway<\/b>
\n49. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy<\/b>
\n50. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury<\/b>
\n51. Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak<\/b>
\n52. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant<\/b>
\n53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey<\/b>
\n54. Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus<\/i>
\n55. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller<\/b>
\n56. Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X (or Alex Haley?)<\/b>
\n57. Color Purple by Alice Walker<\/b>
\n58. Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke<\/b>
\n59. Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison<\/b>
\n60. Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe<\/b>
\n61. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn<\/b>
\n62. East of Eden by John Steinbeck<\/b>
\n63. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison<\/b>
\n64. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou<\/b>
\n65. Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau<\/b>
\n66. Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
\n67. Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes<\/b>
\n68. The Talmud<\/b>
\n69. Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau<\/b>
\n70. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson<\/u>
\n71. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence<\/i>
\n72. American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
\n73. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler<\/b>
\n74. A Separate Peace by John Knowles<\/b>
\n75. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath<\/b>
\n76. The Red Pony by John Steinbeck<\/b>
\n77. Popol Vuh<\/b>
\n78. Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith<\/b>
\n79. Satyricon by Petronius<\/b>
\n80. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl<\/b>
\n81. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov<\/b>
\n82. Black Boy by Richard Wright<\/u>
\n83. Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu<\/i>
\n84. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut<\/b>
\n85. Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George<\/b> (and i have autographed copies of her “mountain” books)
\n86. Metaphysics by Aristotle<\/b>
\n87. Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/b>
\n88. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin<\/b>
\n89. Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse<\/b>
\n90. The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene<\/u>
\n91. Sanctuary by William Faulkner<\/b>
\n92. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
\n93. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
\n94. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig<\/b>
\n95. Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/b>
\n96. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud<\/b>
\n97. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood<\/b>
\n98. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown<\/b>
\n99. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess<\/b>
\n100. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
\n101. Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau<\/b>
\n102. Nana by Emile Zola
\n103. Chocolate War by Robert Cormier<\/b>
\n104. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
\n105. Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsy<\/b>n
\n106. Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein<\/b>
\n107. Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
\n108. Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark<\/b>
\n109. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes<\/b><\/p>\n

What is scary, is that more than half of what is bolded above, is sitting behind me in my bookshelf.
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