Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read(variety.com)
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Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read
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There's a little known book by William Golding which I think is his true masterpiece and just as controversial as Lord of the Flies. It's Darkness Visible. One of my favorite books of all time about a half-burned boy who becomes a kind of gnostic prophet and a girl who believes she is an instrument of power.
It’s so wild that most of those books were required reads by my public school. So many wonderful books on the list.
> catcher in the rye
Why do people keep trying to censor that one? It seemed completely uncontroversial to me.
Why do people keep trying to censor that one? It seemed completely uncontroversial to me.
Thanks! Saved it.
May as well read a few good books while the world goes crazy. :)
May as well read a few good books while the world goes crazy. :)
Looks like they left out 33 Snowfish, Call Me By Your Name, Gender Queer: A Memoir, and Lawn Boy, which were books parents were actually protesting about because they depict sexual acts between adults and minors.
To the "turner diaries" guy, Revolt Against the Modern World and The Death of the West are supposedly better (regarding actual influence on right-wing thought), but you can't try to ban something if you don't know it exists.
Maus by Art Spiegelman
1984 by George Orwell
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Stamped by Ibram X. Kendi and Jason Reynolds
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Melissa by Alex Gino (previously published as George)
Beloved by Toni Morrison
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D Salinger
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Ulysses by James Joyce