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Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:17:19 +0200
From: Anny Ballardini <anny.ballardini@GMAIL.COM>
Reply-To: Theory and Writing <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
To: WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu
Subject: Palin

Here is a list of books that Sarah Palin tried to have banned from the
Wasilla Public Library, according to the official minutes of the Library
Board. When she was unsuccessful at having these books banned, she tried to
have the librarian fired.

  As many of you will notice, it is a hit parade for book burners.

  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 Geoffrey 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 John 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
   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 Rice 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

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Courtesy of R. Matter

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