Banned Books Week

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2007 Banned Books Week: Ahoy! Treasure Your Freedom to Read and Get Hooked on a Banned BookIt’s Banned Books Week.

Go read one.

There’s a great list here of the top 100 banned ones lately. (I’ve read 28 of them… unless you break apart the series, in which case it’s more).

  4 Responses to “Banned Books Week”

  1. Cosmik says:
    October 2, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    Where’s Waldo?

    But…but…it’s a classic!

  2. Inhibitor says:
    October 3, 2007 at 8:59 am

    I feel like a slacker…I’ve only read 14 of the books on that list.

    And let’s face it…Where’s Waldo teaches young children that, every time they’re in a large crowd, they should look for a guy in a red-and-white striped shirt with glasses and go to him.

    Either that, or the glasses reminded someone too much of Harry Potter’s, in which case Waldo is EEEEEVIL.

    /rolleyes

  3. moo says:
    October 6, 2007 at 9:32 am

    That list is a nice mix of timeless classics, harmless children’s stories (where’s waldo??) and sex-education books.

    If I had kids, I would want them to read about half of the books on that list by the time they were 15 or so. I wish all those censors had more taste!

  4. Andy Havens says:
    October 7, 2007 at 1:23 pm

    OCLC published, in 2005, the list of books that were both ever banned, and on the OCLC 1000 (the top 1,000 books held by OCLC libraries worldwide). Link is here: http://www.oclc.org/research/top1000/banned.htm

    Click through on any of those books to find one in a library near you.

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