Banned Books

A banned book is one that has been removed from the shelves of a library, bookstore, or classroom because of its controversial content. In some cases, banned books of the past have been burned and/or refused publication. Possession of banned books has at times been regarded as an act of treason or heresy, which was punishable by death, torture, prison time, or other acts of retribution.

Since there is a large number of banned books, some publishers have specialized in them.

Books are still banned in the 2010s. Nowhere in the world can everything be published, although the prohibitions vary str
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Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel
Dear Manny
Ponyboy
Attack of the Black Rectangles
Different Kinds of Fruit
Our Skin: A First Conversation About Race
Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present
The Story of My Anger
Both Sides Now
Man o' War
Obie Is Man Enough
Roar for Reading
Animal Stories
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Fahrenheit 451
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
The Bluest Eye
Of Mice and Men
Brave New World
Lord of the Flies
The Color Purple
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Giver (Giver, #1)
Beloved
The Hate U Give
Lord of the Flies by William GoldingThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBrave New World by Aldous HuxleyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Livros Censurados ou Proibidos
33 books — 5 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankTo Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. TolkienHarry Potter Series Box Set by J.K. Rowling1984 by George Orwell
Books that Should Not be Banned
50 books — 82 voters

The House on Mango Street by Sandra CisnerosThe Tempest by William ShakespeareA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnBorderlands/La Frontera, the 1st Edition by Gloria E. AnzaldúaVoices of a People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Arizona Banned Books List
85 books — 17 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
929 books — 2,386 voters


Steven Magee
High powered radio frequency (RF) transmitters really need to be reclassified as an industrial application and banned out of residential communities that have developing babies and children.
Steven Magee

Anaïs Nin
The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him, and that is why Puritanism was the most destructive and evil force which ever oppressed people and their literature: it created hypocrisy, perversion, fears, sterility.
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

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