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A list of banned books from Banned Book month.

If you've read the whole book, bold it.  If you've read part of the book, italicize it.  If you have the book but haven't read it put a ***

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[pphi]

Unfortunately the entire list is too long to include as a comment.

Given the number of unfinished books, it seems like I still have a lot of work to do.

1. The Bible
2. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ***
3. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
5. Arabian nights
6. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain ***
7. Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
8. Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
10. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
11.The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
13. Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank ***
14. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
17. Dracula by Bram Stoker
20. Essays by Michel de Montaigne
22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
25. Ulysses by James Joyce
26. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
27. Animal Farm by George Orwell
28. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
29. Candide by Voltaire
31. Analects by Confucius
32. Dubliners by James Joyce
37. Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
39. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence ***
40. Brave New

[futurusquondam]

Is there anywhere that will tell you why these books were banned? Cause seriously? A wrinkle in time? Julie of the Wolves, James and the Giant Peach? Where did I miss the secret big gay jewish witchcraft In Julie of the Wolves?

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I know. The list is surprising. I just assume that even if there wasn't gay witchcraft someone THOUGHT there was.
Here is where I found the list:
http://community.livejournal.com/bookish/1246642.html