What are some good banned books?

Question

I want a banned book that is really interesting. Is the brave new world a good book? any good books that u read that is banned?

I need to read a banned book in school.Is there anything good banned books that arent boring? how about the brave new world?

No Harry Potter book, please

Im desperate

Answer 1

There are many banned or challenged books. It all depends on what you are looking for.

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress was removed from several school reading lists because of concerns about sex and abortion.

Russell Banks's Rule of the Bone was considered to be inflammatory. It is a cross between Catcher in the Rye and Huckleberry Finn. A fourteen year old boy runs away from an abusive household and takes up with drug selling bikers and a Rastafarian called I-Man.

If you google "Freedom to Read" you will find several lists of books that have been banned or challenged.

And yes, the Bible has also made it onto this list. Look this up to find out why.

Answer 2

A book that is banned today or was banned at one time?

If it doesn't matter.

Both Ulysses and A portrait of the artist as a young man both by James Joyce were banned in France and the US.

Madame Bovary was banned.

The story of the eye was banned (But I don't know if that is suitable for school, or if its suitable for you because I have NO idea how old you are.)

Baudelaire was banned

Of course the Marquis DE Sade was banned

Oscar Wilde was banned

Huxley was banned and Salinger too...

Seems that everything good was banned...

I don't know of anything modern that is presently banned because I don't really read much modern literature.

Answer 3

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is one of my most favorite books, but there are a lot of good "Banned Books" out there. The American Library Association keeps track of all those works that people or groups have challenged and have a "Banned Books Week" encouraging everyone to read those that others try to prevent them from accessing. I loved the Alice books by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and a lot from Judy Blume is challenged.

Check out the ALA website for more info on banned books. (I know it is not extremely easy to navigate, though.)

Answer 4

Almost every book that has any literary merit has been banned at some point. Classics that I would recommend are "The Catcher in the Rye", "To Kill A Mockingbird", "The Autobiography of Malcolm X", "Tess of D'Urbervilles", "The Grapes of Wrath"or "Gone with the Wind" . If you want a more contemporary book with an urban theme, try "The Coldest Winter Ever" by Sista Souljah.

Answer 5

What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones

2005 Most Frequently Challenged Authors

Judy Blume, author of Blubber, Forever, and Deenie
Robert Cormier, author of The Chocolate War and We All Fall Down
Chris Crutcher, author of Whale Talk and The Sledding Hill
Robie Harris, author of It's Perfectly Normal and It's So Amazing!
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, author of the Alice series
Toni Morrison, author of The Bluest Eye, Beloved and Song of Solomon
J. D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye
Lois Lowry, author of The Giver
Marilyn Reynolds, author of Detour for Emmy
Sonya Sones, author of What My Mother Doesn’t Know

Answer 6

The Handmaid's Tale


great book

Answer 7

Go with Dracula, it was banned from many schools because of the brazen sexuality, Satanic aspects and the fact that it has yet to be proven as a ficticious novel

Answer 8

Harry Potter, slughter-House Five, Catcher in the Rye

Answer 9

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Answer 10

Go here for a great site on banned books: http://www.deletecensorship.org/books.html
You can choose from the lists they provide.