A Vigil in Observance
of Banned Books Week

This year the American Library Association and other participating organizations will observe Banned Books Week from September 23 through the following weekend. On Sunday, October 1, the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression will begin its fourth annual 24-hour reading of excerpts from books that have been banned, expurgated or challenged in parts of the United States and around the world. Readers are needed to fill 15- minute slots between 5 p.m. on October 1 and 4:45 p.m. on Monday, October 2. The event will take place at the Leland Center, Boston Center for the Arts, 541 Tremont Street, Boston, and will be free and open to the public. Our 1995 vigil, presented in association with the Boston Center for the Arts, is dedicated to the memory of our late chairperson Bill Reeves. A partial list of suitable books appears below. We welcome your ideas. To volunteer to read or help out, contact Jim D'Entremont at 617/497-7193.

Dorothy Allison -- Bastard Out of Carolina
American Heritage Dictionary
The Anarchist Cookbook
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Anonymous -- Go Ask Alice
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
Jean Auel -- Clan of the Cave Bear; Valley of the Horses
James Baldwin -- If Beale Street Could Talk
Frank L. Baum -- The Wizard of Oz
Judy Blume -- Deenie; Forever; Tiger Eyes; Blubber; Wifey.
Boston Women's Health Book Collective -- Our Bodies, Ourselves
Ray Bradbury -- Fahrenheit 451; The Martian Chronicles
Anthony Burgess -- A Clockwork Orange
Edgar Rice Burroughs -- Tarzan
William Burroughs -- Naked Lunch
John Cleland -- Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
Pat Conroy -- The Great Santini; The Lords of Discipline
Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese
Roald Dahl -- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Matilda; Witches
Charles Darwin -- On the Origin of Species
James Dickey -- Deliverance
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
William Faulkner -- As I Lay Dying; Mosquitos
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
Frances Fitzgerald -- Cities on a Hill: A Journey through Contemporary American Culture
Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
E.M. Forster -- Maurice
Dian Fossey -- Gorillas in the Mist
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
Nancy Garden -- Annie on My Mind
John Gardner -- Grendel
Allen Ginsberg -- Howl and Other Poems
Nikki Giovanni -- My House
William Golding -- Lord of the Flies
Nadine Gordimer -- July's People
Bette Greene -- The Drowning of Stephan Jones
Alex Haley and Malcolm X -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Radclyffe Hall -- The Well of Loneliness
Martin Handford -- Where's Waldo?
James P. Hanigan -- Homosexuality: The Test Case for Christian Sexual Ethics
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
Langston Hughes, ed. -- Best Short Stories by Negro Writers
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
Erica Jong -- Fear of Flying
James Joyce -- Ulysses
Stephen King -- Cujo; The Shining
Mary Kittredge -- Teens with AIDS Speak Up
Jerzy Kosinski -- Being There
D.H. Lawrence -- Lady Chatterley's Lover
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
Sinclair Lewis -- Elmer Gantry
Madonna -- Sex
Naguib Mahfouz -- Children of Gebelawi
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
Henry Miller -- Tropic of Cancer;Opus Pistorum
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon
Leslea Newman -- Heather Has Two Mommies; Gloria Goes to Gay Pride
Eugene O'Neill -- Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude
George Orwell -- 1984
Thomas Paine -- The Age Of Reason
Gordon Parks -- The Learning Tree
Katherine Paterson -- Bridge to Terabithia
Sylvia Plath -- The Bell Jar
Pauline R‚age -- The Story of O
Mary Renault -- The Last of the Wine
Russell H. Robbins -- Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology
Salman Rushdie -- The Satanic Verses
J.D. Salinger -- The Catcher in the Rye
Hubert Selby, Jr. -- Last Exit to Brooklyn
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet
George Bernard Shaw -- Man and Superman
Jane Smiley -- A Thousand Acres
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit
Mark Twain -- Huckleberry Finn
John Updike -- Rabbit, Run
Gore Vidal -- Live from Golgotha
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- Slaughterhouse-Five
Alice Walker -- The Color Purple; In Love and Trouble
Walt Whitman -- Leaves of Grass
Michael Willhoite -- Daddy's Roommate
August Wilson -- Fences
Richard Wright -- Native Son; Black Boy