I’m a bit off schedule – we had a busy weekend here in the Hippie Hut and I’ll be sharing more later about that – but this past week’s banned book was J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye.

As I suspect many of us did, I remember first reading the tales of 16 year old Holden Caulfield – and how the world is really not suiting him – when I was around his age.

Rereading it, I’ll say that it definitely is for the teenaged demographic – this old lady no longer has the patience for Holden’s nonsense 😉 – *but* that is why it is even more unacceptable that this was THE most banned book in high schools and libraries from 1961 to 1983 – and continues to be high on the banned books list now.

We have to make sure Holden is available for a new generation of young people to read freely as well.

(Now, I’m really stoked for this week’s banned book – Catch-22.)

Wishing you all a great rest of your week and happy reading.

Be well, everybody. Take care of yourselves and each other.

Grace and Blessings.

The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Awakening – Kate Chopin

Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence

Animal Farm – George Orwell

1984 – George Orwell

Slaughterhouse Five – Kurt Vonnegut

Brave New World – Aldous Huxley

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

A Separate Peace – John Knowles

Lolita – Vladmir Nabokov

A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway

The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck

As I Lay Dying – William Faulkner

LOTR – The Fellowship of The Ring – J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR – The Two Towers – J.R.R. Tolkien

LOTR – The Return of the King – J.R.R. Tolkien

Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut

In Cold Blood – Truman Capote

Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison

To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck

Lord of the Flies – William Golding

A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess

For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway

The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey

Beloved – Toni Morrison

The Color Purple – Alice Walker

The Call of the Wild – Jack London

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell

Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin

Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence

Ulysses – James Joyce

The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger