Favorite Banned/Challenged Book 2000-2009 Giveaway WINNER!

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! :)

Giveaway: Favorite Banned/Challenged Book 2000-2009

With Banned Books Week coming to a close, I thought the perfect giveaway to kick off this Halloween celebration would be for a book of choice from the most banned/challenged books of 2000-2009.

Though I have a few all time favorites on this list, my choice would be (if I didn’t already own it lol) A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle. It’s a book that transported me to another world, and made me want to get lost in her other books as well. It got me interested in reading again. I read it in school, and couldn’t be more glad I did. It meant a lot to me, and had a main character I could easily relate to.

So, what book would you choose? Would it be one of the ones that have been all over the blogosphere lately like Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson or a classic like To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee?

To enter:

• See my previous Banned Books Week post with the full list of Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books of 2000-2009.
• Then come back here, leave a comment w/ your name, choice of book & author, & email address.
• Contest is open internationally wherever the Book Depository delivers, for ages 13 & up.
• Contest ends October 8th, 11:59pm CST.

Banned Books Week: Top 100 of 2000-2009

As part of Banned Books Week, I thought I’d list the top 100 banned/challenged books of 2000-2009. Ones that I’ve read are in red. Lol. :)

Top 100 banned/challenged books: 2000-2009:

1. Harry Potter (series). J.K. Rowling
2. Alice series. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
3. The Chocolate War. Robert Cormier
4. And Tango Makes Three. Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell
5. Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck
6. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Maya Angelou
7. Scary Stories (series). Alvin Schwartz
8. His Dark Materials (series). Philip Pullman
9. TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series). Myracle, Lauren
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower.  Stephen Chbosky
11. Fallen Angels. Walter Dean Meyers
12. It’s Perfectly Normal. Robie Harris
13. Captain Underpants (series). Dav Pilkey
14. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Mark Twain
15. The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
16. Forever. Judy Blume
17. The Color Purple. Alice Walker
18. Go Ask Alice. Anonymous
19. Catcher in the Rye. J.D. Salinger
20. King and King. Linda de Haan
21. To Kill A Mockingbird. Harper Lee
22. Gossip Girl (series). Cecily von Ziegesar
23. The Giver. Lois Lowry
24. In the Night Kitchen. Maurice Sendak
25. Killing Mr. Griffen. Lois Duncan
26. Beloved. Toni Morrison
27. My Brother Sam Is Dead. James Lincoln Collier
28. Bridge To Terabithia. Katherine Paterson
29. The Face on the Milk Carton. Caroline B. Cooney
30. We All Fall Down. Robert Cormier
31. What My Mother Doesn’t Know. Sonya Sones
32. Bless Me, Ultima. Rudolfo Anaya
33. Snow Falling on Cedars. David Guterson
34. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things. Carolyn Mackler
35. Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging. Louise Rennison
36. Brave New World. Aldous Huxley
37. It’s So Amazing. Robie Harris
38. Arming America. Michael Bellasiles
39. Kaffir Boy. Mark Mathabane
40. Life is Funny.  E.R. Frank
41. Whale Talk. Chris Crutcher
42. The Fighting Ground. Avi
43. Blubber. Judy Blume
44. Athletic Shorts. Chris Crutcher
45. Crazy Lady. Jane Leslie Conly
46. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
47. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby, by George Beard
48. Rainboy Boys, by Alex Sanchez
49. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey
50. The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini
51. Daughters of Eve. Lois Duncan
52. The Great Gilly Hopkins. Katherine Paterson
53. You Hear Me? Betsy Franco
54. The Facts Speak for Themselves. Brock Cole
55. Summer of My German Soldier. Bette Green
56. When Dad Killed Mom. Julius Lester
57. Blood and Chocolate. Annette Curtis Klause
58. Fat Kid Rules the World. K.L. Going
59. Olive’s Ocean. Kevin Henkes
60. Speak. Laurie Halse Anderson
61. Draw Me A Star,. Eric Carle
62. The Stupids (series). Harry Allard
63. The Terrorist. Caroline B. Cooney
64. Mick Harte Was Here. Barbara Park
65. The Things They Carried. Tim O’Brien
66. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry. Mildred Taylor
67. A Time to Kill. John Grisham
68. Always Running. Luis Rodriguez
69. Fahrenheit 451. Ray Bradbury
70. Harris and Me. Gary Paulsen
71. Junie B. Jones (series). Barbara Park
72. Song of Solomon. Toni Morrison
73. What’s Happening to My Body Book. Lynda Madaras
74. The Lovely Bones. Alice Sebold
75. Anastasia (series). Lois Lowry
76. A Prayer for Owen Meany.  John Irving
77. Crazy:  A Novel. Benjamin Lebert
78. The Joy of Gay Sex. Dr. Charles Silverstein
79. The Upstairs Room. Johanna Reiss
80. A Day No Pigs Would Die. Robert Newton Peck
81. Black Bo. Richard Wright
82. Deal With It! Esther Drill
83. Detour for Emmy. Marilyn Reynolds
84. So Far From the Bamboo Grove. Yoko Watkins
85. Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes. Chris Crutcher
86. Cut. Patricia McCormick
87. Tiger Eyes. Judy Blume
88. The Handmaid’s Tale. Margaret Atwood
89. Friday Night Lights. H.G.Bissenger
90. A Wrinkle in Time. Madeline L’Engle
91. Julie of the Wolves. Jean Graighead George
92. The Boy Who Lost His Face. Louis Sachar
93. Bumps in the Night. Harry Allard
94. Goosebumps (series). R.L. Stine
95. Shade’s Children. Garth Nix
96. Grendel. John Gardner
97. The House of the Spirits,. Isabel Allende
98. I Saw Esau. Iona Opte
99. Are You There, God?  It’s Me, Margaret. Judy Blume
100. America: A Novel. Frank, E.R.

