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Contents 1 The list 1.1 A - M 1.2 N-Z 2 See also 3 References

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[edit] A - M

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - a book famously banned in a large number of U.S. schools.
• All I Need Is Love - aging actor talks about his love life
• American Psycho - a fictional narrative of a stock broker who lives a double life as a serial killer.
• The Anarchist Cookbook- an informational guide on how to make bombs, explosives,

drugs, and other dangerous activities

• And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson - A children's book about the true story of Roy and Silo, a same-sex Chinstrap penguin couple who hatched an egg of a mixed sex couple and raised a female penguin named Tango. The most challenged book of 2006.
• Animal Farm by George Orwell - satirized the Soviet Union, comparing it to a farm
• Annie on my Mind - a fictional tale about two women who meet and fall in love
• Apocalypse Culture II - probes social taboos
• The Bias Against Guns - states that widespread gun ownership prevents crime and is a net social good
• Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow - states that, with current policies, Canada will be primarily French-speaking in the near future
• The Black Book of Communism - catalogs human rights violations by some Communist states.
• The Calcutta Quran Petition - discusses Hindu/Muslim tensions in India, including several accounts of banning; incidentally, it was itself subject to attempts to ban it
• The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - narrates a young man's journey after expulsion from school, with frequent profanity and mention of sex.
• The Camp of the Saints - predicts uprising of (and revolution by?) minorities in France and then the world.
• Chariots of the Gods - suggests that extraterrestrials have visited Earth and were worshiped as gods.
• A Child Called It - autobiographical account of child abuse
• The Cider House Rules - for support of the pro-choice abortion movement
• Clandestine in Chile:The Adventures of Miguel Littin - discusses an exile secretly visits Chile during Pinochet
• A Clockwork Orange -fictional account of a world ravaged by gangs; containing vivid account of sex and violence
• Collapse - deals with societal collapses involving an environmental component
• The Confessions of Nat Turner - historical novel
• The Conscience of a Conservative - known as a social commentary by Barry Goldwater
• Consciousness Explained - examines mind/brain relationship
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge - dreams of grand unification of sciences and humanities
• The Culture of Critique series - portrays Jewish group behavior/culture as a competitive strategy
• The Da Vinci Code - fictional account wherein characters expose hidden truths the Catholic Church has concealed for centuries, including Christ's divinity, his celibacy and thus the possibility of a genetic heritage. (Jesus' descendants).
• Deadly Deceits (My 25 Years in the CIA) by Ralph McGehee - its publication was delayed for three years by the CIA itself despite much of the book's content already being public knowledge
• Dictionnaire philosophique - Voltaire is critical of society, religion - in alphabetical order
• Dude, Where's My Country? - Michael Moore deals with corporate and political events in the U.S.
• The Emperor's New Mind - subtitled Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics
• The Enemy Within - subtitled Saving America from the Liberal Assault on our Schools, Faith and Military
• Fascinating Womanhood - Helen Andelin - argues that a woman's fulfillment is through serving husband and children and eschewing the workforce
• The Female Eunuch - states that men hate women, causing women's self-hatred and repression
• The Feminine Mystique - states that some women can find fulfillment in non-traditional roles
• Fight Club - throws into light some darker philosophy
• Finnegans Wake - this is in the style of Ulysses, but much more obscure.
• The First Stone - deals with a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, Melbourne
• Flowers For Algernon - depicts the intellectual enhancement, and decline, of a mentally disabled janitor
• Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews discusses a sexual relationship that develops between an adolescent brother and sister
• Forever by Judy Blume - banned in several states for openly discussing adolescent sexuality
• From Time Immemorial - argues that many of the refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war were not native Palestinians
• The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, the British biologist argues that belief in an omnipotent Deity is a delusion, commonly held despite contrary evidence, which has a nett negative impact on society. See also The Dawkins Delusion? - a critique of the former, by christian biochemist Alister McGrath
• God's Politics - why the right are wrong and the left just do not get it
• The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - was often criticized for its vulgar language and cited as socialist propaganda.
• The Green Book - Muammar al-Gaddafi's views on democracy and his political philosophy
• The Harry Potter books - depictions of witchcraft and the supernatural seen as anti-Christian
• Heather Has Two Mommies - about a daughter of a lesbian couple. Seen as pro homosexual by most.
• Hitler's War - David Irving's biography describing the war from Hitler's perspective
• Hogg - a pornographic novel endorsed by Norman Mailer
• The Hollow Hope - subtitled Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (examines judicial activism)
• The Holocaust Industry - subtitled Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
• Homesteading the Noosphere - anthropological examination of Open Source software management
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - says that Africa was held down and used by European colonial regimes.
• In Defense of Internment - subtitled The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror
• Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces
• Jewish History, Jewish Religion - states that Jewish history as told by Israel is ethnocentric
• Like Water for Chocolate - frustrated lovers consummate their love late in life in magical Mexico
• Live from Death Row - memoirs of a cop-killer, reviews long history of blacks in America
• The Lives of John Lennon - critical of Lennon
• Le Livre noir du Canada Anglais - purports injustices in Canada against the Quebecois, Jewish and aboriginal peoples.
• Lolita - deals explicitly with pedophilia
• The Mad Man - a "pornotopic fantasy" (novel)
• The Malay Dilemma - promotes autonomy for the indigenous people of Malaysia
• Mandingo - a novel about violence towards black slaves in antebellum South
• Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man - rebuts the arguments set forth in Michael Moore's books
• Might is Right - discusses Social Darwinism in a way that could be construed as a blunt affirmation of it.
• Josephine Mutzenbacher - 1906 Pornographic novel that graphically depicts the sexual activities of a Viennese girl from ages 5-12.
• The Myth of Islamic Tolerance - subtitled How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims

