Where do you think they got the list? Are there people out there compiling lists of books to ban? The list looks almost random (Chaucer and Boccaccio, Steinbeck and Faulkner?) but too long for someone to just come up with of the top of their head. I don’t see what they have in common.
Sarah Palin must be incredibly well-read to have the knowledge that would allow her to put these books on a banned books list.
LOL! It is so ridiculous.
The publication of such lists, “books to be banned”, are usually a compilation of many lists promulgated by interest groups who find the subject matter of these books objectionable in some way.
Some of the books on this list (from this post) have been recommended as “objectionable” by Roman Catholic organizations, the NAACP, some Evangelical Baptist groups, and other special interest groups too numerous to recount.
I really see no reason for the lists other than many of these books shouldn’t be on the mandatory (or voluntary) reading lists of children less than 18-years old. Parents should make the judgement calls on what their children read, no one else.