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To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 1489 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,765,219 ratings — published 1960
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1363 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,322,652 ratings — published 1949
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1301 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,364,557 ratings — published 1985
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1226 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,765,875 ratings — published 1953
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1221 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,838,820 ratings — published 1951
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1024 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.13 — 293,529 ratings — published 1970
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1023 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,434,628 ratings — published 1945
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 962 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,784,412 ratings — published 1937
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 937 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,042,409 ratings — published 1932
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 936 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,150,342 ratings — published 1954
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 918 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.28 — 743,928 ratings — published 1982
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 899 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,969,765 ratings — published 1999
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 841 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,762,297 ratings — published 1993
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 819 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 482,554 ratings — published 1987
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 810 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,439,542 ratings — published 2003
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 806 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.45 — 996,803 ratings — published 2017
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 778 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.06 — 282,944 ratings — published 2007
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou's Autobiography, #1)
by (shelved 758 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.30 — 574,218 ratings — published 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 734 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,464,728 ratings — published 1969
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 728 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,121,463 ratings — published 1947
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 705 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,729,310 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 697 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,804,025 ratings — published 1925
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Paperback)
by (shelved 652 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,326,695 ratings — published 1884
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 645 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.05 — 626,309 ratings — published 1999
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 622 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.87 — 930,385 ratings — published 1955
Gender Queer: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 610 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.27 — 76,308 ratings — published 2019
All Boys Aren’t Blue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 603 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,400 ratings — published 2020
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 596 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,718,705 ratings — published 2008
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 576 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.02 — 981,075 ratings — published 1939
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 561 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,199,925 ratings — published 1997
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 531 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.00 — 760,078 ratings — published 1962
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 521 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 879,205 ratings — published 1961
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 499 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.20 — 773,101 ratings — published 1962
A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet, #1)
by (shelved 421 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,270,641 ratings — published 1962
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 418 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,018,692 ratings — published 2007
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 414 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.06 — 584,037 ratings — published 1977
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 383 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,562,900 ratings — published 1967
And Tango Makes Three (Hardcover)
by (shelved 369 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.35 — 13,961 ratings — published 2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God (Paperback)
by (shelved 360 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.99 — 381,406 ratings — published 1937
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 354 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.95 — 253,790 ratings — published 1970
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 351 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,340,952 ratings — published 2005
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 341 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.74 — 290,232 ratings — published 1971
Melissa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 336 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.09 — 47,559 ratings — published 2015
Out of Darkness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 328 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.14 — 8,580 ratings — published 2016
Gone With the Wind (Paperback)
by (shelved 313 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,250,040 ratings — published 1936
Crank (Crank, #1)
by (shelved 312 times as banned-books)
avg rating 4.16 — 154,236 ratings — published 2004
Ulysses (Paperback)
by (shelved 310 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.77 — 139,482 ratings — published 1922
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 310 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.50 — 136,169 ratings — published 1928
The Call of the Wild (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 308 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.91 — 465,815 ratings — published 1903
Lawn Boy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 306 times as banned-books)
avg rating 3.83 — 9,885 ratings — published 2018
“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons, and I included not only some descriptions of the various deadly dragon species, and a useful Dragonese Dictionary, but also this story of how the book came to be written in the first place.
This is the book that you are holding in your hands right now.
Perhaps you even borrowed it from a Library?
If so, thank Thor that the sinister figure of the Hairy Scary Librarian is not lurking around a corner, hiding in the shadows, Heart-Slicers at the ready, or that the punishment for your curiosity is not the whirring whine of a Driller Dragon's drill.
You, dear reader, I am sure cannot imagine what it might to be like to live in a world in which books are banned.
For surely such things will never happen in the Future?
Thank Thor that you live in a time and a place where people have the right to live and think and write and read their books in peace, and there are no need for Heroes anymore ...
And spare a thought for those who have not been so lucky.”
― A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
This is the book that you are holding in your hands right now.
Perhaps you even borrowed it from a Library?
If so, thank Thor that the sinister figure of the Hairy Scary Librarian is not lurking around a corner, hiding in the shadows, Heart-Slicers at the ready, or that the punishment for your curiosity is not the whirring whine of a Driller Dragon's drill.
You, dear reader, I am sure cannot imagine what it might to be like to live in a world in which books are banned.
For surely such things will never happen in the Future?
Thank Thor that you live in a time and a place where people have the right to live and think and write and read their books in peace, and there are no need for Heroes anymore ...
And spare a thought for those who have not been so lucky.”
― A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
“It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.”
― The Library at Night
― The Library at Night
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