Banned Book Tag - Irina got me!

Here is the deal, these are some 110 top banned books. Bold what you've read, italicize what you've read part of.

#1 The Bible
I read most of the Bible by choice - not at the request of a religious institution. I enjoyed many of the stories although I found parts to be very mean and gory. I loved the psalms..just lovely and enjoyed the different styles of writing the authors used.

#2 Huckleberry Finn by MarkTwain
Loved it.

.#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Haven't read it although I'm aware of the story.

#4 The Koran
Nope, haven't read it.

#5 Arabian Nights
Don't think I read all but did read some and had some of it read to me as a child.

#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Read this more than once. One time for pleasure and on reread for an English class.

#7 Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

Too young to appreciate it when I read it.

#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Read this in high school - should read it again.

#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yes and I adored it.

#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Yes, and loved it. Whitman spoke of sexuality in his "Children of Adam"(Enfans d'Adam) and "Calamus" clusters - ergo censorship. (Answer to Irina's question on her blog.)

#11 Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
Parts of it but not all.

#12 Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
I had trouble with the dialect, but just like Shipping News, after a while I stopped seeing the dialect and started to hear the story.

#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Read it and re-read it and cried each time.

#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
I know I read it but I don't remember much.

.#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
Dickens isn't a favorite of mine.

.#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Had to read it for English course...long!

#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
No... but I read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein!

#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
No... just never came my way

#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
Great book.

#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
No - sounds dreary.

#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Yes, loved it.

#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

Nope.

#23 Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Yes, for school...don't remember much yet again...

#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
Some not all.

#25 Ulysses by James Joyce

My husaband just finished it after two or three previous attempts. I tried too - now I feel like I read it because we discussed it daily - what he'd read and how he felt about it.

#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
No.

#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
Read it a long time ago, but a great read.

#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
Read it a long time ago, but a great read also.

#29 Candide by Voltaire

I read it in French which means I don't remember a thing about it (probably didn't understand much of it) except I got a leather bound edition from Alliance Francais for excellence in French which shows they made a big mistake awarding me the book!

#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
A favorite.

.#31 Analects by Confucius
No.

#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
No...

#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Loved it.

#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
I like the Nick Adams stories better

#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
No.

#36 Capital by Karl Marx
No, husband read it and shared his thoughts, read passages to me like Ulysses.

#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
No.

.#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Yes, need to read it again someday.

.#39 Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
Found hidden in my father's sock drawer - wonderful.

.#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Class assignment and I loved it.

.#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
Class assignment and I hated it.

#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
Loved it.

#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Depressing - glad it was over at the last page.

.#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
No.

.#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
No.

.#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Freaked me out.

.#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
No.

48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
I liked it.

#49 Jude
the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
No.
.#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Can't remember so I'll say no.

#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Saw the movie but that doesn't count.

.#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
Kant bear Kant.

#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
I loved it and loved the movie...

#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
Nope.

.#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Sad kind of funny book.

#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
Not a favorite

#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
Terrific book.

#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Why didn't he write more?

#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
No... .

#60 The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
No.

#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Yes, but what can I remember? nothing.

#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Yes, but see above.

#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Yes, loved it.

#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Great book.

.#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
No

#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
No,

.#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
No, but on my list of future reads.

#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
No.

#69 The Talmud
No, but I would love to be able to read it.

#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
Did I or didn't I read this? Seems like yes but I'm not sure.

#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Nope.

#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
Yes, I love Lawrence

#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Yes.

#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
No.

#75 A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Another did I or didn't I.

#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Yes.

#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
No.

#78 Popol Vuh
No.

#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
No.

#80 Satyricon by Petronius
No.

#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
No.

.#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Sock drawer find...wonderful as was Ada.

#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
Yes.

#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
No.

85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
My favorite Vonnegut.

#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
No.
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
No, I think not...read some Aristotle in a philosophy class.

#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Read some Wilder.

#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
No.

#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
No, though I'm looking at it on my book shelf.

.#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
Can't remember, have read some Greene.

#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
No Faulkner for me.

.#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
See above.

#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
No.

#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
Ditto

.#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No.

#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
But what did I understand?

.#98 Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Enjoyed it.

#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
No.

#100 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Yes, after I saw the movie.

#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
No.

#102 Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
No.

#103 Nana by Émile Zola
Yes, during my intellectual period ;-)

#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
No.

#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Maybe, I did read some Baldwin.

?#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No.

#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
No.

.#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
No.

#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
No.

#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Loved it.

Phew -- I wouldn't do this meme for many people but Irina tagged me so I did it.

I won't tag anyone...but if you do it let me know!