An interactive list of books

[garran]

The conceit is that each of these has at some point been successfully banned. Among the results is the reaffirmation that I'm not very well-read at all outside my usual genres. ^^;

At least I've heard of the majority of these.

bold if you've read it all
underline if you've read part
italicize if you own

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain (I found the dialect impenetrable,)
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (But I've read Foundation!)
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I read the first half of a two-volume set.)
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding (I intend never to read this; it sounds way too much like elementary school.)
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (Although I've seen the play.)
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmu
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (I never liked Roald Dahl. He seemed inordinately mean-spirited.)
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Emile Jean by Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Emile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (cola really likes this book, I think)
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Comments

...BUT I WAS LIKE NO WAY HITLER AND I KICKFLIPPED TO INDY GRIND ON THE CAT...

[codepoetica.livejournal.com]

I suppose I should just paste this into my TODO list. I've heard of maybe half of them, read far fewer. So I'll just include the notables. Which, for the plain-text items, means I've heard of them. And besides, uneducated commentary is fun, right?

#1 The Bible (Niftage)
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (I like the title, and know nothing else.)
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (I may have read all of this, but I'm not sure. At the very least, I don't remember it all.)
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Always wondered what this was about.)
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Same. Likely significant.)
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (I see a pattern here.)
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (Less than a chapter read, in Highschool I think.)
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker (Unread, but it's in RODTV, so I've seen a copy.)
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. (My Vines of Justive will defeat you!)
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell (My aunt Cathey keeps pushing me to read this)
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (After I finish 1984)
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (So damn good.)
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (Never heard of this, but Hemingway is l33t..)
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire (Kodachi will smite thee!)
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (Sounds like a cool title)
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Such a damn good read.)
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (mmm.. burn baby burn)
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (Although I've seen the Ranma1/2 episode.)
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Again, intruiging title.)
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (Wonder why this was was banned?)
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (This scared the crap out of me.)
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (For Mihoic reasons, I think this would be good to read. But again, only by title.)
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (Seen some of the filmwork, none of the book.)
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (o/' Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters, where the ragged people go/ Looking for the places only they would know o/')
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood (I thought this said Hand Maid May at first.)
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (So damn good, it makes me shiver.)
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (Quoted in We Didn't Start the Fire, so I guess I should research it in the name of history.)

[masamage.livejournal.com]

#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey (Although I've seen the Ranma1/2 episode.)

NANI? They have nothing at all in common! I am now honor-bound to hit you on the head with a mallet.

*gives chase*

I can enlighten you on some points

[garran.livejournal.com]

3. A famous spanish novel about a hero-aspirant who attacks windmills, believing them to be giants. The mother of the word 'quixotic'.

9. It's about a woman in colonial America who commits adultery and, as punishment, must prominently wear a scarlet 'A' for the rest of her life.

12. Something to do with American slavery.

13. Anne Frank was a (nonfictional) jewish girl who lived hidden in an attic for some significant portion of World War 2, and kept this diary. I'm pretty sure she dies at the end.

40. I thought it was interesting that what I think of as the reigning quadrumvirate of dystopia are all on here: The Handmaid's Tale, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, and Brave New World. I, of course, have only at this point read the first two.

82. Miho...? Oh! You mean because of the Elegant Gothic. Since this book is famously about a fellow who has a sexual obsession with a 13 year old girl, you had me vaguely worried for a moment there. (I hear it's very well written, though. All sorts of lines like, "If a violin string could ache, then I was that string".)

107. Not my favourite Heinlein book (that would be 'The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress'); when I first read it, I rather thought it was like a shallower, druggier retelling of Ursula K. LeGuin's 'The Dispossessed'. Has its own charm, though.


-Garran

Re: I can enlighten you on some points

[masamage.livejournal.com]

12. As I recall: It's a story about a slave named Uncle Tom, who was brutally ill-used and mistreated. It sparked a lot of anti-slavery outrage and influenced a lot of people's opinions leading up to the Civil War.