What were the names and authors of the books Sarah Palin was trying to ban from the library?

It's unknown -- the librarian was so opposed to the principle of censorship that the conversation didn't get very far. The next act in the play was that Sarah tried to fire the librarian.

The more I read about this alleged incident, the less convinced I am it happened. That Palin ever tried to actually ban any books has not been demonstrated to my satisfaction.

From the December 1996 article on which this whole story is based:

"Emmons said she has been offered help if it is ever needed on censorship issues from the state library association's Intellectual Freedom Committee and the National Freedom to Read Foundation."

http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2008/09/06/br...

From a September 4, 2008 article:

"Were any books censored [or] banned? June Pinell-Stephens, chairwoman of the Alaska Library Association’s Intellectual Freedom Committee since 1984, checked her files Wednesday and came up empty-handed.

"Pinell-Stephens also had no record of any phone conversations with Emmons about the issue back then. Emmons was president of the Alaska Library Association at the time."

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/2008/view.bg?art...

So the big question is, if Palin tried to ban books, why didn't Emmons call Pinell-Stephens for help? Could it be because Palin DIDN'T try to ban any books?

Emmons also said "the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) would get involved, too."

The story of Palin "trying to ban books" is all over the Internet and the media. You'd think SOMEONE would call the ACLU and ask if they have a file on this case, right? So why haven't we heard anything from the ACLU about it? Could it be because Palin DIDN'T try to ban any books, and therefore Emmons never called the ACLU?

EDIT: According to a document from the City of Wasilla, only four library items have been challenged, and all four of these challenges occurred either well before or well after Palin was mayor. Go to http://www.cityofwasilla.com/index.aspx?page=136 and click on "Banned or Censured Books Response."

The librarian would not tell Palin how to ban books and that is as far as it got. This is not according to the librarian however, as she has not been reached for comment.

News reports from the time do show that Palin tried to fire the librarian for not fully cooperating with her however, which kind of gives good backing to the story I would say.

Read this...the bogus Sarah Palin banned books list:

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/06/the-bogus-sar...

As I understand what happened is that Palin asked the librarian if she would be willing to ban books, the librarian said no, so no specific books were mentioned.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi...

I find it a little scary that Palin thinks it is part of the job of a mayor is to oversee the selection of books for the library.

No one knows, which is good reason to claim that the whole story is BullSh#t.

Some random librarian claiming nonsense that she has no evidence to back up. Likely, that librarian is an Obama supporter who just wanted to sling mud.

It's a completely false story.

This is the list of books Palin tried to have banned. As many of you will notice it is a hit parade for book burners.

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Blubber by Judy Blume

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Canterbury Tales by Chaucer

Carrie by Stephen King

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Christine by Stephen King

Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cujo by Stephen King

Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen

Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite

Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

Decameron by Boccaccio

East of Eden by John Steinbeck

Fallen Angels by Walter Myers

Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Forever by Judy Blume

Grendel by John Champlin Gardner

Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling

Have to Go by Robert Munsch

Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman

How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Impressions edited by Jack Booth

In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak

It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein

Lysistrata by Aristophanes

More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier

My House by Nikki Giovanni

My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara

Night Chills by Dean Koontz

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ordinary People by Judith Guest

Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective

Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Separate Peace by John Knowles

Silas Marner by George Eliot

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

The Bastard by John Jakes

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth

The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder

The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks

The Living Bible by William C. Bower

The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman

The Pigman by Paul Zindel

The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders

The Shining by Stephen King

The Witches by Roald Dahl

The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder

Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff

Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth