This will be a brief banned books post – as I am writing another post today, sharing some of my recent favorite books I’ve read – and I really don’t need to spend much time on this book I didn’t particularly care for.

I was not surprised to discover, after I did not enjoy the other two D.H. Lawrence books on our list, Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Women in Love, that the last work of his on the list, Sons and Lovers, was actually the most unpleasant of all in some ways.

Dearly beloved, the characters in this novel are detestable, the relationship between Mrs. Morel and her sons is disturbing, and that the novel is reportedly semi-autobiographical explains so much about the unpleasant D.H. Lawrence reading experience as a whole.

By all means, read these for yourself if you are curious; as for me, I am so glad to be shed of Mr. Lawrence.

Whew. That is all. 😉

This upcoming week’s banned book is William Burroughs’s Naked Lunch (and, oh my word, am I ever happy to see Billy Burroughs). 😉

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

Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence