Banned Books Week – September 22 – 28, 2013

The Invisible Mentor blog is celebrating banned books this month, and from September 22 – 28, 2013 we are celebrating banned books week . During banned books week, we will be reviewing several banned books. I have already read and reviewed several books that were banned at some point during their history. I would love it if you joined me in celebrating the freedom to read by reading four banned books in September 2013.

Here are the banned books that I have on my book shelf that I haven’t read. I will be reading a few of them this month.

1. Lysistrata, Aristophanes
2. Burger's Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
3. Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
5. The Awakening , Kate Chopin
6. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
7. Gone with the Wind, 75th Anniversary Edition, Margaret Mitchell
8. The Decameron (Penguin Classics), Giovanni Boccaccio
9. Civil Disobedience which is often included with Walden (Walden and Civil Disobedience), Henry David Thoreau
10. Old Man Goriot , Honore de Balzac
11. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
12. The Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien 4-Book Boxed Set: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (Movie Tie-in): The Hobbit, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, The Return of the King), by J.R.R. Tolkien
13. Sons and Lovers , D.H. Lawrence
14. Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence
15. The Social Contract, Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Banned Books I Have Read and Reviewed

1. The Call of the Wild, Jack London (Review)
2. The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Editions), Nathaniel Hawthorne (Review)
3. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling (Review)
4. Candide: Or Optimism , Voltaire (Review)
5. A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet), Madeleine L'Engle (Review)
6. The Giver, Lois Lowry (The Giver Quartet 20th Anniversary boxed set) (Review)
7. The Outsiders, SE Hinton (Review)
8. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger (Review)
9. The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway (Review)
10. Lady Chatterley's Lover, DH Lawrence (Review)

Do you think that we should have the freedom to read whatever we want to? What are your thoughts about books being banned? Please let me know your thoughts in the comments section below. Liked this post? Share it and subscribe to my RSS feed and get loads more!

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