 

ALA also has a list from the Radcliffe Publishing Course’s top 100 novels of the 20th century. At least 46 of these have been challenged or banned, maybe more. Here’s the list. Confirmed challenged/banned titles are in bold. Once again the ones I have read are in red.

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner
11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web, by E.B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, by James Joyce
15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness, by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne
23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp, by John Irving
38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View, by E.M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List, by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce
45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway, by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia, by Willa Cather
52. Howards End, by E.M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey, by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz, by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom!, by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India, by E.M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome, by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find, by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando, by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles
68. Light in August, by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel, by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time, by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise, by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers!, by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells
86. Lord Jim, by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians, by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop, by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman, by John Fowles
94. Babbitt, by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread, by E.M. Forster
99. Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children, by Salman Rushdie

 

Several of these are sitting on my TBR bookshelf waiting patiently for me. A lot of the others are on my wishlist.

 

Read all about Banned Book Week (Sept 25th-Oct 2nd) HERE.

 

How many of these have you read? Are there any you really want to read?

Banned Books Week ~ September 25th-October 2nd

There’s not a lot that goes on that I get myself involved in online, but here is one cause I must speak out for, though I’m sure you’ve heard plenty about it already on other book blogs.

It’s Banned Books Week September 25th-October 2nd, and man did the controversy start flying before the week even started. Thanks to Scroggins and his opinions, which he has shared with the masses, on Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and several other books, a huge response has occurred among book bloggers. I personally haven’t read Speak yet or the others mentioned, but don’t worry, I now intend to do so. Good job Scroggins!

The wonderful opinions on the books from all the book bloggers I know has me itching to get my hands on them. If you want to know more about what was said, Laurie Halse Anderson wrote a response on her blog about Speak, Scroggins (and his referral of rape as “soft-core pornography”, yes he really did) and ways to get involved in supporting books and speaking out against censorship. Jackie Morse Kessler wrote a very informative post as well, right HERE.

Are you like me and now interested in reading Speak or know someone else who is? There are a few contests going on for it and other banned/challenged books:

• Mundie Moms- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Burned by Ellen Hopkins, Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler, and The Absolutely-True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie. Enter by September 26, 2010. (International)
• Book Faery- 2 copies of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Contest ends September 30, 2010. (International where the Book Depository ships)
• Sarah's Book Reviews- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Contest ends September 30, 2010. (International)
• LA FEMME READERS- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Contest ends October 1, 2010. (International)
• The Bookish Type- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson and Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler. Enter by October 2, 2010. (International where Book Depository delivers)
• Bea’s Book Nook- 2 copies of Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson & choice of any book from the ALA’s list of banned and challenged books up to $10US. Enter by October 2, 2010. (?)
• The Bookologist- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Enter by October 3, 2010. (International)
• The Book Swarm- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, TTYL by Lauren Myracle, Olive’s Ocean by Kevin Henkes, and Athletic Shorts by Chris Crutcher. Enter by October 3, 2010. (Intenational)
• Wicked Awesome Books- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler. Enter by October 3, 2010. (International wherever the Book Depository ships)
• Mindful Musings- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, and Twenty Boy Summer by Sarah Ockler. Enter by October 3, 2010. (International wherever the Book Depository ships)

Find more at Mindful Musings post about Banned Books & Speak w/ links to contests, posts by authors & bloggers, and articles.

 

Keep updated on Twitter through twitter feed #SpeakLoudly

 

Steph Su Reads is having a Banned Books Reading Challenge.

 

Check out Banned Book Week Events in your state! http://www.bannedbooksweek.org/events.php

 

There doesn’t seem to be much going on locally for me, but a local run website has a good, informative article with stats and the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books of 2000-2009. You can check that out HERE. They also have been posting info on banned books almost every day throughout September. Go HERE if you want to check that out.

 

What do you all think of all this? What is your favorite banned/challenged book?