What are your favorite banned or black-listed books?

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If possible, give further details. Where were they banned? By what organizations? etc

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Catcher in the Rye

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Between 1961 and 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. In 19... [show more]

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Dr. Seuss - The Lorax

The Laytonville, California School District challenged this book on grounds that it "criminalizes the forestry industry."

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Henry David Thoreau - Civil Disobedience

http://en.wikipedia....%28Thoreau%29 Removed from US libraries during McCarthyism. Banned in South Afric... [show more]

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Abbie Hoffman - Steal This Book

Banned in the U.S. until the late 1980's. This book was highly controversial because of its anti-government views. http://en.wiki... [show more]

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Ulysses by James Joyce

This one was banned almost everywhere for a long period of time.

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Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer

Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of... [show more]

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Huckleberry Finn

It would be Hilarious that this is always on the banned books list, if it weren't so tragically stupid and point-missing on the part of school boards.

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Heather Has Two Mommies

i bet this book was challenged on the title alone.

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holotone 12 months ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_books

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awkwardly 12 months ago

there are SO many!

http://www.ala.org/a...requently.htm

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