Favourite banned book?

[SomeRandom]

Books are constantly banned, restricted and even burned.
So which is your personal fave?
For me I grew up on Harry Potter (ironically I think it was promoted because my educators thought the challenges against the series were dumb.)
Lolita. I don’t know if I love or despise this book. But I can’t deny that it didn’t challenge me as a reader and drunken connoisseur of the “classics.”
To Kill a Mockingbird. A poignant piece about prejudice seen through a child’s eyes.
Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. Ironically constantly challenged or banned or restricted. Both books are absolute bangers and about the dangers of censorship and other authoritarian actions.

What are some of yours?

 

[Viker]

The irony in Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 ever being banned. I have to say they're towards the top of my list.

 

[Harel13]

Harry Potter and To Kill a Mockingbird are banned?

 

[Rival]

Harry Potter and To Kill a Mockingbird are banned?

Some US Christian schools thought HP was teaching witchcraft.

 

[Vee]

Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. Ironically constantly challenged or banned or restricted. Both books are absolute bangers and about the dangers of censorship and other authoritarian actions.

What are some of yours?

I loved Fahrenheit 451 and 1984. They've bee banned??? Really?
Can this world get any crazier?

 

[SomeRandom]

Harry Potter and To Kill a Mockingbird are banned?

Yep. It was banned due to racial language and allegations of sexual assault
'To Kill a Mockingbird' in the hot seat at WA school district | Crosscut.
Harry Potter I think was the tail end of the “Satanic Panic” lol

 

[Viker]

Some US Christian schools thought HP was teaching witchcraft.

HP wasn't?!

 

[Vee]

Some US Christian schools thought HP was teaching witchcraft.

I've never read HP, but shouldn't schools be worried about violent video games and online bullying? Isn't that causing a lot more trouble in schools than books?

 

[Rival]

I've never read HP, but shouldn't schools be worried about violent video games and online bullying? Isn't that causing a lot more trouble in schools than books?

Schools are very broken environments generally and I think the British and US education systems need a complete overhaul.

 

[SomeRandom]

I've never read HP, but shouldn't schools be worried about violent video games and online bullying? Isn't that causing a lot more trouble in schools than books?

Oh god. The shtick against “violent video games.” If ever you want to elicit eyerolls from Gen Xers, millennials and zoomers, mention that you’re against violent video games lol
No doubt there’s issues of bullying and harassment there to be discussed. But games were a part of the new “culture war” garbage lol
So it was beyond dumb. Reminiscent of the McCarthy era, some would say

 

[ChristineM]

The last hero by Terry Pratchett had the honour of being banned by the texas prison system

 

[Harel13]

Some US Christian schools thought HP was teaching witchcraft.

Aww, that's real old news. That was ages ago. Thought there was something recent.

 

[Gargovic Malkav]

Lolita. I don’t know if I love or despise this book.

Never read the book, but it reminds me of French song which was rather popular in my country around the early 2000's and was apparently inspired by or based on that book.

 

[The Hammer]

Yep. It was banned due to racial language and allegations of sexual assault
'To Kill a Mockingbird' in the hot seat at WA school district | Crosscut.
Harry Potter I think was the tail end of the “Satanic Panic” lol

I thought the Satanic panic ended in the 80s?

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I thought the Satanic panic ended in the 80s?

Nope. It stretched into the 90s with things like Judas Priest and Magic the Gathering.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've read a bunch of banned book. One I like that isn't often mentioned is Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickle & Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America.

 

[SomeRandom]

I thought the Satanic panic ended in the 80s?

Lol you wish

 

[Ella S.]

"The Rights of Man" by Thomas Paine. I feel like a lot of banned books are banned due to local politics or obscenity, but this one in particular has humanitarian and deep, philosophical importance.

 

[Ella S.]

I thought the Satanic panic ended in the 80s?

It's still going strong with a lot of evangelical families and Jehovah's Witnesses to this day, especially in the Bible Belt. It never really died. The general population has just become less religious.

 

[Vinayaka]

Bridge to Terabithia ... I taught it several times to Grade 6s. Also, any other Newberry award winner that has been banned.