Best Banned, Censored, and Challenged Books
This is a list of books that have at one point either been banned, censored, or requested for removal from libraries.
Theresa
39 books
24 friends
24 friends
Susanna - Censored by GoodReads
3248 books
861 friends
861 friends
Bevin
1537 books
56 friends
56 friends
Eva Marie
6154 books
181 friends
181 friends
Kelly
350 books
4 friends
4 friends
Kim
173 books
62 friends
62 friends
Lindsey
1094 books
20 friends
20 friends
Annie
49 books
8 friends
8 friends
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I'm amazed at the number of children's books listed; and, of those so listed, the number I shared for many years with my students...





Also Gulag Archipelagos, Master and Margarita and many, many more.

I love writing and hope to get a book published someday. If my book were banned, I would feel I was doing something right. Only books with something to say get banned. Be it for religious, moral or magick reasons.


LOL!!! i thought the exact same thing...I also didnt understand why Shel Silverstein's A Light In The Attic was banned.Well i kind of see cause i think there was something about somebody dying or something along the lines like that in there but come on, really? Does anybody know why this book was banned? And i have to agree banning books are horrible well unless...hmmm i see clearly now why they ban so many books...its still not cool though


A book should never be banned! Books allow us to explore places we havenot been and extends the mind of children to where they understand more and think freely and without restraints. Reading should have no consequences nor should we have barriers. Even in schools, books with erotic or romantic scenes shouldn't not be kept on the shelves. All literature is to be enjoyed by all ages.

LOL!!! i thought the exact same thing...I also didnt understand why Shel Silverstein's A Light In T..."
Even if someone dies, what about Wizard of Oz, where a man is hanging from a noose in the background? Banning book just shows the true trophies of modern society, entertainment in the form of watching and being told rather than reading and figuring out. I am apalled that there are banned books at all, especially books as creative as Shel silverstein's Light in the Attic.

"you are an idiot !!!
read some history books or have a conversation with a foreigner or two for a change
the USA is not the center of the world you moron!
just for example the book 1984 by George Orwell was banned in Easter Europe between 1950-1980 and some people were prosecuted and some went jail for having it at home."
I completely agree with you



It's unimaginable to me that some of these books are in/have been on the banned list. Many of them were required reading when I was in high school, and there were several that I purchased for my kids.
Just my opinion, but I have always felt that those who ban books are either of the closed minded group or those who fear that people will learn from them (i.e. Eastern Europe with 1984).

STOP BOOK BANNING! Books are for reading, not burning!


I had to look at your photo twice to make sure it wasn't Jamie Lee Curtis.





its mostly just because it talks about witchcraft. that's the only reason

Surprisingly enough, it's not the only reason. Harry Potter revolts against the current government (Ministry of Magic) and governments feel that this could rouse today's youth into revolting against them.

Surprisingly enough, it's not the only reason. Harry Potter revolts against the current government (Minist..."
ahh i see.


In the words of Walt Whitman: Damn all expurgated books; the dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.
As for banning - it says far more about those doing the banning than the book itself or those who might read it.

I don't know about Judy Blume (I thought she was a 4th grade-ish level book writer??), but I know that Harry Potter was banned from some area Catholic schools because there's magic and that goes against the Bible. Heaven forbid!! As for Catcher in the Rye, I'd assume it's because of the profanity. They think that the kids will actually say the cuss words if they read it.
It's nonsense, really.
I'm not sure anybody really understands except for the ones who do the banning.

Thanks to book-banning, I'm discovering more of the best contemporary books written. :)




I remember when I was younger my dad would get me the Harry Potter books when they came out. My very Catholic grandmother who I lived with at the time took them away from me and hid them (citing witchcraft and all that jazz). Luckily my mom went and got them back for me, but I remember feeling so puzzled because I obviously knew the books were fiction and that magic isn't real. I may have been a kid, that doesn't mean I was stupid, haha. A lot of times I feel like adults go to unnecessary lengths to "shield" children, simultaneously underestimating them and not allowing them to grow and learn on their own.
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