So lately I've been researching banned & challenged books, and it's all just so fascinating! Some of them are ridiculous, others lead to things like the "Radioactive Boy Scout" (which is strange yet interesting), and there are some which I'm glad they are banned (Just look up Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark).
I think I'm going to try and have a weekly banned book reading party (or a Russian literature party) during the summer, with baked black cherry crisp and wine and other delicious things. We can all sit on my new apartment's living room floor with pillows and do dramatic readings of sorts, it'll be oodles of fun, I'm sure. x
So these are three which I'd really like to read once I get my hands on them. I'm expecting The Color Purple to be a difficult read based on what I read on the wiki page; Lolita has been on my reading list for ages now, and well, Lady Chatterley's Lover just seemed interesting!
So have some recommendations in no particular order, with stars next to my absolute favorites:
- Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, Lewis Carroll ✩
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley ✩
- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes ✩
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald ✩
- Lord of the Flies, Sir William Golding
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde ✩
- Go Ask Alice, Anonymous
- The Crucible, Arthur Miller
- A Separate Peace, John Knowles ✩
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (I never finished this one because college gets in the way of things, but it was good!)
- Bless Me, Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Elizabeth George Speare
- Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury (I'm not super-duper fond of this one, but it's one of my boyfriend's favorites, so I thought I'd list it anyways)
- And any Where's Waldo book
