Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site sdcc3.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ee251abd From: ee251abd@sdcc3.UUCP (ee251abd) Newsgroups: net.books Subject: Re: To L S Chabot re button Message-ID: <2726@sdcc3.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 16:47:58 EST Article-I.D.: sdcc3.2726 Posted: Thu Feb 28 16:47:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 04:03:09 EST References: <697@decwrl.UUCP> Organization: U.C. San Diego, Academic Computer Center Lines: 74 > > Loved your reference to buttons reading, 'I read banned books!.' I am > running for Library Trustee in our little town - can't tell you which one, > and I plan to have buttons (if I win - 2 places, three running) made up to > say 'I burn banned books!!' > > It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. > > Any books you might suggest for my list??? > > Regards, > > Ken Arndt Below is a list of books that have been banned by official bodies, ranging from the S. African govt. to the US Mail service. They are relatively easy to obtain, hence quite `bannable` by small libraries. Vladimir Nabokov Lolita Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer Radclyffe Hall Well of Loneliness D H Lawrence The Rainbow James Joyce Ulysses Harold Robbins The Carpetbaggers Erskine Caldwell God`s Little Acre Ernest Hemingway For Whom the bell tolls James Jones From Here to Eternity James B Cabell Jurgen Stanley Kauffmann The Philanderer Pauline Reage The Story of O Terry Southern Candy Anonymous My Secret Life Cyril Connolly The Rock Pool Tom Sharpe Riotous Assembly Aubrey Beardsley Under the Hill Georges Bataille The story of the eye Mark Twain 1601 Jean Genet Our Lady of the Flower Sheik Nefzaui The Perfumed Garden More recent and explicit books which are not banned but may be considered worth banning by any self-righteous library include: Brian Aldiss The Hand-reared boy Charles Jackson The sunnier side Robert Nye Merlin Paul Theroux The black house Colin Wilson Lingard Edmund Wilson Memoir of Hecate County David Greenburg Philly William Golding The Pyramid Jerzy Kosinski The painted bird Nancy Friday Men in Love Calder Willingham Rambling Rosie Luke Rhinehardt The Dice Man Gael Greene Blue skies, no candy George Thompson Jack Harold H L Humes Underground City Books to consult for rarer titles to be banned: Roy H Lewis The Browser`s Guide to Erotica Gershon Legman The Horn Book Noel Perrin Dr Bowdler`s Legacy James Barke Porno. and Bawdry in Lit. and Society Wayland Young Eros denied B J Hurwood The golden age of erotica David Loth The Erotic in Literature H M Hyde A history of pornography Ralph Ginzburg An Unhurried view of erotica -A Camus Fan-