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Banned Books

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

1) Put in bold the ones you’ve read completely.
2) Italicize the ones you’ve read excerpts or abridged versions of or which you recall having started to read and never finished.

  1. The Bible
  2. Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
  3. Don Quixote (Miguel de Cervantes)
  4. The Koran
  5. Arabian Nights
  6. Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
  7. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
  8. Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)
  9. Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
  10. Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
  11. Prince (Niccolò Machiavelli)
  12. Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
  13. Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
  14. Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert)
  15. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
  16. Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)
  17. Dracula (Bram Stoker)
  18. Autobiography (Benjamin Franklin)
  19. Tom Jones (Henry Fielding)
  20. Essays (Michel de Montaigne)
  21. Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)
  22. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edward Gibbon)
  23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
  24. Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
  25. Ulysses (James Joyce)
  26. Decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio)
  27. Animal Farm (George Orwell)
  28. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
  29. Candide (Voltaire)
  30. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
  31. Analects (Confucius)
  32. Dubliners (James Joyce)
  33. Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)
  34. Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway)
  35. Red and the Black (Stendhal)
  36. Das Kapital (Karl Marx)
  37. Flowers of Evil (Charles Baudelaire)
  38. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
  39. Lady Chatterley’s Lover (D. H. Lawrence)
  40. Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
  41. Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser)
  42. Gone with the Wind (Margaret Mitchell)
  43. Jungle (Upton Sinclair)
  44. All Quiet on the Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque)
  45. Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx)
  46. Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
  47. Diary (Samuel Pepys)
  48. Sun Also Rises (Ernest Hemingway)
  49. Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
  50. Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)
  51. Doctor Zhivago (Boris Pasternak)
  52. Critique of Pure Reason (Immanuel Kant)
  53. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)
  54. Praise of Folly (Desiderius Erasmus)
  55. Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
  56. Autobiography of Malcolm X (Malcolm X)
  57. The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
  58. Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
  59. Essay Concerning Human Understanding (John Locke)
  60. Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
  61. Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
  62. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
  63. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
  64. Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
  65. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
  66. Confessions (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
  67. Gargantua and Pantagruel (François Rabelais)
  68. Leviathan (Thomas Hobbes)
  69. Talmud
  70. Social Contract (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
  71. Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson)
  72. Women in Love (D. H. Lawrence)
  73. American Tragedy (Theodore Dreiser)
  74. Mein Kampf (Adolf Hitler)
  75. Separate Peace (John Knowles)
  76. The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
  77. Red Pony (John Steinbeck)
  78. Popol Vuh
  79. Affluent Society (John Kenneth Galbraith)
  80. Satyricon (Petronius)
  81. James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl)
  82. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
  83. Black Boy (Richard Wright)
  84. Spirit of the Laws (Charles de Secondat Baron de Montesquieu)
  85. Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
  86. Julie of the Wolves (Jean Craighead George)
  87. Metaphysics (Aristotle)
  88. Little House on the Prairie (Laura Ingalls Wilder)
  89. Institutes of the Christian Religion (Jean Calvin)
  90. Steppenwolf (Hermann Hesse)
  91. The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)
  92. Sanctuary (William Faulkner)
  93. As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
  94. Black Like Me (John Howard Griffin)
  95. Sylvester and the Magic Pebble (William Steig)
  96. Sorrows of Young Werther (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
  97. General Introduction to Psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud)
  98. A Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
  99. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (Dee Alexander Brown)
  100. A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
  101. Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Ernest J. Gaines)
  102. Émile (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
  103. Nana (Émile Zola)
  104. Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
  105. Go Tell It on the Mountain (James Baldwin)
  106. Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
  107. Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein)
  108. Day No Pigs Would Die (Robert Peck)
  109. Ox-Bow Incident (Walter Van Tilburg Clark)
  1. Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes)

English Skillz

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
Advanced
You scored 85% Beginner, 92% Intermediate, 93% Advanced, and 64% Expert!
You have an extremely good understanding of beginner, intermediate, and advanced level commonly confused English words, getting at least 75% of each of these three levels’ questions correct. This is an exceptional score. Remember, these are commonly confused English words, which means most people don’t use them properly. You got an extremely respectable score.



My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:
You scored higher than 16% on Beginner
You scored higher than 30% on Intermediate
You scored higher than 48% on Advanced
You scored higher than 30% on Expert
Link: The Commonly Confused Words Test written by shortredhead78 on Ok Cupid

Not bad for a science geek.