Be Infamous
for Fifteen Minutes

Join in the BCFE's 1999 Reading Vigil in Observance of Banned Books Week.

This year the American Library Association and other participating organizations will observe Banned Books Week from September 25 through the following weekend. On Sunday, September 26, the Boston Coalition for Freedom of Expression will begin its eighth annual 24-hour reading of excerpts from books that have been banned, expurgated or challenged in the United States and around the world. Readers are needed to fill 15-minute slots between 5 p.m. on September 26 and 4:45 p.m. on Monday, September 27. Readers are, for the most part, free to choose their own selections. Our 1999 vigil 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. A partial list of suitable books appears below. We welcome your questions, comments, and ideas.

To volunteer to read or help out, contact James D'Entremont at 617/266-5827.

Roger D. Abrahams – African Folktales: Traditional Stories of the Black World
Margo Adler – Drawing Down the Moon
Harry Allard – The Stupids Step Out
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
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
Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan
William Burroughs – Naked Lunch
Erskine Caldwell – God's Little Acre; Tobacco Road
John Canaday – The Artist As Visionary
Alex Comfort – The Joy of Sex
Robert Cormier – The Chocolate War; I Am the Cheese
Noel Coward – Blithe Spirit
Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory; Witches
Charles Darwin – On the Origin of Species
George Eliot – Adam Bede; Silas Marner
Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
William Faulkner – As I Lay Dying; Mosquitos
F. Scott Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Gustave Flaubert – Madame Bovary
E.M. Forster – Maurice
Dian Fossey – Gorillas in the Mist
Anne Frank – The Diary of a Young Girl
Nancy Friday – Women on Top
Gabriel Garcia Marquez – One Hundred Years of Solitude
Nancy Garden – Annie on My Mind
Jean Genet – Our Lady of the Flowers
Allen Ginsberg – Howl and Other Poems
Nikki Giovanni – My House
William Golding – Lord of the Flies
Nadine Gordimer – July's People
Bette Green – The Drowning of Stephan Jones
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm – The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
John Guare – Six Degrees of Separation
Judith Guest – Ordinary People
Alex Haley and Malcolm X – The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Radclyffe Hall – The Well of Loneliness
E. Lynn Harris – Invisible Life
Robie Harris – It's Perfectly Normal
Joseph Heller – Catch–22
Langston Hughes, ed. – Best Short Stories by Negro Writers
Derek Humphrey – Final Exit
Aldous Huxley – Brave New World
James Joyce – Ulysses
Norton Juster – The Phantom Tollbooth
Ken Kesey – One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Stephen King – Cujo;The Shining
John Knowles – A Separate Peace
Tony Kushner – Angels in America
D.H. Lawrence – Lady Chatterley's Lover; The Rainbow; Sons and Lovers; Women in Love
Harper Lee – To Kill a Mockingbird
Madeleine L'Engle – A Wrinkle in Time
Norman Mailer – Ancient Evenings; The Naked and the Dead
Bernard Malamud – The Fixer
Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte D'Arthur
Arthur Miller – The Crucible; Death of a Salesman
Henry Miller – Tropic of Cancer
Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye; Song of Solomon
Leslea Newman – Heather Has Two Mommies
Janet Noel – The Human Body
Eugene O'Neill – Desire Under the Elms; Strange Interlude
George Orwell – 1984
Katherine Paterson – Bridge to Terabithia
Robert Newton Peck – A Day No Pigs Would Die
Gaius Petronius – Satyricon
Sylvia Plath – The Bell Jar
Chaim Potok – My Name Is Asher Lev
Francois Rabelais – Gargantua & Pantagruel
Pauline Reage – The Story of O
Luis Rodriguez – Always Running
Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
J.D. Salinger – The Catcher in the Rye
Hubert Selby, Jr. – Last Exit to Brooklyn
Maurice Sendak – In the Night Kitchen; Where the Wild Things Are
William Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet; Macbeth; Hamlet
Neil Simon – Brighton Beach Memoirs
Jane Smiley – A Thousand Acres
Zilpha Keatley Snyder – The Headless Cupid; The Witches of Worm
John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath; Of Mice and Men; The Red Pony
Howard Stern – Private Parts
R.L. Stine – Goosebumps
Jock Sturges – The Last Day of Summer; Radiant Identities
Dr. Seuss – The Lorax
Mark Twain – Huckleberry Finn
Gore Vidal – Live from Golgotha
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. – Slaughterhouse-Five
Alice Walker – The Color Purple; In Love and Trouble
Lael Tucker Wertenbaker – The World of Picasso
Walt Whitman – Leaves of Grass
Michael Willhoite – Daddy's Roommate
Edmund Wilson – Memoirs of Hecate County
Richard Wright – Native Son; Black Boy
Emile Zola – J'accuse