Intellectual Property Law

What Banned Books have you read?

By Kevin Heller

Google blog has a post on the American Library Association's Banned Books Week (Sept. 23-30) and Google has also created a Banned Books page (in conjunction with Book Search) to highlight novels that have been threatened or actually banned.

Related: Banned Books Readings in Philadelphia

Being challenged this year are To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee and Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (I saw the movie for both and also read the latter).

Apparently I've read many of these books (or seen the movie based on the novel in some cases) (after the jump)

Books I have read that have been challenged throughout the years:

* The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (both)
* Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
* The Lord of the Flies by William Golding (junior high)
* The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (movie only)
* The Color Purple by Alice Walker (movie only)
* Ulysses by James Joyce (started not finished)
* Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (movie only)
* Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (one of my favorite novels) (no relation)
* Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (junior high)
* The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (started not finished)
* Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (both)
* A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (both)
* One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (movie only)
* Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (movie only)
* The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
* Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (movie only)
* A Separate Peace by John Knowles (summer reading list in HS)
* The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
* Rabbit, Run by John Updike (brilliant)

Full post as published by Tech Law Advisor on September 13, 2006 (boomark / email).