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Here's a list of the top 110 banned books. Bold the ones you've read. Italicize the ones you've read part of. Underline the ones you specifically want to read (at least some of). Read more. Convince others to read some.

#1 The Bible
#2 Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
#3 Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
#4 The Koran
#5 Arabian Nights
#6 Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
#7 Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
#8 Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
#9 Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
#10 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
#11 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
#12 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
#13 Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
#14 Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
#15 Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
#16 Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
#17 Dracula by Bram Stoker
#18 Autobiography by Benjamin Franklin
#19 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
#20 Essays by Michel de Montaigne
#21 Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
#22 History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (this was banned...why?)
#23 Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
#24 Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
#25 Ulysses by James Joyce
#26 Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
#27 Animal Farm by George Orwell (I hate this book)
#28 Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (and this one
#29 Candide by Voltaire
#30 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (Everyone should read this book at LEAST once.)
#31 Analects by Confucius
#32 Dubliners by James Joyce
#33 Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
#34 Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
#35 Red and the Black by Stendhal
#36 Das Capital by Karl Marx
#37 Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire
#38 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I own a leather bound edition of this one and see NO reason for it to be banned...it's Sherlock! They make children's movies out of this!)
#39 Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence
#40 Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
#41 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
#42 Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
#43 Jungle by Upton Sinclair
#44 All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
#45 Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx
#46 Lord of the Flies by William Golding
#47 Diary by Samuel Pepys
#48 Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
#49 Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
#50 Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
#51 Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
#52 Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
#53 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
#54 Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
#55 Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
#56 Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X
#57 Color Purple by Alice Walker
#58 Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
#59 Essay Concerning Human Understanding by John Locke
#60 Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
#61 Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
#62 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#63 East of Eden by John Steinbeck
#64 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
#65 I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou(WORSHIP!)
#66 Confessions by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#67 Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais
#68 Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
#69 The Talmud
#70 Social Contract by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#71 Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
#72 Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
#73 American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
#74 Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler (I'm too scared to)
#75 Separate Peace by John Knowles
#76 Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
#77 Red Pony by John Steinbeck
#78 Popol Vuh
#79 Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
#80 Satyricon by Petronius
#81 James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
#82 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
#83 Black Boy by Richard Wright
#84 Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu
#85 Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
#86 Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George
#87 Metaphysics by Aristotle
#88 Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder (*gags*)
#89 Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin
#90 Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse
#91 Power and the Glory by Graham Greene
#92 Sanctuary by William Faulkner
#93 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
#94 Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
#95 Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
#96 Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
#97 General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
#98 Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
#99 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Alexander Brown
#100 Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
#101 Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines
#102 Émile by Jean Jacques Rousseau
#103 Nana by Émile Zola
#104 Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
#105 Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
#106 Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#107 Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
#108 Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
#109 Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
#110 Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes





1. The pairing you first fell in love with: Draco/Harry. I cannot help it, I worship this pairing and have since the begining.

2. The pairing you never expected to love as much as you do now: Harry/Tom Riddle...it just seems wrong some how.

3. The pairing everyone else loves that you don't: Draco/Hermione or Draco/Ginny. I mean, besides the whole Het thing..WHAT REALITY ARE YOU LIVING IN?! Not a fucking chance in hell.

4. The pairing you love that everyone else hates: Peter/Voldemort. HELLLO! So possible.





1. The pairing you first fell in love with: Shuichi/Eiri (very obvious WHY)

2. The pairing you never expected to love as much as you do now: Shuichi/Yuki Kitazawa. This is just...sooo cute if done right.

3. The pairing everyone else loves that you don't: Hiro/K. I'm sorry, I JUST don't see it most of the time....all of the time.


4. The pairing you love that everyone else hates: Rage/Eiri. Yes, I know, Shuichi/Eiri are the 'golden couple'...but these two sooo rock together! A bitch and an asshole.




12 things that annoy you:
1. My computer
2. Lack of money.
3. My major plot suckage
4. ANA
5. The Christian Church in any form
6. The fact that The End of the Begining still isn't finished after SIX YEARS
7. I'm out of food
8. Paris Hilton
9. Idiots
10. Pampered, selfish brats (who aren't me)
11. Most teenage fans of Gravitation
12. People who dare argue with me when I ban them from a forum like a certain sixteen year old who shall die.

11 people you'd want to spend more time with:
11. Val
10. K
9. Suq
8. Mary
7. Justin
6. Plat (at times)
5. Tami
4. Bobbie when she's not spazing (I get that enough)
3. Jessie
2. Mere
1. Val again though I almost put Alex

9 things you wear daily:
1. T-shirt
2. black pants
3. A rubber band for my hair
4. Silver Snake and silver sword pendants on a black cord
5. slippers
6. silver snake ring
7. black marker instead of nail polish
8. underwear
9. uh....

8 movies you'd watch over and over:
1. The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
2. The Tenth Kindom
3. HP movies
4. Any Tom Felton
5. The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
6. Any Orlando Bloom
7. Any Tim Burton movie.
8. Gravitation Anime

7 celebrities you would fuck:
1. Tom Felton
2. Orlando Bloom
3. Eliza Dushku
4. Chris Cullison (wow, three men)
5. Johnny Depp. ('scuse, four)
6. Angelina Jolie
7. uh...

6 things you touch every day:
1. Myself.
2. The computer mouse.
3. My pillow. (Actually, all four of them...)
4. The cats.
5. Books.
6. A soda can

5 things you do every day:
1. Read something.
2. Write something
3. Live under an alternate identity at CV (well, five of them)
4. Be an admin/mod somwehere (I worship the shrine of power)
5. Postpone something.

4 foods that you couldn't live without:
1. CHEESE
2. Chocolate
3. Rice/noodles
4. any meat product

3 of your favorite songs at this moment:
3. "Mockingbird" Eminem
2. "Life's a Lemon and I Want My Money Back" Meatloaf
1. Forsaken

2 people that have influenced your life the most:
2. Mere
1. Grandmere (I do everything she tells me not to and endlessly struggle to one day have her tell me I'm worth something).

1 recent revelation
1. I actually suck as a writer.

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