Banned Books!

The United States is a country founded on freedom. The free exchange of ideas, the freedom to say what you think, the freedom to choose your reading materials are all examples of our basic freedoms. Yet in this free country there are people who would choose what books are not suitable for you to read, who would choose what ideas you hear, who would censor you for holding ideas different than their own. In school districts today Sherman Alexie's book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian, winner of both the National Book Award and the PNBA Award, is banned. Why ban a book that encourages children to strive to learn, to avoid living down to the expectations of others? It is scary that people are able to stop the free flow of ideas, to censor reading material and to restrict ideas. At Sunriver Books & Music we pay tribute to some of the books that have been banned. The first book on this list celebrating the works of literature that have been banned is Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes. I believe it is the best book ever written, it has survived over 400 years, yet there are people who would censor this fabulous book!

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Don Quixote By Miguel de Cervantes, Edith Grossman Cover Image
$24.99
ISBN: 9780060934347
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Published: Ecco - April 26th, 2005

All the Pretty Horses: Border Trilogy 1 (National Book Award Winner) (Vintage International) By Cormac McCarthy Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9780679744399
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Published: Vintage - June 29th, 1993

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Brideshead Revisited By Evelyn Waugh Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780316042994
Availability: Special Order - Subject to Availability
Published: Back Bay Books - June 1st, 2008

The Joy Luck Club: A Novel By Amy Tan Cover Image
By Amy Tan
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143038092
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Published: Penguin Books - September 21st, 2006

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East of Eden By John Steinbeck Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780142004234
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Published: Penguin Books - June 18th, 2003

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A Passage To India By E.M. Forster Cover Image
$13.99
ISBN: 9780156711425
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Published: Mariner Books Classics -

The Catcher in the Rye By J. D. Salinger Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316769174
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Published: Back Bay Books - January 30th, 2001

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The Great Gatsby: The Only Authorized Edition By F. Scott Fitzgerald Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780743273565
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Published: Scribner - September 30th, 2004

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All The King's Men: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize By Robert Penn Warren, Noel Polk Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780156012959
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Published: Mariner Books Classics - September 3rd, 2002

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A Farewell to Arms: The Hemingway Library Edition By Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (Foreword by), Sean Hemingway (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Hemingway (Foreword by), Sean Hemingway (Introduction by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9781476764528
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Published: Scribner - July 8th, 2014

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The Satanic Verses: A Novel By Salman Rushdie Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9780812976717
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - March 11th, 2008

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Song of Solomon: A Novel (Vintage International) By Toni Morrison Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781400033423
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Published: Vintage - June 8th, 2004

The Handmaid's Tale: A Novel By Margaret Atwood Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780385490818
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Published: Anchor - March 16th, 1998

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) By Sherman Alexie Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780316013697
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Published: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers - April 1st, 2009

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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Perennial Deluxe Editions) By Harper Lee Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780061120084
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - May 23rd, 2006

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The Monkey Wrench Gang By Edward Abbey Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780061129766
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Published: Harper Perennial Modern Classics - December 12th, 2006

The House of the Spirits: A Novel By Isabel Allende Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9781501117015
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Published: Atria Books - December 15th, 2015

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Mark Twain, John Seelye (Introduction by), Guy Cardwell (Notes by), Lilli Carre (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Mark Twain, John Seelye (Introduction by), Guy Cardwell (Notes by), Lilli Carre (Illustrator)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780143105947
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Published: Penguin Classics - October 27th, 2009