It's Banned Books Week so let's all take a moment to celebrate all the books that took a risk and called society out. To all the authors who realized that innocence isn't protected by ignoring evil, but by standing up to it. And a special shout out to all the people that protected these books and people's, especially children and teenagers, right to love them (I'm looking at you librarians.)
Here's a list of my favorite banned books:
1. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
Commonly challenged for descriptions of rape and use of racial slurs. "Well, duh," said every literary professor ever.
2. Go Ask Alice by Anonymous
Banned for descriptions of drug use and sex. You think that might be the point?
3. Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Can we all just acknowledge how ridiculous it is that a book about protecting childhood innocence is banned to protect children's innocence?
4. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The irony here does not need stating.
5. Looking For Alaska by John Green
I'll let John Green himself explain this one in possibly the most majestically titled Youtube video ever: I Am Not A Pornographer
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