Banned Books Week

Ooooh, I almost missed Banned Books Week.  Do you have a favorite banned book?  Harper Collins posted this:

"For #BannedBooksWeek, we recommend reading WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS by #ShelSilverstein (and breaking your plates instead of washing them, but please don't eat babies)."

I've read Where the Sidewalk Ends and even wrote about it in 2011 on this blog.  Here are a dozen books librarians picked this year as the best banned books.  How many of these have you read?  I can claim more than half of them.

• The Bluest Eye ~ by Toni Morrison
• Slaughterhouse-Five ~ by Kurt Vonnegut
• The Outsiders ~ by S. E. Hinton
• Heather Has Two Mommies ~ by Leslea Newman
• Animal Farm ~ by George Orwell
• His Dark Materials: The Golden Compass ~ by Philip Pullman
• The Picture of Dorian Gray ~ by Oscar Wilde
• The Kite Runner ~ by Khaled Hosseini
• Looking for Alaska ~ by John Green
• Two Boys Kissing ~ by David Levithan
• 1984 ~ by George Orwell
• The Awakening ~ by Kate Chopin