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Subject: Re: To L S Chabot re button
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 16:47:58 EST
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> 
> 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-