The Most Commonly Challanged Books in the US

[Butterscotch]

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How many have you read? Were any of the school assignments?

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Here are the ones I have read;
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (school assignment)
Anastasia Again!
Beloved
Bridge to Terabithia
The Call of the Wild (required reading)
Carrie
The Catcher in the Rye (required reading)
Christine
The Color Purple
Cujo
The Dead Zone
Deenie
Earth's Children series (did a book report on the first one)
Go Ask Alice
Gone with the Wind
Goosebumps (series) (not all of them though)
The Great Gatsby (required reading)
Harry Potter (series)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (required reading)
James and the Giant Peach (teacher read this aloud to us in 2nd grade)
Lord of the Flies
Of Mice and Men (required reading)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (required reading)
Ordinary People (required reading)
The Outsiders
Scary Stories (series)
A Separate Peace (required reading)
A Wrinkle in Time (required reading)

[BorderWolf]

The only ones I have read.

James and the Giant Peach. Not a school assignment. I just read it since my mom got me a copy to read to me as a bedtime story. I reread it years later for the fun of it.

Harry Potter (series), these were not around when I was in school.

If you can count the movie version of Gone with the Wind as a visual book, then I have read it.

[Snake]

I've read:

A Clockwork Orange (Still haven't finished it since I got distracted, but I've seen the movie)
The Face on the Milk Carton (For school, but not required. Worst book ever.)
The Giver (Required.)
Goosebumps (Some of them)
Harry Potter (First one)
A Light in the Attic (Wait, what. Why is this challenged?)
Lord of the Flies (Required)
The Outsiders (Required)
A Wrinkle in Time (For school)

One of the other books I've read in school, The Wars, is apparently challenged a lot as well.

[moko]

i've read:

- Bridge to Terabithia (school assignment)
- Captain Underpants (just to be clear, i'm not a fan of this series; i only read the first book out of sheer curiousity)
- Christine
- The Dead Zone
- The Face on the Milk Carton (school assignment)
- Flowers for Algernon (school assignment)
- Goosebumps
- Harry Potter
- A Light in the Attic
- Lord of the Flies (school assignment)
- Slaughterhouse-Five (school assignment)
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- A Wrinkle in Time

honestly, we have quite of few of those books at my house; i just haven't read them. =/

[Banika Conchita]

I loved To Kill A Mockingbird.

I HATED CALL OF THE WILD. >.<

[TBustah!]

A lot of those were required reading for me.

Now, why on earth do people have a problem with James and the Giant Peach? Is it because some people die in it? Or the horrible way that James's aunts treated him? Either reason would be a stupid one, death and abuse are just facts of life, you can't shelter kids from them forever.

Our teacher read it to us in the second grade, and we went to see the movie as a class, which was in theaters at the time (yeah, I know I'm dating myself there).