The person who made this image and reasoning behind including books: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/the-anarchonomicon-real-banned-book
And followup: https://www.anarchonomicon.com/p/addendum-the-most-banned-book
What banned/controversial books have you guys read? Which would you recommend? Are there any books that should be on this list but aren't?
Personally I think this list needs to include Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors which is currently the only book where the publisher has been successfully sued for a crime committed by the reader. Also I have no idea why Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses isn't included considering there is a bounty on the translators of the book.
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Does reading To Kill a Mockingjay and Animal Farm for my high school literature class count? I found them to be quite interesting stories - especially since they painted neat pictures of (somewhat) idyllic life out in a small English farm, or a turn-of-the-century small town in America. Admiteddly, I had a pretty dang active imagination as a kid, I was probably more invested in following along than most other classmates lol.
Also, it's not as classic literature, but I've spent much of my younger days being a huge Captain Underpants fan. I would nag my parents to buy the new book every time they came out! I was especially stoked for when the series got back after it took a rather long break from 2006 to 2012. It's charming, and even funny in ways that go beyond "haha funny toliet humor", though I do admit that this may be the nostalgia goggles talking. I included this because the Captain Underpants series was reportedly banned a lot in elementary and middle schools (which made sense, considering that they were released back in the 90s and 00s where both leftoids and rightoids dedicated much time to censoring shit "for the kids")...but hey, I ain't afraid to admit that Pilkey is what got me into books
!zoomers who else remembers those books?
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i cant find a good copy of it but i remember there being a "flip-o-rama" song that was on some cd that came with the captain underpants books
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