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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1498 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,779,793 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1379 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,341,523 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1315 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,372,431 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1234 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,775,070 ratings — published 1953
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1226 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,846,053 ratings — published 1951
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1040 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,449,850 ratings — published 1945
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1035 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 294,736 ratings — published 1970
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 972 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,790,982 ratings — published 1937
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 947 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,156,804 ratings — published 1954
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 940 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,047,193 ratings — published 1932
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 926 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.28 — 745,223 ratings — published 1982
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 907 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,973,824 ratings — published 1999
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 847 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,767,969 ratings — published 1993
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 823 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.98 — 483,759 ratings — published 1987
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 817 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,446,621 ratings — published 2003
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 816 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.45 — 998,685 ratings — published 2017
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 784 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.06 — 283,272 ratings — published 2007
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 768 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.30 — 575,306 ratings — published 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 742 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,467,279 ratings — published 1969
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 733 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,130,506 ratings — published 1947
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 716 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,731,725 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 704 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,817,627 ratings — published 1925
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by (shelved 650 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,329,717 ratings — published 1885
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 649 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 627,072 ratings — published 1999
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 627 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.87 — 932,700 ratings — published 1955
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 612 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.27 — 76,827 ratings — published 2019
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 611 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,853 ratings — published 2020
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 601 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,740,956 ratings — published 2008
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 580 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.02 — 983,028 ratings — published 1939
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 563 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,227,536 ratings — published 1997
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 539 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,676 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 522 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 880,338 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 499 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 774,175 ratings — published 1962
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 422 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,271,959 ratings — published 1962
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 421 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,019,535 ratings — published 2007
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 417 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.06 — 584,826 ratings — published 1977
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 385 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,567,646 ratings — published 1967
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 372 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.36 — 13,993 ratings — published 2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 365 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 382,160 ratings — published 1937
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 358 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.95 — 254,095 ratings — published 1970
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 354 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,343,774 ratings — published 2005
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 340 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 290,505 ratings — published 1971
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 338 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,588 ratings — published 2015
Out of Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 330 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,608 ratings — published 2016
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 320 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.16 — 154,437 ratings — published 2004
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 315 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,251,040 ratings — published 1936
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 313 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.50 — 136,439 ratings — published 1928
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.91 — 466,773 ratings — published 1903
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 307 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.76 — 136,699 ratings — published 1922
Lawn Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 307 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 9,928 ratings — published 2018
“Censorship and the suppression of reading materials are rarely about family values and almost always about control; About who is
snapping the whip, who is saying no, and who is saying go. Censorship's bottom line is this: if the novel Christine offends me, I don't want just to make sure it's kept from my kid; I want to make sure it's kept from your kid, as well, and all the kids. This bit of intellectual arrogance, undemocratic and as old as time, is best expressed this way: "If it's bad for me and my family, it's bad for everyone's family."
Yet when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea, I'm never much disturbed not as a citizen, not as a writer, not even as a schoolteacher . . . which I used to be. What I tell kids is, Don't get mad, get even. Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know.”
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snapping the whip, who is saying no, and who is saying go. Censorship's bottom line is this: if the novel Christine offends me, I don't want just to make sure it's kept from my kid; I want to make sure it's kept from your kid, as well, and all the kids. This bit of intellectual arrogance, undemocratic and as old as time, is best expressed this way: "If it's bad for me and my family, it's bad for everyone's family."
Yet when books are run out of school classrooms and even out of school libraries as a result of this idea, I'm never much disturbed not as a citizen, not as a writer, not even as a schoolteacher . . . which I used to be. What I tell kids is, Don't get mad, get even. Don't spend time waving signs or carrying petitions around the neighborhood. Instead, run, don't walk, to the nearest nonschool library or to the local bookstore and get whatever it was that they banned. Read whatever they're trying to keep out of your eyes and your brain, because that's exactly what you need to know.”
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“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. In the long run it will create a generation incapable of appreciating the difference between independence of thought and subservience.”
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