More books that have been banned or challenged

With the help of Banned Books by Robert P. Doyle (025.213 DOY), I have a list of four more books that have been banned or challenged in the United States.

Final Exit by Derek Humphry (362.28 HUM) Nonfiction
This New York Times best-seller discusses a very controversial issue: offering people who are terminally ill choices on how and when to end their lives. This book was challenged at the Cook Memorial Library in Libertyville, IL, in 1991 because it discusses assisted suicide and drug use.


Never Cry Wolf by Farley Mowat (593.773 MOW) Nonfiction
Mowat, a biologist for the Canadian government spent an Arctic summer watching and tracking a family of wolves. Banned from the Panama City, FL, school classrooms and libraries in 1987 because of bad language.


In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen (305.897 MAT) Nonfiction
The author researched thousands of pages of documents from both the FBI and the Indians to reveal the treatment of the Indians in 196s and '70s. South Dakota Governor William J. Janklow sued three bookstores for not stopping the sale of this book in their store.


365 Days by Ronald J. Glaser (959.7 GLA) Nonfiction
The author is a former Major, United States Army Medical Corps stationed as a pediatrician in a Japanese hospital which averaged six to eight thousand patients a month. This book was banned in Baileyville, ME, in 1982.

c Waterloo Public Library 2007