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Instead, they’re often full of classics and popular titles sold widely in bookstores and online-or dominated by books written for young readers, or assigned for school reading.” Are these lists-and the banned books celebrations that occasion them-just “ shameless propaganda” as conservative Thomas Sowell alleges? “Is it wrong to call these books banned?” asks Ockerbloom in his essay “Why Banned Books Week Matters.” Of course he answers in the negative “not if you take readers seriously. “The banned books lists you’ll find in many libraries and bookstores,” writes John Mark Ockerbloom at Everybody’s Libraries, “doesn’t focus much on the political samizdat, security exposés, or portrayals of Mohammed that are the objects of forcible suppression today. The list of censored undisputed classics-every one of which surely has its own piece of giant store art in Barnes & Nobles nationwide-goes on. Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird saw a challenge in the Vernon Verona Sherill, New York school district in 1980 as a “filthy, trashy novel” and in 1996, Lindale, Texas banned it from the advanced placement English reading list because it “conflicted with the values of the community.” Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath has a lengthy rap sheet, including total banning in Ireland (1953), Morris, Manitoba (1982), and all high school classes in Kanawha, Iowa (1980). The American Library Association maintains a page that details the charges against each one.
In fact, a full 46 of Modern Library’s “100 Best Novels” have been suppressed or challenged in some way. We well know of the most famous cases of banned books: James Joyce’s Ulysses, Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer, Allen Ginsberg’s Howl.
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