Saturday, September 18, 2010

Read Aloud from a Banned Book at the Library, Saturday, September 25th


If you are 18 or older and enjoy reading aloud in front of an audience, this is just the opportunity you have been looking for. We will be reading aloud from banned classic fiction.
If you are interested in reading from one of the following titles, please contact Ramona Grimsley.


1984 by George Orwell

American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser

Animal Farm by George Orwell

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Awakening by Kate Chopin

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Call of the Wild by Jack London

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut

Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Color Purple by Alice Walker

Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway

Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin

Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence

Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs

Native Son by Richard Wright

Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Rabbit, Run by John Updike

Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

Separate Peace by John Knowles

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut

Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence

Sophie's Choice by William Styron

Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

Ulysses by James Joyce

Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence

 
Most Challenged Books this Year


Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky

Olive's Ocean Kevin Henkes

1 comment:

Ramona Grimsley said...

The Read Out was a success! Thanks to everyone who participated. A special thanks to Ronnie Cooper who made the trip up from Florida to read from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Eloise Gowder, former Head Librarian at BCLS. I was inspired by all the readers and have begun to re-read some of the titles and introduce myself to titles not previously read. Take the challenge. Read.