List of books banned by governments

[NNN0LHI]

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

[Kerrytravelers]

1. When I was a middle school English teacher, during Banned Books week, I always printed

the list of books currently banned and/or heavily challenged throughout the US and gave bonus points to students who read them and wrote a short report/essay on the book. I always told them that the banning of books itself should be banned and that people who want to censor books have a greater agenda than just your widdle precious eyes they are trying to control.

No parent ever bothered me on this.


edit: Here is a link to a list of books I would generally post. I usually got my list from the Librarians Association.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_commonly_challenged_books_in_the_U.S.

[Sinti]

2. My kind of teacher - most excellent. I bet your kids remember you dearly. n/t

[notesdev]

3. Animal Farm, one of the best books ever written

no surprise it also looks like it's the most censored/banned... although The Satanic Verses seems to have a pretty good claim on that title as well.

[intheflow]

4. Here's the American Library Association's current list of banned/challenged books.

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged/2008/index.cfm

and here are the most banned/challenged books of the 21st century: http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged/index.cfm

Read one today!! :thumbsup:

[Nikki Stone1]

5. I love this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Federal-Mafia-Illegally-Unlawfully-Collects/dp/0930374096/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1259985469&sr=1-1

[RedCloud]

6. Don Quixote was never successfully banned by the Spanish Inquisition

It was so popular in Spain, forget about it. And though there was a ban for 250 years against exporting the novel to the New World, the French bootlegged it and so little is said about it today.

[niyad]

7. still have my button which reads, "I read banned books" on occasion (and believe me, I try NOT

to have such conversations, I talk with one of the idiots trying to ban books, and point out that I read in six languages, so, in which language do you plan to ban my reading? and also add that I was reading books in the second grade that they probably still can't comprehend.

[niyad]

8. can't rec, will kick.