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Old 26th November 2001, 00:56   #1
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Here is a list I got from my Enlgish teacher of the 50 most banned books in the 90's:

1) Impessions - edited by Jack Booth, et al.
2) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
3) The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
4) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
5) The Chocolate War - Robert Cormier
6) Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson
7) Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
8) More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark - Alvin Schwartz
9) The Witches - Roald Dahl
10) Daddy's Roomate - Michael Willhoite
11) Curses, Hexes, and Spells - Daniel Cohen
12) A Wrinkle in Time - Madeling L'Engle
13) How to Eat Fried Worms - Thomas Rockwell
14) Blubber - Judy Blume
15) Revolting Rhymes - Roald Dahl
16) Halloween ABC's - Ever Merriam
17) A Day No Pigs Would Die - Robert Peck
18) Heather Has Two Mommies - Leslea Newman
19) Christine - Stephen King
20) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
21) Fallen Angels - Walter Myers
22) The New Teenage Body Book - Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
23) Little Red Riding Hood - Brothers Grimm
24) The Headless Cupid - Zilpha Snyder
25) Night Chills - Dean Koontz
26) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
27) A Separate Peace - John Knowles
28) Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut
29) The Color Purple - Alice Walker
30) James and the Giant Peach - Roald Dahl
31) The Learning Tree - Gordon Parks
32) The Witches of Worm - Zilpha Snyder
33) My Brother Sam is Dead - James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
34) The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
35) Cujo - Stephen King
36) The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson
37) The Figure in the Shadows - John Bellairs
38) On My Honors - Marion Dane Bauer
39) In the Night Kitchen - Maurice Sendak
40) Grendel - John Champlin Gardner
41) I Have to Go - Robert Munsch
42) Annie on My Mind - Nancy Garden
43) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain
44) The Pigman - Paul Zindel
45) My House - Nikki Giovanni
46) Then Again, Maybe I Won't - Judy Blume
47) The Handmaiden's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48) Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of Halloween Symbols - Edna Barth
49) One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
50) Scary Stories 3: More Tales To Chill Your Bones - Alvin Schwartz

Now I don't know about you guys, but this list is pathedic. Halloween ABC's?! Dear God, these people have no lives, I swear...
I don't know about all you, but I now want to buy all these books just to spite those morons.

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