Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read

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Here's the complete list.

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

Thanks! Saved it.

May as well read a few good books while the world goes crazy. :)

> catcher in the rye

Why do people keep trying to censor that one? It seemed completely uncontroversial to me.

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.

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.

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