Reading 1001 discussion

In honor of Banned Book Week (October 1-7), we will have a book challenge.

https://bannedbooksweek.org

You may read one book from the list of banned 1001 books. This challenge runs from October 1 to October 31. Scoring 3 points for one book.

1984 by George Orwell
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Ulysses by James Joyce
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Animal Farm by George Orwell
The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Native Son by Richard Wright
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence
Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Here is the link on why the books were banned. https://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/f...

We are going to end up with a lot to read in October. Since you are going for two special events in one month are people wanting to drop 2 choices for botm? Or keep on with 2 choices and 2 special event books?

Banned book week is usually in September but this year it is October. We did 2 BOTM and 2 Buddy Reads in July and it worked fine. I think it will be okay just more options for people.

Wow, I must like reading banned books. This year there are only 5 left on this list I have not read yet. Of those unfinished titles, I own Gone With the Wind and Lolita, so I may read one of those for October.

Banned Book Tour
https://www.theguardian.com/world/202...

I read Song of Solomon for this challenge. I gave it 4 stars. Here is why it was banned.


Song of Solomon Challenged, but retained, in the Columbus, OH schools (1993). The complainant believed that the book contains language degrading to blacks, and is sexually explicit.

Removed from required reading lists and library shelves in the Richmond County, GA. School District (1994) after a parent complained that passages from the book are "filthy and inappropriate."

Challenged at the St. Johns County Schools in St. Augustine, FL (1995). Removed from the St. Mary's County, MD schools' approved text list (1998) by the superintendent, overruling a faculty committee recommendation. Complainants referred to the novel as "filth," "trash," and "repulsive."

Reinstated in the Shelby, MI school Advanced Placement English curriculum (2009), but parents are to be informed in writing and at a meeting about the book’s content. Students not wanting to read the book can choose an alternative without academic penalty. The superintendent had suspended the book from the curriculum.

I've read all of the listed books previously, but notice these are all books banned at one point in the US specifically. Is it cool if I find one that has been banned or censored elsewhere for this?

Amanda wrote: "I've read all of the listed books previously, but notice these are all books banned at one point in the US specifically. Is it cool if I find one that has been banned or censored elsewhere for this?"

Yes! Sounds good to me.