This is a perpetual challenge I just found when I discovered a fairly new blog, Lost In Books: the Banned Or Challenged Books Challenge. And the goal is to read 50 banned books.
So, I will keep a list here once I've found a page for reference:
1) Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
2) Harper Lee: To Kill A Mockingbird
3) George Orwell: 1984
4) George Orwell: Animal Farm
5) Dan Brown: The DaVinci Code
6) Stephen King: Carrie
7) Lois Lowry: The Giver
8) J.K. Rowling: Harry Potter
9) John Steinbeck: Of Mice And Men
10) Roald Dahl: The Witched
11) Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones
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thank you for the link. I joined the 999 challenge and one of my categories is banned/challenged books. I only have to read 9 for it but I feel that reading banned/challenged books will keep them alive. I'd like to read more of them and this is a great way to remind me to do it.
ReplyDeleteAlways a pleasure! So you're also doing the 999 challenge? :) I love reading banned and challenged books. It's interesting to find out what urges people to try to get rid of a book.
ReplyDeleteI am excited you are participating in this with me, Kathrin! Reading should always be a right, not a privilege! I look forward to seeing what you choose next. :)
ReplyDeleteHi Kathrin,
ReplyDeleteI started out with one challenge (TBR) because my list/pile had grown out of control. Then I thought it would be nice to visit others on the list and it opened a whole new world for me. I'm up to 14 challenges now, plus my own.
It's weird that some bloggers duplicate the rules/guidelines but don't make a clear link to the host of the challenge! I'm glad you did.
Now I'm finding so many great book blogs, I'm going to have a hard time doing much else!
@ Rebecca: It is my pleasure to join you in that one! I don't believe in book-banning at all. Books are there to be read, each and every one of them, IMHO, has a right to exist and be read. They show us different worlds, different opinions, and teach us a lot.
ReplyDelete@ Book Dragon: I am with you! I started with the Alpphabet Challenge and the Book-A-Week Challenge a couple years ago, then I discovered the TBR challenge last year and ever since then I stumbled over more and more challenges. It is amazing how many challenges are out there, but I only sign up for challenges I might have a chance at completing.
I always try to give a link to the original post for the challenge. Sometimes I forget that, I just have to admit it, but it is also a big help for me. After all, I want to check back with the host of the challenge to see how she (let's face it, most challenges are hosted by women ;) )and the others are doing and to inform the host that I've completed a book or the whole challenge.
As for all the book blogs out there: I'm lucky to use the Google reader. There I can read them all at once and mark each post read. That way I don't miss out on anything, and if I only have the time to read, but not to comment, I'll just keep the post unread for another day or later that day. I don't know how many blogs I have on my blog roll there, but it's a nice amount and if I would try to stay up-to-date with each one of them 365 days a year, I also would get anything else done...