Libraries are dangerous.
They contain ideas, thoughts, characters that make you realize you're not alone in your struggles...
In honor of Banned Book Week, here's a few of my favorite banned/challenged books from the ALA listing, in no particular order. What banned books have you read and enjoyed?
- The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
- Animal Farm, by George Orwell
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
- Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
- Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
- A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
- In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
- Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
- My Sister's Keeper, by Jodi Picoult
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
- Forever, by Judy Blume
- Harry Potter (series), by J.K. Rowling
- Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
- Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey
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