CAUTION! a List of Books Some People Consider Dangerous
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CAUTION! A List of Books Some People Consider Dangerous Compiled by the staff of the American Booksellers Association from the following sources, which may be consulted for more in-depth discussions of the issues in volved with each title I isted here. Haight, Ann Lyon and Grannis, Chandler B., Banned Books, 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D., R. R. Bowker Co. Nelson, Randy F., "Banned in Boston and Elsewhere,'' The Almanac of American Letters, Willi~m Kaufmann, Inc. Stanek, Lou Willett, Censorship: A Guide for Teachers ... , Dell Publishing Co. The New York Times, Monday, April 5, 1982 The New York Times Book Review, December 20, 1981 Time, April 19, 1982 Censorship News, National Coalition Against Censorship, various issues Newsletter on Intellectual Freedom, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association Social Education, April, 1982 Limiting What Students Shall Read, Summary report on survey sponsored by Associ ation of American Publishers, American Library Association, Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, National Coal it ion Against Censorship Ken Donelson, "Censorship," a tape recording prepared by the Children's Book Council American Library Association Traveling Exhibit American Society of Journalists and Authors, various publications Children's Book Council Media Coa J f t ion For more complete bibliographic information consult Books in Print, British Museum Catalog, Cumulative Book Index, and National Union Catalog of the Library of Congress, particularly for those titles no longer in print. Before the birth of Christ, even before the time of Homer (aaproximately 850 B.C.), writers and their writings were questioned. Although objec tions vary, foremost grounds have usually been religious, political or obscene or pornographic. Penalties have ranged from censure and removal of books, to fines and/or imprisonment for writers, booksellers and pub lishers, to the burning of books and even a few authors. Where possible, the following list is coded (See Legend below) to indi cate the reason(s) that have been given to seek the banning of each title. In the case of juvenile titles, many were questioned as to suitability at particular grade levels. With regard to obscenity, that category includes some titles thought to be objectionable if not actually obscene. Uncoded titles came from several sources and the reasons were not specified. In each instance the number(s) immediately follows the title. LEGEND 1. Ethnic 2. Inappropriate for young readers, including improper grade level 3. Objectionable language 4. Obscene 5. Political 6. Pornographic 7. Religious 8. Special interest groups 9. Cultural 10. Ethical 11. Literary standards CAUTION! A List of Books Some People Consider Dangerous Author Title Publisher THE AMERICAN CARTOON ALBUM (2) AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY (2,3,4) Dell, Houghton Mifflin BABY BROTHER (2) THE BI BLE--M I DRASH (1, 7, 9) CHILDHOOD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT MeG raw-Hi l l CIVICS Follett DOUBLE CROSS Chick EARTH SCIENCE American Book FAMILIES THE GOSPEL (7) Arbor House, Baker Books THE KORAN (7) Penguin, Tahrike Tarsile Quran LEVEL 1 READER (2) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich LITERATURE 7 AND LITERATURE 8 (2) Ginn & Co. LIVING LAW: CIVIL JUSTICE Scholastic LIVING LAW: CRIMINAL JUSTICE Scholastic NEW VOICES, vols. 1-4 Ginn & Co. OUR FREEDOM Week 1y Reader PEOPLE, PLACES, AND CHANGE Holt Rinehart & Winston SCHOLASTIC AMERICAN CI TJ ZENSH I P Scholastic Book Service SCHOLASTIC BOOK OF GHOSTS (2) Scholastic WAR YEAR Holt Rinehart & Winston WE THE PEOPLE--HISTORY OF THE U.S. D.C. Heath THE TALMUD (5) Sene i no Press Abe 1ard, Pl erre LETTRES D'HELOISE ET ABELARD {4,7,9) Cooper Square Agee, Philip INSIDE THE COMPANY: CIA DIARY (5) Bantam, Stonehill Pub. Aho & Petras. LEARNING ABOUT SEX (2) Holt Rinehart & Winston A1 1 a rd , Harry THE STUPIDS STEP OUT (2,8) Houghton Miff] in Allen, Donald, Ed. THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY Grove Press Altman , Thomas KISS DADDY GOODBYE (2) Bantam Andersen, Hans WONDER STORIES (2,4) Christian -2- Anderson, Sherwood DARK LAUGHTER Dynamic Learning Corp., Liver i ght Andress, Lesley CAPER (2) Pocket Books, Putnam Andry & Schepp HOW BABIES ARE MADE (2) Time-Life Anonymous THE ARABIAN NIGHTS' ENTERTAINMENT Dover Books, Grosset & Dunlap Anonymous GO ASK ALICE (2,4) Avon, Prentice-Hall Anson, Jay THE AMITYVILLE HORROR (2) Bantam Archer, J. & A READER FOR WRITERS (1,2,4,7,10) McGraw Hill Schwartz, A. Aristophanes LYSISTRATA (4) New American Library, Penguin, University Press of Virginia Arms & Camp BIOLOGY (10) Holt, Rinehart & Winston Armstrong, William SOUNDER (1) Harper & Row Arrick, Fran STEFFIE CAN'T COME OUT TO PLAY Bradbury Asher, Don BLOOD SUMMER (2, 1 0) Putnam Asimov, Isaac ISAAC ASIMOV'S TREASURY OF HUMOR (2) Houghton Mifflin IN THE BEGINNING: SCIENCE FACES Crown GOD IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS (7) Babbitt, Natalie THE DEVIL'S STORYBOOK (2) Bantam, Farrar Straus & Giroux Bacon, Francis ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING (7) Humanities, Rowman & Littlefield Bailey & Kennedy THE AMERICAN PAGEANT: A HISTORY OF D.C. Heath THE REPUBLIC Baldwin, James ANOTHER COUNTRY (4) Balzac, Honore de DROLL STORIES ( 4) French & European Bannerman, Helen LITTLE BLACK SAMBO (1) Lippincott, Platt & Munk, Western Baraka, lmamu Amiri THE TOILET (1 ,2) (Leroi Jones) Baudelaire, Charles THE FLOWERS OF EVIL (9,10) New Directions, Norton Baum, Frank L. THE WIZARD OF OZ (2, 11) Grosset & Dunlap Beaumarchais, Pierre BARBER OF SEVILLE (5,7,10) Penguin MARRIAGE OF FIGARO (5,7,10) Penguin Bell, Ruth et ai. CHANGiNG BODIES, CHANGING LIVES Random House Benchley, Peter JAWS (2,3,4) Bantam, Doubleday Benford, Gregory IN THE OCEAN OF NIGHT (2) Dell Bently, Thomas ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG OUTLAW (2) Berrigan, Daniel TRIAL OF THE CATONSVILLE NINE (2) -3- Bishop, Claire H. THE FIVE CHINESE BROTHERS (J ,2) Blatty, Wi I I iam P.. THE EXORCIST (2,4,11) Bantam, Harper & Row Blume, Judy ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET (2)Bradbury BLUBBER (2) Dell, Dutton DEENIE (2,4) Bradbury FOREVER (2) Bradbury, Pocket Books IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD (2) Bantam, Bradbury STARRING SALLY J. FREEDMAN AS HERSELF(2)Bradbury, De I I THEN AGAIN, MAYBE I WON'T (2) Bradbury · WIFEY (2,6) Pocket Books, Putnam Boccaccio THE DECAMERON (4,6) AMS Press, Johns Hopkins, Norton, Penguin Bomans, Godfr i ed WILY WITCH & ALL THE OTHER FAIRY Stemmer House TALES & FABLES (2) Bonham, Frank GIMME AN H, GIMME AN E, GIMME AN L, Scribner GIMME A P Bonners, Susan PANDA (2) De 1a corte