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• Nickel and Dimed - subtitled On (Not) Getting By in America - Examines "working poor" in post welfare-reform USA
• None Dare Call It Treason - states that there is a communist infiltration in American society, politics and culture
• Of Mice and Men- allegedly promotes euthanasia and anti-business, contains racial slurs
• On the Justice of Roosting Chickens - portrays 9/11 as revenge for Western meddling in Mid-East in 20th century
• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - divides primitive human mind to expressive and obedient parts
• The Origin of Species - revolutionary work which contradicted existing religious beliefs
• The Painted Bird - involves incest, etc.
• Paulicéia Desvairada - poetry that sometimes condemns Brazilian society
• The Plot Against America - alternate history novel where Charles Lindbergh is elected U.S. President in 1940
• A Prison Diary - diary of a former MP and British prisoner in various jails
• The Rage and The Pride - post-9/11 condemnation of Islam as a totalitarian force bent on destroying Western civilisation
• The Real Anita Hill - purports to revealed the real motives of Anita Hill. Later repudiated by its author.
• The Real Lincoln - severely critical view of Lincoln presidency.
• Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower - recommended in a speech by Osama bin Laden in January 2006
• Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
• Samizdat - subtitled And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code
• The Satanic Bible by Anton La Vey
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie - considered blasphemous by many Muslims.
• The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
• Sex - book of explicit sexual fantasies by the famous pop singer Madonna
• Show Boat - Broadway musical with stereotypical portrayal of blacks as socially inferior
• Siege - embraces Charles Manson as a leader for today.
• Starship Troopers - a science fiction novel depicting a lot of warfare. Also considered by many to advocate militaristic anti-democracy, or fascism.
• The Story of Ferdinand - children's book with pacifist themes
• Testimony - supposed the memoirs of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, purporting that he could be, a times, quite rude
• The Truth About Hillary - delves into the sexuality and political ambitions of Hillary Clinton.
• The Turner Diaries - details a fictional white supremacist takeover of the world
• The Two Babylons - states that catholicism is simply renamed paganism and that the Roman Catholic Church is the whore of babylon portrayed in Revelations 17-18
• Unsafe at Any Speed - says that car manufacturers resisted implementing safety features
• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation - pre-Darwin attacks on creationism
• Will They Ever Trust Us Again? - questions military sense of loyalty after invasion of Iraq

[edit] See also

• List of banned books
• List of controversial non-fiction books

[edit] References

1. ^ "Klein nailed on falsehoods in Al Franken Show grilling". Mediamatters. Retrieved on November 29, 2005. (With audio interview with Klein on the lies in his book The Truth About Hillary)