List of books Palin supposedly banned is an urban legend

Over at OpEd News, Rob Kall, posts on the latest urban legend: the list of books Sarah Palin supposedly wanted Wasilla's librarian to ban. Problem is there is no such real list.

I hope you haven't embarrassed yourself by forwarding this or similar emails!

Here is a portion of Kall's post --

I must have received ten of these emails telling me that this was THE list of books Sarah banned or attempted to ban from the Wasilla library when she was mayor. Save yourself from having to apologize to the list of people you would have forwarded this to. It's a bogus list, probably one assembled by adlebooks, here. They say it's an incomplete list of books that others have attempted to ban over the years.

Here's one of the many emails I received that is providing bad information:

Palin's Banned Books

*The following is a partial list of books that Sarah Palin tried to get banned when she was mayor of Wasilla. For the complete list, please click on this article. *

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O'Hara
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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
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 Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff

This list probably came from a list assembled by Adler Books, a bookseller, here where they state, "Books Banned at One Time or Another in the United States,"making a qualifying remark that it's an incomplete list.

You can read the complete story HERE.