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As part of the posts this week in support of — and in the futile hope of eliminating the need for — Banned Books Week, here’s one opinion on 50 banned books everyone should read.
The list is broken down by categories and while I may not necessarily agree with a particular book’s placement in […]
Think the fact a book is a classic or widely respected grants it protection from book banners? Think again.
In 1998, the Radcliffe Publishing Course, now the Columbia Publishing Course at Columbia University, announced its selections for the 100 best English language novels of the 20th Century. According to the American Library Association, nearly half […]
As the first in this week’s series of posts in honor of Banned Books Week, which runs today through October 3, I thought it appropriate to post the entirety of the manifesto written by Ellen Hopkins for the event. Ironically, as I noted a week ago, someone is trying to get one of her […]
As we hit the middle of Banned Books Week, here’s a round-up of various items related to it:
Take the Banned Books Quiz. I scored 8 out of 13, which prompted the following response: “Rather ignorant, I’m afraid. You’re clearly reading in slavish obedience to the censors. Are you going to be voting for Sarah […]
For this week’s Tuesday Thingers, I’ve copied the list of the most-challenged books of the 1990s straight from the ALA website. Highlight what you’ve read, and italicize what you have in your [Library Thing] library.
Because many of the books are aimed at school-age children, I haven’t read and don’t own a lot of […]
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