Banned Books Week

Libraries do battle over controversial books. Sometimes, people want to ban a book based on their personal and relgious beliefs. Sometimes a book simply offends them.

I present my list of some of the top banned and challenged books of all time.

As the third book in a series, TTYL; TTFN; L8R, G8R was published under a cloud of suspicion, its predecessors both having made the "most frequenlty banned books" list in the years they were released.

Many of these books are ones that we read every day- Twilight, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Catcher in the Rye. In the last 9 years there have been a challenge to 4,312 books by parents, teachers, and school administrators.

The 28th Annual Banned Books Week will be held September 26th through October 3rd and will involve special events and displays at libraries and bookstores across the nation.

Read a banned book for Banned Books Week

Over the years, many books have been banned from schools and libraries. But whose job is it to decide what we, and our children, can read?

Although it receives little press coverage, book censorship of all kinds, including book burning, continues today. In fact, there have been reports that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin attempted to ban books from the public library when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

A look at the shifting tide of intolerance affecting the availability of a great American novel.

Book censorship was alive and well in the last decade. As a society we’re still easily offended and willing to trade in someone else’s right to read to appease our personal standards and moral values.

Yup, I'm a card carrying "book-banner," alright. When I arrive at the local library in my pickup truck, the librarians tremble and hide everything except the American Legion Magazines.

The "banned book" controversy is not exactly a "banned book" controversy.