Y’all, we are finally at the end of our original banned books project, with my having finished books #43 and #44.

I must say these two were particularly. . . taxing. . . and I am not sad to see them go.

Our last two books are William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited.

I am not going to offer a summary of these two – because it was painful enough for me to have to read them.

Sophie’s Choice, of course, is thematically brutal – as most people know, if not from the book, then from the film

Brideshead Revisited, classic or not, is like the most drawn out and boring soap opera I’ve ever been subjected to in my life.

Needless to say, these weren’t for me.

However, the point of this project is that they don’t have to be for me: they should be always available for all of you.

Every single one of us has the right to read every book and decide for ourselves – and, the way the world is changing around us, we best be shouting that from every street corner.

My next banned book project is actually the most banned current books – but it is going to wait a bit in favor of regular weekly book reports and a huge project I’ll be announcing tomorrow. ❤

For now, I am celebrating completing this project.

Let’s stand up against book bans and library censorship everywhere, y’all. It’s getting worse out there.

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

Naked Lunch – William Burroughs

The Satanic Verses (substitute Knife) – Salman Rushdie

The Jungle – Upton Sinclair

Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison

Native Son – Richard Wright

All the King’s Men – Robert Penn Warren

Sophie’s Choice – William Styron

Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh