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.
Thanks for the chance to win! My book of choice would be One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
ReplyDeleteTina
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So much banned books in the list. I really can't understand why they have to ban these books, they're all amazing!
ReplyDeleteMy book of choice: The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things. Carolyn Mackler
Kai
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I have seen quite a number of reviews about your choice and I think I would like to read that as well as I have not read any of her books.
ReplyDeleteSo my choice is also A Wrinkle in Time. Madeline L’Engle.
Thanks for the giveaway and for opening it to worldwide entries.
Carol Thompson
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Hard to pick so many to choose from but I think I'd have to go with Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging. Louise Rennison. It sounds like such a fun read! :)
ReplyDeleteMy choice is also A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle. Thank you for making this contest international! :D
ReplyDeleteGiada M.
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So many good books on the list... I'd have to go with Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, because so many people have recommended it to me.
ReplyDeleteAmy
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OMG! I remember reading A Wrinkle in Time and loving it. I would choose that one. I think my son would enjoy it.
ReplyDeletelizzi0915 at aol dot com
I would like to read we all fall down by robert cormeir.
ReplyDeletetwoofakind12@yahoo.com
A Wrinkle in Time is a classic. I love all of the Murry-O'Keefe books.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway.
smccar1 at hotmail dot com
Definitely To Kill a Mockingbird. It hurts my heart to think of that book being banned anywhere. Thanks for the attention you've given to Banned Books Week. (Email in profile.)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway. So many good books to choose from. It was hard to pick. I chose Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
ReplyDeleteGoodness, what a great list. I've read some of those. I'd love to win "A Prayer for Owen Meany."
ReplyDeletecruzed at knoxnews dot com
Tough one! So many good books. I think I'll also go with "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson. I've been hearing a lot about it lately.
ReplyDeletethefeministtexican (at) gmail (dot) com
I'd love to win "Blood and Chocolate" by Annette Curtis Klause! =)
ReplyDeleteJamila de Godoy Pavelqueires
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Very true! Really like to read such books, i start with these one - bestsellers for 2010, i found them here. I am very new in this Genere but i am really excited! Go check on this website, really nice.
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My pick is Go Ask Alice by Anonymous.
ReplyDeleteSkk25@aol.com
i can't believe some of these books they banned - it seems that most of the ones that had the most impact on me in school are on the list!
ReplyDeletei would choose speak because i've heard so much about it but haven't read it yet...
k_sunshine1977 at yahoo dot com
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the giveaway!
Michelle
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When I look at those banned lists I'm always so surprised at how many I have read.
ReplyDeleteI would chose
Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Meyers
eva.s.black[@]gmail[.]com
Thanks for the great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteIt was hard to pick just one. lol I'm going with Cut by Patricia McCormick.
rae_reads@hotmail.com
love banned books.
ReplyDeleteThe Perks of Being a Wallflower. Stephen Chbosky
lauren
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
Thank you for the oppotunity to win one of so many great books!
ReplyDeleteI choose: Blood and Chocolate. Annette Curtis Klause
mysteriousredrose(at)yahoo(dot)com
So many great books! ^^ My choice would be The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. Thanks for the chance! c:
ReplyDeletegrace
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Thanks for this great opportunity! :)
ReplyDeleteMy choice would be Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, because it is one of my favouritest books ever! And I lent mine to a friend who has decided she loves it so much she isn't going to give it back :D
lovereadiingx[at]gmail[dot]com
Thanks so much for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy choice would be Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. Because I have heard so many great things about this book!
http://lusbookblog.blogspot.com/
:O huge surprise! didn't know so many books are challenged!!! D:
ReplyDeleteI guess if I win, I would choose Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison. :D
Thank you :D
feeyonachan at gmail dot com
It's so sad and strange that so many books should be banned in the USA.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the opportunity to get one of them and see for ourselves how scandalous (*rolls eyes*) they are!
I would choose: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
yvantis@hotmail.com
Thanks for the great giveaway Amanda!
ReplyDeleteSo sad to see so many amazing books on that list!
My choice would be Beloved by Toni Morrison, heard great things about it!
Thank you!
stella.exlibris (at) gmail (dot) com
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ReplyDeleteThe Chocolate War. Robert Cormier
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regards,
This is very cool!
ReplyDeleteTTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R (series). Myracle, Lauren
anyone of them,
goddessbloom@hotmail.com
I'm just surprised at the books on the list. Harry Potter...really???
ReplyDeleteI would go with Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson.
Thanks
heatwave96(at)hotmail.com
some pretty unexpected titles there, captain underpants? lol
ReplyDeletehmm, if I were to choose, I would like to have the first book of His Dark Materials (series) by Philip Pullman please!
thanks!
ninefly(at)gmail(dot)com
I would pick A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams.
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Angus, Thongs, and Full Frontal Snogging. Louise Rennison
ReplyDeleteRaelena
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