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Palin's Book Banning Wishlist

Since most of you are familiar with the Palin book banning business. Does anyone know where she acquired the list?   I can't believe she read any of the books. This is 2008, is it not?            

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time       by Madeleine L'Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying       by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous       Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales       by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph       Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques       Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel       Cohen
Daddy's Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by       Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by       Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter       Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by J ohn       Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy       Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve       Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry       Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the       Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire       by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies       by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas       Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird       Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night       Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
      
It's Okay if You Don't Love Me by Norma Klein
James and       the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H.       Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by       Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is       One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes s
More       Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by       James Lincoln Collier and Christopher
Collier
My House by Nikki       Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Night Chills by Dean       Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane       Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander       Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
One       Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by       Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women's Health       Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald       Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin       Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace       by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by       Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar R ice Burroughs
The       Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom       Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the       Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color       Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil's Alternative by Frederick       Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of       Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine       Paterson
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid       by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible       by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William       Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles       Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by       Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald       Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won't       by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by       William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the       Merriam-Webster
Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning       Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween
Symbols by Edna       Barth

Posted by Catherine on September 8, 2008
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While the list it turns out is fake, the fact that Palin *did* inquire about possibly banning books is true.

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/09/08/palin_books/index.html

Posted by: Karl | Sep 8, 2008 5:13:21 PM

yes, this is not the actual list, but it is representative and the mere thought reprehensibleQ

Posted by: catherine | Sep 25, 2008 4:07:57 PM

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