Mayor Gene McGee has informed the Ridgeland Library that the city’s funding will not pay the library unless/until books with homosexual content and/or sexual content are removed. The mayor did not provide a list of books, just subject matter. Friends of the Ridgeland Library created a list of subject matter and authors they would be required to remove from the shelves...
Biology and medicine texts (human bodies without clothing, explanations of reproduction)
Self-help (Dr. Spock, Dr. Ruth Westheimer)
Art (Michelangelo, Picasso, Bernini, Manet, Ruben, Cezanne, Bosch)
Poetry (Walt Whitman, Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, e.e. cummings)
History (Crusades, Inquisition, Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Holocaust)
Psychology (Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey)
Biography (Bill Clinton, Marilyn Monroe, Thomas Jefferson, Rock Hudson)
Autobiography (Richard Wright, Virginia Woolf, Franklin Roosevelt)
Religion (Ezekiel, Song of Songs, Quran)
Their fiction section would lose...
William Shakespeare
Ernest Hemingway
Margaret Mitchell
Sophocles
William Golding
Daniel Silva
James Baldwin
Jim Harrison
David Baldacci
Fannie Flagg
Joseph Heller
Bram Stoker
Homer
Ace Atkins
Toni Morrison
Janet Evanovich
Jesmyn Ward
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ray Bradbury
Khaled Hosseini
Lee Child
Willie Morris
Danielle Steel
Michael Koryta
Nora Roberts
Richard Wright
Linda Castillo
Philip Roth
Alex Haley
Colleen McCullough
Diana Gabaldon
Mark Twain
Jean Auel
Charlaine Harris
Harlan Coben
Jodi Picoult
Geoffrey Chaucer
John Grisham
Anne Rice
Neil Gaiman
Isabel Allende
James Lee Burke
Lewis Carroll
D.H. Lawrence
James Joyce
William Faulkner
George Orwell
Paulo Coelho
J.K. Rowling
Harold Robbins
Mario Puzo
Angie Thomas
John Sanford
Rita Mae Brown
E.M. Forster
Zora Neal Hurston
Jeffery Deaver
Stuart Woods
Truman Capote
Daphne du Maurier
Virginia Woolf
James Patterson
Oscar Wilde
J.D. Salinger
Madeline Miller
Tennessee Williams
Sidney Sheldon
Greg Isles
Louise Erdrich
Herman Melville
Alice Walker
Ayn Rand
John Steinbeck
Gore Vidal
Harper Lee
and on and on and on and on.
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