A Mayor of a little Alaska town Sara Palin attempted to ban the following books. The good citizens of Alessia fought for their right to free thought and saved TARZAN OF THE APES among other timeless classics. Of course I agree with some of her choices and have marked those sentenced to the bonfire as well as books I love. The rest remain in the stacks thanks to my apathy.
BONFIRE
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Cujo by Stephen King
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
The Shining by Stephen King
BELOVED
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Witches by Roald Dahl
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
BORED
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Blubber by Judy Blume
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwel
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth
She really had a twig up her tookis for Halloween, John Steinbeck and Roald Dahl. Probably received a D in English for those classes for refusing to reading 'inappropriate' books and some thug might have smeared shaving cream on her favorite moose slaying gun.
Mayor, hockey mom, mother of 4, wife of 'dude' and social censor.
She really is a busybody.
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