Boston Women's OUR BODIES, OURSELVES (2) Simon & Schuster Health Book Col Jective Bower, William C. THE LIVING BIBLE (7) Arno Branscum, Robbie JOHNNY MAY (2) Doubleday Brautigan, Richard THE ABORTION: AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE Poc.ket Books, Simon & Schuster A CONFEDERATE GENERAL FROM BIG SUR De 1 ta/Seymour Lawrence THE PILL VS. THE SPRINGHILL MINE De 11 DISASTER (2,4) THE REVENGE OF THE LAWN (2) Pocket Books ROMMEL DRIVES ON DEEP INTO EGYPT (2,4) Delacorte, Dell TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA Delacorte Bredes, Don HARD FEELINGS Atheneum, Bantam Brick I in, Mark THE PRACTICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF Rodale Press NATURAL HEALING (2) Briggs, Raymond FATHER CHRI sntAS (2,9) Coward Brodsky, Mimi THE HOUSE AT 12 ROW STREET (2) Archway Brown, Claude MANCHILD IN THE PROMISED LAND (2,3,4) Macmillan, New American Library Browning, Elizabeth AURORA LEIGH (4) Academy Chicago Barrett Buck, Pearl S. THE GOOD EARTH (2) Crowell, Harper & Row, Pocket Books Burgess, Anthony A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (2,4,11) Ballantine, Norton Burroughs, William NAKED LUNCH (4) Grove Press Burroughs, William THE YAGE LETTERS (4) City Lights & Ginsberg, Allen Buryn, Ed VAGABONDING IN THE U.S.A. (2) And/Or Press Gabel I, James Branch JURGEN (4) Dover Books -4- Caldwell, Erskine GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (4,6) New American Library TOBACCO ROAD (4,6) New American Library Calvin, John CIVIL AND CANONICAL LAW (5,7) Carroll, Lewis ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND Ace, Bantam, Crown, Delacorte, (9,10,11) Dover, New American Lib rary, Norton, Penguin, Random House, St. Martin's Casanova de Seingalt, MEMOIRES (HISTORY OF MY LIFE) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Giovanni (4,7,9,10) Cervantes, Saavedra, DON QUIXOTE (7,10) Methuen, New American Miguel de Library, Norton, Random House Chamberlain, Wilt WILT CHAMBERLAIN (2) Chelminsky, Rudolph PARIS (2,4) Time-Life Chick, Jack T. THE BIG BETRAYAL (2) Chick Childress, Alice A HERO AIN'T NOTHIN' BUT A SANDWICH Avon, Coward, Putnam 2 Chittum, Ida TA~ts o#'f£~~dR (2) Chopin, Kate THE AWAKENING (4,9,10) Avon, Bantam, Norton O'Flaherty Clark, Walter Van THE OX BOW INCIDENT New American Library Til burg Cleaver, Eldridge SOUL ON ICE (1,2,5,7,11) Dell, McGraw Hill Cleland, John FANNY HILL (4) Dell, Grove Press C1 i fton, Luci 11 e AMIFSKA (2) Dutton Co 1by, C. B. COLBY--2ND WW AIRCRAFT (2) C01·1a rd Colman, Hila DIARY OF A FRANTIC KID SISTER (2) Archway, Crown Comfort, Alex THE FACTS OF LOVE (2,4) Ballantine, Crown JOY OF SEX (2 ,4) Crown, Simon & Schuster MORE JOY OF SEX (2,4) Crown Conne 11 y, Marc THE GREEN PASTURES (7) Holt Rinehart & Winston Confucius ANALECTS (5, 9) Dover Books, Random House Coombs, Patricia THE MAGIC POT (2) Lothrop Cappel, Alfred THIRTY-FOUR EAST (2) Carley, Edwin THE GENESIS ROCK (2) Dell, Doubleday Cormier, Robert THE CHOCOLATE WAR (2) De 11, Pantheon Cox, R. David STUDENT CRITIC Winthrop Publishers Dalrymple, D. & MARKETING MANAGEMENT: TEXT & CASES Wiley Parsons, L. Daniell, Rosemary FATAL FLOWERS (4,9) Avon, Holt Rinehart & Winston Dante, Al ighieri THE DIVINE COMEDY (4,5,6) Norton, Pocket Books, Random House, Regnery Gateway D'Arcy, Anne Jeanne ONE WOMAN'S WAR ON VD IN THE NURSERY SCHOOL (2) -5- Darrow, Whitney I'M GLAD I'M A BOY, I'M GLAD I'M A GIRL (2) Darwin, Charle' B.