Huh. 34, which is more than I was expecting. Although I didn’t read the entire Goosebumps series, I did read about 5 or 6 of them. It was one of the first series my son really got into when he was younger, so I read some to make sure they were appropriate. He ended reading the entire series and some other books by R.L. Stine.
I think about 20.
I remember Judy Blume’s Forever being about a girl losing her virginity. So there were sex scenes in it.
I counted 33. I haven’t read a lot of children’s literature (even as a child, I read grown-up books).
Yeah for me. I am a twisted, corrupt person. But we knew that anyway.
25 1/2. I gave myself a split decision on a couple of the Judy Blume titles that sounded familiar (but I wasn’t sure of) and a partial for the Rice trilogy, which was repulsive.
25
Bridge to Terabithia is probably the most puzzling inclusion on the list to me.
Only 30, but that’s probably because I outgrew children’s literature very quickly. I’d be interested in reading quite a few of the adult books I’m missing so far. It seems like Toni Morrison is in second place behind Judy Blume. No surprise there; she doesn’t pull any punches.
31, most of them as a teenager, and several because they were required in school. All of them were good books, though. Don’t know why people don’t challenge the cruddy stupid books we had to read, like Death Be Not Proud. I could get behind banning that book for the good of humanity.
I’ve read seven. Ten if you count Sex, Where’s Waldo, and The Anarchists Cookbook. (I don’t know why they’d ban Sex. Nothing could make actual sex seem less appealing than that stupid book.) I missed out on alot of the required kid’s and adolescent’s reading, I think.
Wow. I gotta tell you, I clicked on it thinking I would have read many on the list. I thought maybe they’d be long novels written by authors I’ve never read anything by.
So imagine my surprise when I counted 26 out of the 100 that I’ve read.
Haven’t read this topic all the way through either, so forgive me if something I say has been said already…
…but I can’t see why 56, 51, 32, or 1 would have been challenged. Well, maybe I can see why number 1 was, but what where they expecting from a book with that title? Happy stories with good endings? That’s like picking up a bible and then being offended by the religious overtones…
Huh.
I’m surprised Stephen King’s IT didn’t make it, what with the underaged sex orgy in the sewers and all.
Really? I found nothing puzzling about BtT. It’s an incredibly depressing and emotionally laden book. Profound, yes. Challenging, yes. But I can easily think of why people would have problems with it.
although I wouldn’t be surprised if it was challenged for women acting like men
In regard to the Judy Blume issue-I have no idea about why “Margaret” is on there but apparently “Forever” was one of the first books written where teenagers had pre-marital sex and didn’t die some sort of tragic death with back-alley abortions and fiery car crashes etc. etc…
Just 20, because I didn’t count Potter or Auel’s stuff because I only read one of each. What an odd list.
15, and I may have read all or parts of 2 or 3 others. Many of them were required reading in school (Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, The Outsiders, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies) And I, too am boggled by why some of those books are on the list. What on earth is wrong with A Wrinkle In Time?
Eleven. And most of those 11 were read under the watchful eye of the nuns as assignments during my conservative Catholic school upbringing.