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
The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature
One of the Boys
Dear Manny (Dear Martin, #3)
Ponyboy
All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Answers in the Pages
Wake Now in the Fire: A Graphic Novel
Stamped from the Beginning [Graphic Edition]: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
The Story of My Anger
No Rules Tonight: A Graphic Novel
Obie Is Man Enough
Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Boy
Different Kinds of Fruit
Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present
To Kill a Mockingbird
1984
The Handmaid's Tale
Fahrenheit 451
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
The Bluest Eye
Brave New World
Of Mice and Men
Lord of the Flies
The Color Purple
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Giver (Giver, #1)
Beloved
The Kite Runner

D.H. Lawrence
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women.
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover

Germaine Greer
Above all, for his merciless, contemptuous treatment of Clifford Chatterley, blown to bits in Flanders in 1918, Lawrence can be damned to hell. Damned but not banned.
Germaine Greer

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