It’s Banned Books Week! It’s that time of the year again when we celebrate the freedom to read.
What’s Banned Books Week, you ask?
Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information. Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers — in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. — www.ala.org
This Banned Books Week Giveaway Hop is hosted by BookHounds and runs from September 15 to 30.
For this giveaway hop, I’ll be giving away a $5 Amazon gift card! Enter via the Rafflecopter below!
Read more about Banned Books by checking out these links:
- American Library Association – Banned and Challenged Books
- Banned Books Week Coalition
- Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists
And please check out the rest of the stops in this hop for more chances of winning!
The giver. Thanks for the chance.
1984.
I like 1984 by Orwell.
Thanks for the contest.
I’ve always liked To Kill A Mockingbird. I think I haven’t read enough of classic banned books.
I love A Wrinkle in Time and the Harry Potter series.
My favorite is 1984
I don’t have a favorite, but I’ve enjoyed The Hunger Games and 1984
Harry Potter is my favorite. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would like to reread Animal Farm
My favorite banned book is Beloved by Toni Morrison.
I cannot believe that the Harry Pooter books are listed there. I’m a little shocked.
In Cold Blood is my favorite.
I love the Wizard of Oz and many books that stroke the imagination but others think they are evil are something weird.
Harry potter <3
I grew up reading Mark Twain. So, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has always been one of my favorites.
My favorite is To Kill A Mockingbird.
“The Giver”
The Harry Potter books. If I won, I’d probably buy the new illustrated edition of Prisoner of Azkaban.
A banned book that I really liked was Catcher in the Rye.
probably harry potter
I loved The Namesake. How on earth could anyone want to ban it?
I have read several banned books, including 1984, The Giver, Lord of the Flies , and the Hunger Games series. My favorite challenged book is The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood.
There are so many of them and I really don’t understand why most of them are banned. I read To Kill A Mockingbird in hight school (main reason is that it was mandatory) It was not banned at the time, and I enjoyed it!!
I don’t know that I have a favorite, but I loved ALL the Harry Potter books and was appalled that people actually tried to ban them on religious grounds. It offends me when anyone tries to ban a book.
My favorite is The handmaid’s tale
My favorite is To Kill A Mockingbird.
Catcher in the Rye is my favorite.
To kill a mocking bird is my favorite but there are so many
My favorite banned book is The Handmaid’s Tale.
My favorite is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote because it’s a powerful condemnation of the death penalty.
I was surprised about Snow White & the seven dwarves but not as much when i read it was challenged in Qatar. Still don’t understand but who knows…
My favorite is Harry Potter! We love those books and movies, and despite it being “religious” people that seemed to want it banned.. we attend church and are religious. I just don’t think a bit of magic is harmful!
My favorite is Are You There, God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume.
My favorite banned book is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury.
I’ve been wanting to read I Am Jazz, especially since my cousin decided after reading it that Jazz’s story resonated very close to home and realized that he is transgender.
I recently read Eleanor & Park & really loved it.
My favorite is the Harry Potter series.
Harry Potter is my favorite!
I’ve been wanting to read Eleanor & Park written by Rainbow Rowell
there are so many books that I have read and just love! the one I would like to read is Lolita!
There are so many banned or challenged books I want to read……one is Looking for Alaska.
I always loved the Bridge to Terabithia. I read it many times when I was younger.
My favorite challenged/banned book has always been The Perks of Being a Wallflower :)
Thanks for the chance to win!!
My favorite has always been Catcher in the Rye
Harry Potter
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
The Great Gatsby
LOved Drama
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
One book I have been wanting to read that is banned then not banned, and so on is The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
Thanks for the giveaway. I love the Outsiders and To Kill a Mockingbird; there are lots of banned books I still need to read. ;)
Harry Potter is my favorite one.
All the Harry Potter books. Can’t believe they are banned!
To Kill A Mockingbird
Still haven’t read Harry Potter, but it’s on my list of books I plan to read.
Soooo many favorites, but I particularly love Eleanor and Park.
Mark Twain’s “Letters From the Earth”. It was banned for years after it was written, and is hard to find now. Brilliant political/social satire.
“What’s your favorite Challenged or Banned Book? Or is there a Challenged or Banned book that you’ve always wanted to read but haven’t yet?” I don’t know. I don’t know. I like Aldous Huxley!
Thanks for being part of the Hop. And the giveaway chance.
Sorry, it’s To Kill A Mockingbird.
I’m not sure, because different places have different banned books and for a variety of reasons (excuses or agendas, more like)… I’ll say Harry Potter or Alice in Wonderland, because you wouldn’t think anyone believed they could stop anyone from reading them.