Banned and/or challenged books that you have read

What books have you read that schools and libraries have banned or challenged because they found the content to be...controversial for lack of a better word?

I've read:

Fahrenheit 451
Brave New World
Slaughterhouse-Five
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Color Purple
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Tom Sawyer
Carrie
The Exorcist
Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories series


Not a lot but it's a start. How about everybody else?

Funny thing is, I read most of these in school and the onyl reason I knew they were banned was because our teachers told us that had been the case, once upon a time:

Uncle Tom's Cabin
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lord of the Flies
The Catcher in the Rye
Animal Farm
Of Mice and Men
Call of the Wild
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn

Frighteningly enough, Fahrenheit 451 still has a lot of people who'd like to see it banned. A couple years ago they had on the news a father and his 10th grade daughter who said it shouldn't be taught because of the swearing and it mentions burning the Bible. Now I'm a Christian myself and I got to ask what the hell? Like it's okay to burn all these other books but the Bible, oooooooooohhh no. For crying out loud, his daughter is in the 10th grade, why hasn't she learned yet that books do have swearing and they don't always say what you want them to?

I lived in a small town with a big library, and once TPTB told the librarians to get rid of banned books, and they absolutely refused and displayed them prominently with a big sign that proclaimed "get your banned books here". I was so proud of them. They never backed down and the whole matter was dropped.

Tom Sawyer is challenged? What ever for?

I read Tom Sawyer and Animal Farm.

For use of the word 'nigger', same as Huckleberry Finn I reckon, and To Kill a Mockingbord.

Supernova wrote:For use of the word 'nigger', same as Huckleberry Finn I reckon, and To Kill a Mockingbord.

lol Kind of ironic considering that wouldn't be my first guess for why they banned it. lol Lame to ban it on that alone. Gosh, sensitive people.

Indeeeeeeeeed, think if they banned movies for the same reasons, how many would that take out of public circulation?

LOL - a ton of them!!!!!

I didn't realize that was the reason those books were banned, Supernova. Our teacher was talking about how, back when Huck Finn was banned, it was partly because of Huck's friendship with Jim, but I think he might have been talking about a really early banning.

Here's mine:

1. To Kill a Mockingbird
2. The Catcher in the Rye
3. Lolita

If anybody's interested, and I'm sure they're not, I'll be going to the library either tomorrow or Saturday, they have a book there ABOUT banned books, covers them up to I think 1950. I read it once before, I'm going to get it again and see from there, what I've read that's been banned, what I haven't read that's been banned, and why they were banned. I do remember one, get this, Dr. Dolittle the children's book was banned due to the fact that sabes que 'animals should not speak the same language as humans', can you believe it?