Banned/Challenged Books

This challenge is probably going to be hardest for me. As much as I try to be a thoughtful, intellectual reader, he truth is that I read for pleasure. It takes me a very long time to get through a book that makes me think about the world. However, I also want to stretch myself, so this year I am going to try to read several banned books. I’m going for the easy part of the challenge: 12 books by 12/31/12. That’s one book a month – no biggie, right?

Here are the books I want to read (this is doubly good for me, because many of these are books I already own!):

1. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
3. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut – Read 10 January (review)
4. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
6. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
7. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut – Read 15 January (review)
8. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
9. a Goosebumps book (since my mom never wanted me to read them!)
10. The Fighting Ground by Avi
11. Blubber by Judy Blume
12. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

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