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Sept 25 thru Oct 1 is
Banned Books Week
here in the US. I love this event... Celebrate reading and books?
Heck Yeah!!
My goal last year was to get one book read from each of the yearly
Top 10 Lists.
I didn't quite make it, I am missing a book from 2005.
∞ 2001...
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
∞ 2002...
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
∞ 2003...
Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
∞ 2004...
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
∞ 2005...
foo.
∞ 2006...
And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
∞ 2007...
The Golden Compass, by Philip Pullman
∞ 2008...
His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman
∞ 2009...
The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
∞ 2010...
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
∞ 2011...
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
∞ 2012...
Beloved, by Toni Morrison
∞ 2013...
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
∞ 2014...
The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
I'm also missing a book from the 2015 Top 10 List. There are several
ones that look good: I Am Jazz, Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out,
Nasreen's Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan.
Also it would be nice if I didn't have to make books do double duty.
For instance, both 2002 and 2003 are Bridge to Terabithia, and 2010
and 2013 are Absolutely True.
I have not read any more from the
Frequently
Challenged Classics list, since last year. (Still at 11 of 46.)
I've read 16 books from the Top
100 from 2000 to 2009 and from the
100 most frequently challenged books: 1990 to 1999 I've read 12:
3. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, by Maya Angelou
8. Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson
11. The Giver, by Lois Lowry
16. A Day No Pigs Would Die, by Robert Newton Peck
17. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
23. A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine L'Engle
37. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
40. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
43. Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes
45. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
54. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
81. Carrie, by Stephen King
A new list this year is
Frequently
Challenged Books with Diverse Content. I've read 9 books on
this list, all mentioned above in the various other lists. But I
am definitely interested in reading more of these!
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