Banned Book Week may have come to a close a week ago, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t still support all the wonderful authors and books that have been banned/challenged over the years all year round! I’m determined to read a few of these over the next year.
Would you like to know who won their very own banned/challenged book? I’ll get to that in a minute. First, lol, here are the books that you all chose from the top 100 banned/challenged books 2000-2009. :)
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (6)
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (4)
- Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison (3)
- Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause (2)
- A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Cut by Patricia McCormick
- Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers
- Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
- The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
- The Golden Compass by Philip Pullman
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series) by Lauren Myracle
- We All Fall Down by Robert Cormeir
Not really a surprise that Speak was the top choice. It’s been all over the place lately. I want to read it too. I think I might have caused the 2nd choice book. Lol!
Now on to the part you all actually want me to get to…the WINNER!!! The winner of their choice of banned/challenged book from THIS LIST, sent via the Book Depository, is
Amy!
who chose
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
You are allowed to change your mind when you email me your info if there is another book you wish to read, you aren’t stuck with the one you picked. :)
You have 72 hours to email me back after I email you or a new winner will be chosen.
Congrats Amy and thank you all for participating! :)
1 comment:
Congratulations Amy!
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