Banned books include books and other printed works that are prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted. It’s a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral or commercial motives. For example, the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov is banned in several countries for being too obscene. Have you ever read any books considered ‘banned’? If yes, what did you think of it?
Here are some lists of banned books:
Books banned by governments
Banned books index
I’ve read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Weird choice of a book to ban…
Most of the reasons that were given on that Wikipedia list I certainly did not agree with as valid reasons to ban books, but that’s more the fault of terrible regimes than anything else
Kinda related- I have a teacher who grew up in a very communist regime… they literally burned and banned books about their history and rewrote them.
Banned books are a way to keep information from the masses in my opinion, the books that literally say (without saying it) fück you on every page are the ones the government can’t handle for concerns of unrest or possible rebellion. It should be up to the person to decide whether or not banned books should be or not been read by themselves. Books clue you in and contain powerful words that may sway the reader but banning a book over obscenity is not a governments place, there’s a book called Catcher in the Rye that’s banned from multiple schools for obscenity (use of the n-word) but really it’s a front for keeping the book that says fùck all of this out of the hands of their students which deprives them of learning about the world.
If people really should ban stories, how about we start with the ones that romanticize non-consensual relationships?
I had to do a presentation on a banned book in eleventh grade.
Cool! Which book did you choose?
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. It was the second time I’d read it. I remembered I’d likred it, so I read it again.
Cool.
(funny enough, I don’t think it’s banned in Canada. It was an option for a project I had in my tenth grade English class)
Oh cool! What was the project?
It was just an independent study project. We each had to read a book and watch the corresponding movie.
There’s a movie?
While I do know about alot of the books on this list I haven’t read many of them 
Fahrenheit 451 is really good. I read it in 12th grade.
wow i’m really late but!
i’ve taken a couple classes about banned books and stories, those classes have been my favourites
we read A LOT of things but the most memorable to me are De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, Howl by Allen Ginsberg, Lazarillo de Tormes (no known author) and Feliz Ano Novo by Rubem Fonseca
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