Forbidden READS Most-searched banned books

In observance of Banned Book Week (which just ended), Internet giant Yahoo did what it does best: It curled up with a good computer to find out which contested tomes continue to entice readers and searchers to their forbidden pages. The 25 most-recent movers and shakers to top the list in the last week were:

1 “Harry Potter” (Series) (J.K. Rowling)

2. “Gossip Girl” (series) (Cecily von Ziegesar)

3. “To Kill a Mockingbird” (Harper Lee)

4. “Goosebumps” (Series) (R.L. Stine)

5. “The Outsiders” (S.E. Hinton)

6. “Lord of the Flies” (William Golding)

7. “Where’s Waldo” (Martin Hanford)

8. “Of Mice and Men” (John Steinbeck)

9. “The Catcher in the Rye” (J.D. Salinger)

10. “Jumper” (Steven Gould)

11. “Bridge to Terabithia” (Katherine Paterson)

12. “Junie B. Jones” (Series) (Barbara Park)

13. “The Giver” (Lois Lowry)

14. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (Mark Twain)

15. “Captain Underpants” (Dav Pilkey)

16. “Flowers for Algernon” (Daniel Keyes)

17. “Brave New World” (Aldous Huxley)

18. “American Psycho” (Bret Easton Ellis)

19. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” (Ken Kesey)

20. “The Lovely Bones” (Alice Sebold)

21. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” (Maya Angelou)

22. “James and the Giant Peach” (Roald Dahl)

23. “The Things They Carried” (Tim O’Brien)

24. “Go Ask Alice” (anonymous)

25. “A Time to Kill” (John Grisham)

SOURCE: Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com)