This week’s banned book is Joseph Heller’s Catch-22.

I had not read this one before and it was a long and tedious journey.

I have seen it grouped with Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five – I suppose as they are both war satire pieces – but that is really as far as the similarities go.

My suggestion is absolutely go Vonnegut and leave this one be.

Yes, I know Catch-22 is beloved by many readers – it just was not particularly for me.

Also, for next week’s banned book, my library hold on D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers – our last Lawrence novel on the list – just came available – so the news is grim again. . . #fixitjesus 😉

Still, the point is that these books all remain available for everyone to read as they choose to – and we have now completed 35 of 44 books for this project. ❤

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

Catch-22 – Joseph Heller