Banned Books Week

 September 21-27, 2014
Celebrating the freedom to read for 32 years

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Banned Books Week is sponsored annually by the American Library Association, the American Booksellers Association and others to ensure that no one person or group dictates what others can read.

Click on any book cover to find out why the book is "dangerous"

Call of the Wild

Harry Potter Series

 

 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings


 

The Diary of Anne Frank

Lord of The Rings

American Heritage Dictionary

 

Working

The House of the Spirits

Daddy's Roommate

 


 

The Origin of Species

Holy Bible

So Far from the Bamboo Grove
 

Fahrenheit 451

Uncle Tom's Cabin
 

Olive's Ocean

 

How to Eat Fried Worms
 

Private Parts

A Clockwork Orange

Maurice
 

The Drowning of Stephan Jones

The Golden Compass

Ordinary People

And Tango Makes Three

Twilight

 

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian

 The Giver

The Fault in Our Stars

     

 

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More Challenged or Banned Books


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Most Frequently Challenged books of the 21st Century (2001-2011)

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As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
--
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

 

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

--Nadine Gordimer

 

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

--Clare Booth Luce

 

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

--Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter

 

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is the hallmark of an authoritarian regime.

--U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart

 

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

--Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

 

What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

--Salman Rushdie

 

Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much

--Walter Lippman

 

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