One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Slaughterhouse Five
In Cold Blood
Rabbit, Run
Moby Dick
Canterbury Tales
Captain Underpants
The Kite Runner
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Fahrenheit 451
Moll Flanders
A Farewell to Arms
I'd be interested in hearing what banned books are on your list so I can add to mine. I didn't get much response to this request last year, but, forever the optimist, I ask again. I know some of you are voracious readers. So please contribute.
We are living in a time when ignorance runs rampant in much of the country. Indeed, it often seems glorified. Reading, in fact learning of any sort, is under attack by forces - Republicans, evangelicals if you want to be specific - who seek to maintain power by discrediting education.
"East coast elites" is supposedly an insult. Higher education, Republicans believe, is a threat to America, a survey tells us. We hear claims of fake news and hoaxes and Fox News is full of outright lies. It's all nonsense, created and disseminated out of fear. Fear of others, of the unknown, of feeling inferior, of discovering that long-held beliefs were simply not true.
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