A quick post to point out this cool map which shows a listing of book challenges by geography. Way to go Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and South Dakota for accepting all your books with open arms! Shame shame New England…
So it is Banned Books Week, and I thought it would be pertinent to post a few links for everyone to see what they should most definitely not be reading.
Here’s a list of banned books and reasons behind their banning.
Here’s a more comprehensive list of the top 100 banned books.
And here’s a great set of charts that show which books get banned and who requests their banning (thanks to Neil Gaiman for pointing me to this one).
edit: After scanning through the list of the top 100, I counted that I had read 25 (so far), and I don’t recall being offended or damaged by any of them. Though Ayn Rand was close…