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Banned Books Week 2011

Posted by majestic on September 26, 2011

Banned Books WeekIt’s Banned Books Week in America (Sept. 24-Oct. 1). Lest you think that America doesn’t ban books, the American Library Association has a long list of 11,000 challenged titles. At the head of the queue this year:

  1. And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson 
    Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group
  2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie 
    Reasons: offensive language, racism, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence
  3. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley 
    Reasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, and sexually explicit
  4. Crank, by Ellen Hopkins 
    Reasons: drugs, offensive language, and sexually explicit
  5. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins 
    Reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence
  6. Lush, by Natasha Friend 
    Reasons: drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
  7. What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones 
    Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group
  8. Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich 
    Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, and religious viewpoint
  9. Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie 
    Reasons:  homosexuality and sexually explicit
  10. Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer 
    Reasons: religious viewpoint and violence
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  • Anonymous

    Damn majestic, you stole my posting idea:P

    anyways good on for link this.

  • Anonymous

    Brave New World is unfortunate to see on this list. Twilight however…

  • DeepCough

    Goddamn you, ALA, do you realize what you have done?! You increased the
    sales of “Twilight” and made it cool to read in the process!

  • emperorreagan

    Brave New World and Nickle and Dimed are two books I anticipate reading as a family as soon as my kids are old enough to grasp the concepts.

  • http://www.ContraControl.com/ Zenc

    Even though I’m a little … ahem… above the suggested reading age for the _The Hunger Games_ , I really enjoyed the series.

    It was so amazingly subversive.

    Should make it required reading.

  • http://thefirstchurchofmutterhals.blogspot.com/ mutterhals

    I’m buying my boyfriend Johnny Got His Gun for banned book week.

  • Nuggett

    Naturally, they would ban a book that successfully demonizes the very dystopia they’re working so diligently to create.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/debra.buckner3 Debra Buckner

    WHat happened to the freedom of speech, wtf, how can the gov’t ban a book. As long as its set to the right age to read it there is no reason why ANY book should be BANNED!!!! This is BULL SHIT. I have 3 books on that list above, and to me this is all some kind of sick joke.

  • http://www.facebook.com/debra.buckner3 Debra Buckner

    WHAT HAPPENED TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH,  How the hell can the gov’t ban a book. I understand some books are not for all ages, but really. This is bull shit. They let drugs, violence, sex, and religious viewpoints, in the movies we watch and the stuff we see on TV, but if a book has it it can be banned. WTF!!!!! I have read 3 of the books on the list above and none of them are that bad. Its not like they are insturctions on how to kill another human without getting caught. THIS IS  WRONG!!!!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jamie-Cox/100001157042213 Jamie Cox

    Are they going to ban the Bible for “Religious View Point” and “Violence” also… I seem to remember both in that book… plus drug use and incest to add to the list.

  • Boobs

    The government haven’t banned anything, it’s just a list of books that a stupid society doesn’t like..

  • Ironaddict06

    Yes.  The Quran will replace the Bible to teach peace accross the western world.

  • anonymous

    CENSORSHIP. what our country doesn’t have any of. yet we have a banned book list?! my english teacher purposely makes us read books off the banned book list cuz he can always say that he didn’t know they were there. personally i dont think that this is fair. people always say don’t burn books it’s bad but a banned books list is the same. it all reminds me of Footloose the movie (old version not the crappy new 1 comeing out). I love to kill a mockingbird, it’s my favoritebook. HOW CULD THEY BAAN THAT BOOK????? it may not be on this list but there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. if u think the language is to strong or somethin thats ur opinion, but i think that people who read are old enough to make decisions about what they read. ANY1 AGREE 2 THAT????

  • anonymous

    they did