“'The Scarlet Letter,' 'Huckleberry Finn,' 'Catcher in the Rye' and I listened to 'A Brave New World' on tape.”

— Martha McPhail, nurse, Lawrence

“Do any of my old science textbooks count?”

— Austin Pulliam, freelance photographer, Lawrence

“'Sold,' by Patricia McCormick, which is about the sex slave trade in Nepal, and 'Speak,' by Laurie Halse Anderson, which is about a girl who is raped before her first day of high school and is alienated by her peers.”

— Allison Olaes, server, Lawrence

“I don't think so. It wouldn't bother me that it was banned, I just haven't come across any that I wanted to read.”

— Jared Burcham, Kansas University senior, Lawrence