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Banned Books Week, Sept. 24-Oct.1 2011


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The Last Dickens: A Novel
My Sister's Keeper
Rules
The Graveyard Book
Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins
Gargoyle on the Roof
The Dragons Are Singing Tonight
The Pit and the Pendulum and Other Stories: The Whole Story
The Hound of the Baskervilles
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Drums of Autumn
Voyager
Outlander
The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop
The Loop
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Belong to Me: A Novel
Love Walked In
An Abundance of Katherines
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Death of a Cozy Writer: A St. Just Mystery
Rebecca
All Alone in the Universe
The Poetry of Robert Frost: The Collected Poems, Complete and Unabridged
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
The Metamorphosis
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Sun Also Rises
Things Fall Apart
Invisible Man
Fahrenheit 451
The Castle in the Attic
Pride and Prejudice
Beach Music
Spoon River Anthology
Places I Never Meant To Be: Original Stories by Censored Writers
The Day They Came to Arrest the Book
The BFG
The Westing Game
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
The Grave Tattoo
Ahab's Wife: Or, The Star-gazer: A Novel
Bel Canto
Saving Fish from Drowning: A Novel
The Hobbit: Or, There and Back Again
The Falls: A Novel
Whirligig
Elsewhere
Ordinary Heroes
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Secret Life of Bees
Jane Eyre
Ethan Frome
Winesburg, Ohio
Stones from the River
The Dante Club: A Novel
The Girls
In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made
Life of Pi
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The Kite Runner
The Good German
The Heretic's Daughter
The Call of the Wild
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel
The Historian
A Widow for One Year
The Hound of the Baskervilles
To Kill a Mockingbird
People of the Book
Year of Wonders
Dead Until Dark
Locked Rooms
A Letter of Mary
The Beekeeper's Apprentice
To Say Nothing of the Dog
Doomsday Book
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City of Shadows: A Novel of Suspense
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