Reading 'Banned' Books

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Apparently the ACLU keeps a list of books that somebody has tried to ban. These are the heavy hitters for THIS year. Can you believe it? How many of these have you read? Or maybe the better question is, how many of these have you misssed? My x's are below, marking the ones I've read (at one time or another).

_x_ The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
_x_ The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
_x_ The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
_x_ To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
_x_ The Color Purple by Alice Walker
__ Ulysses by James Joyce
_x_ Beloved by Toni Morrison
_x_ The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
_x_ 1984 by George Orwell
_x_ Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
_x_ Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
_x_ Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
_x_ Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
_x_ The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
_x_ As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
_x_ A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
_x_ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
_x_ Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
_x_ Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
_x_ Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
_x_ Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
__ Native Son by Richard Wright
_x_ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
__ Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
_x_ For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
_x_ The Call of the Wild by Jack London
_x_ Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
_x_ All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
_x_ The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
_x_ Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
_x_ A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
_x_ In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
__ The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
__ Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
__ Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
__ A Separate Peace by John Knowles
_x_ Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
__ Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
_x_ The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
_x_ Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
_x_ An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
_x_ Rabbit, Run by John Updike