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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 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
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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