Banned Books Week

I'm a bit late to the Banned Books Week bandwagon, but in honor of the week, the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2004 courtesy and directly copied for the American Library Association:

1. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier--sexual content, offensive language, religious viewpoint, being unsuited ot age group and violence

2. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers--racism, offensive language, and violence

3. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A. Bellesiles--inaccuracy and political viewpoint

4. The Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey--offensive language and modeling bad behavior

5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky--homosexuality, sexual content, and offensive language

6. What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones--sexual content and offensive language

7. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak--nudity and offensive language

8. King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland--homosexuality

9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou--racism, homosexuality, sexual content, offensive language and unsuited to age group

10. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck--racism, offensive language and violence.

Remember, if you work yourself up into a moralistic rage and feel the need to burn some books please do the world a favor and burn Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada. The literary world would be a better place without it.