{"id":231,"date":"2006-07-22T01:41:02","date_gmt":"2006-07-22T01:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-03-22T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T15:32:44","slug":"banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/22\/banned-books\/","title":{"rendered":"banned books"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to the American Library Association every year hundreds of attempts are made to remove literary classics from schools and libraries. <\/p>\n

See: Banned Books and Why Censorship Makes Me Laugh<\/a><\/p>\n

The following novels have been challenged or banned<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

“To Kill a Mockingbird” — Harper Lee
\n“Lolita” — Vladmir Nabokov<\/strong>
\n“The Great Gatsby” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
\n“1984” — George Orwell
\n“The Sun Also Rises” — Ernest Hemingway
\n“The Grapes of Wrath” — John Steinbeck<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Beloved” — Toni Morrison
\n“Ulysses” — James Joyce
\n“Catcher in the Rye” — J.D. Salinger
\n“Catch-22” — Joseph Heller<\/p>\n

“As I Lay Dying” — William Faulkner<\/strong>
\n“Song of Solomon” — Toni Morrison<\/p>\n

“Their Eyes were Watching God” — Zora Neale Hurston
\n“Gone with the Wind” — Margaret Mitchell
\n“A Clockwork Orange” — Anthony Burgess<\/strong>
\n“A Farewell to Arms” — Ernest Hemingway
\n“Heart of Darkness” — Joseph Conrad
\n“Go Tell it on the Mountain” — James Baldwin
\n“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” — Ken Kesey<\/strong><\/p>\n

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” — Ernest Hemingway
\n“The Call of the Wild” — Jack London
\n“Lady Chatterley’s Lover” — DH Lawrence
\n“All the King’s Men” — Robert Penn Warren
\n“The Jungle” — Upton Sinclair<\/p>\n

“Satanic Verses” — Salman Rushdie<\/strong>
\n“Invisible Man” — Ralph Ellison
\n“In Cold Blood” — Truman Capote<\/strong>
\n“Sons and Lovers” — DH Lawrence<\/p>\n

“Naked Lunch” — William S. Burroughs
\n“A Separate Peace” — John Knowles<\/strong>
\n“Cat’s Cradle” — Kurt Vonnegut
\n“Women in Love” — DH Lawrence
\n“The Naked and the Dead” – Norman Mailer<\/p>\n

“An American Tragedy” — Theodore Dreiser
\n“Rabbit, Run” — John Updike
\n“Tropic of Cancer” — Henry Miller
\n“Native Son” — Richard Wright<\/p>\n

My advice: start reading. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to the American Library Association every year hundreds of attempts are made to remove literary classics from schools and libraries. See: Banned Books and Why Censorship Makes Me Laugh The following novels have been challenged or banned. “To Kill a Mockingbird” — Harper Lee “Lolita” — Vladmir Nabokov “The Great Gatsby” — F. Scott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1581,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}