Big Featured Discussions | September 29, 2010 | 12 comments

What are your favorite banned books?

We're in the middle of Banned Books Week. The event celebrates our freedom to read what we want and draws attention to literary censorship and attempted book bans.

Check out the Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books for 200-2009. Classics like The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Bluest Eye and (ahem) the Goosebumps series all appear on this list.

Why is Banned Books Week important? Are you reading anything for Banned Books Week? What are your favorite banned books?

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12 comments // What are your favorite banned books?

  • Raffielo
  • Meru
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      Meru  

    • Wow my sister and I read a lot of the books listed on there I didnt know they were challenged books (o.o) Why the heck would they try to ban Captain Underpants and the Goosebump series???

    • 1 year ago
  • UrbanGypsy
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      UrbanGypsy  

    • Let us take a step back and be grateful for this country where there is really no such thing as "banned books." We celebrate Banned Books Week for God's sake!

      There are many other places around the world where people actually are banned from reading all kinds of books; from the most controversial political pieces to the most innocent works of poetry. We live in a place that celebrates openness to ideas. In fact, many of the books on the list are actually assigned in many schools as part of the reading curriculum.

      My grandmother, who is a History professor at the University of Havana has her own drawer full of actual banned books in Cuba. Her favorite is The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli. I cannot truly say I have a favorite banned book, because to say so would be to say that there is such a thing as banned books in this country. Here we have the freedom to get any book we want and there is no one to tell us that we are wrong for doing so.

    • 1 year ago
  • indianagiordani
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      indianagiordani  
    • UrbanGypsy:

      i was just about to ask a "dumb-question" and say we ban books, but thanks for making it absolutely clear for me, because i havent come across a book that was labeled banned, only banned in middle-school but not to the general public

    • 1 year ago
  • JanforGore
  • Einsam_Data_Old
  • JanforGore
  • jeffissleeping
  • themotivateddropout
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      themotivateddropout  

    • I'm finding it hard to choose between Slaughterhouse-five, Fahrenheit 451, Grendel, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
      And Goosebumps, Scary Stories, and Harry Potter made me a reader in the first place.
      Plus I love Catcher in the Rye, A Wrinkle in Time, Of Mice and Men, and To Kill a Mockingbird. And The Adventures of Huck Finn. And The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

      Damn.
      It's just a giant list of books I like.

      Didn't 1984 and Animal Farm have some problems as well.

    • 1 year ago
  • QuestionGeek
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      QuestionGeek  

    • So this is a free country, and we actually "burn" books? LOL!! What a joke. There used to be a good book I read while I was adolescence that talked about what kinds of sexual feelings you'd have when you reach puberty with explicit pictures of a guy jacking off, etc.. It was quickly taken off the market. I forgot the name of it. Another one is called American Corporate Crime and Corruption or something to that effect. It quickly went out of print, not because it wasn't selling well, but because of lobbyists.

    • 1 year ago
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  • CalgarC
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