I Enjoy Reading Books,

but every so often a book for what ever reason is banned,

a government or a library dictates a book is banned because of religion, politics, sex, society, race, and increasingly issues of gender have been cited as reasons to challenge a book, so here are a few banned books, that some of us are or have been banned from reading, Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel The Satanic Verses has been a source of controversy since its publication and has promoted perhaps the most violent reaction to a book in our modern history. Condemned for blasphemy against Islam, the book has been banned in multiple countries, including Pakistan and India,

The Handmaid’s Tale has remained a popular classic since its publication in the mid-1980s. A favorite for college curriculums and A.P. literature courses, the story of a dystopian society where fertile white women are forcefully bred for the upper ruling class tackles serious issues about religion, politics, and women’s rights,

To Kill a Mockingbird has been one of the most challenged books since its publication due to racial slurs, profanity, and frank discussion of rape. Other people have argued that it should be removed from school curriculums because of the ‘white savior complex’ it asserts and the shallow racist stereotypes of many black characters in the novel. Still, the book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961, is widely taught in schools, and has sold more than 40 million copies,

with sexual content, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, and the foul language of its 16-year-old protagonist Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye, has it all,

and an old favourite, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884 in the U.K. and Canada, the book is both celebrated for its authentic vernacular and criticized for its vulgar language and racial slurs, today the novel remains one of the most challenged in school systems, primarily because of the repeated use of racial epithets, there are of course many more that you can find here, but what have all of these books got in common? they were all at some time banned in the land of the free, no not Scotland, America!