very machina not Peter the church was
supposed to be carried on by a woman few
realize if Mary was descended from Kings
just as her husband you just can’t put
these books down but at one stage you
weren’t allowed to even pick them up
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
books that have been banned tell me this
my dad you gave it to a piece these
please please
for this list we’ve looked at books that
have been banned from sale in some
capacity from the age of big brother
from the age of the thought buddies from
a dead man greetings it doesn’t matter
where the book was banned why it was or
for how long if it was ever taken off
the shelves then it can be featured on
today’s reading list
number ten Lord of the Flies william
golding whoever holds the conch gets to
speak that’s the rule is this like
assembly sir yeah except anybody who
wants to speak gets to commonly
described as one of the greatest novels
of the 20th century Lord of the Flies is
also one of the most brutal depictions
of human character ever written again a
regularly challenged book and ranked
number 68 on the American Library
Association’s list of frequently banned
classics it details the barbaric demise
of a once civilized group of boys
a tale that takes all of the worst
aspects of human nature and watches them
war with one another it’s an
uncomfortably unputdownable read
number nine Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
Mark Twain say what are you doing here
you wouldn’t tell me if I was to tell
you all right I run off Jim I had to
hook
I had to you can’t do that you belong to
the widow the oldest book to feature
today and regularly listed as one of the
great American novels Huckleberry Finn
has forever been subject to sanctions
that sure will be heaven to me and I’ve
got only one person to think and that’s
you hook you know why I’m doing it don’t
you
I don’t know why you’re doing it but
still in all you doing it I don’t think
that even an abolitionist could do a
better job than you’re doing hook don’t
you call me that you ain’t no free state
yet the direct sequel to Twain’s The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer it comes most
under fire for its language and
specifically for frequent racial slurs
oh don’t worry you’re gonna go free I’ll
tell that abolitionists where he can
find you I will turn you in
I don’t see how anybody would wanna sing
like you depicting a southern antebellum
society the likes of which no longer
existed at the time of publishing its
vocabulary was a little outdated even in
the late 1800s oh gosh I was always told
that abolitionists folks were low down
dirty sorrowful nowadays some Huck Finn
terms are considered hugely offensive
and subsequently sensible suppose it is
true that the nigger was inferior to the
white and the gifts of God is if not the
exact reverse of justice that the whites
should take from the Negro any part of
the little which he has number eight
1984 George Orwell
you
an author banned on more than one
occasion George Orwell struggled to get
Animal Farm published because of its
thinly veiled criticism of the USSR
coverage I have made a terrible
discovery there are traitors among us
but we’ve selected 1984 as Orwell’s best
banned book if only for the irony it’s a
beautiful thing the destruction of words
you won’t have seen the dictionary 10th
edition yet Smith fat thick 11
traditionally been thick the novel’s
almost hero Winston Smith lives in a
society ravaged by war and revolution
under constant surveillance Smith 607 9
Smith W yes you bend lower you’re not
trying as he contends with the ultra
restrictive Big Brother Smith’s plight
is appropriately paralleled by various
governments including the Soviet Union
themselves banning the book entirely
whom anything this piece o I’ve anything
you like are you please hopping up a
number 7 the Harry Potter series
JK Rowling neither one can live for the
other one survives it means one of us is
gonna have to kill the other
the end it’s the best-selling book
series in history it’s been translated
into 73 languages but that doesn’t mean
that Harry Potter is beyond the ban
probably full of novels that were narcos
but no I did
the tales of the Boy Who Lived have also
picked up a fair amount of criticism
stupa will talk but how many only he
keep drinking
various religious groups have challenged
the books claiming they promote ideas of
witchcraft the occult and Wicca Wow
where are these two not yet you’re not
I’ve got anything a bit more sporting
heavy yet oh really friends this color
according to the Ala they’re the most
challenged books of the 21st century
treacherous little bleeder said no one
we can trust
number six American Psycho Bret Easton
Ellis because it’s not just about the
pleasures of conformity and the
importance of friends it’s also a
personal statement about the band itself
it’s a novel deemed harmful to minors in
Germany only available to buy or rent if
you’re over 18 in Australia and
generally sold shrink-wrapped in New
Zealand
in short American Psycho caused and
causes quite a stir I really wasn’t that
concerned about morality in my fiction
I think the morality is there basically
because I’m a satirist on a certain
level I’m a satirist and I think within
if you are a satirist you are pointing
out problems that you find in the world
and in society and in the culture famous
for its unflinching portrayal of extreme
violence Bret Easton Ellis actually
received death threats upon its initial
publication tonight I just have to kill
a lot of people a story since adapted to
the big screen with critical acclaim
it’s a really tough reef and a nightmare
tonic for almost anybody
where you going just leaving but where I
have to return some videotapes number
five The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
you want to be careful about writing
things down and pissing people off one
of the most controversial novels ever
written Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic
Verses brought about an actual
assassination such was the level of
offense that it cost Rushdie was accused
of misusing his freedom of speech of
mocking Islam and of referring to the
Prophet Mohammed in a derogatory manner
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeated the
death sentence against the author Salman
Rushdie subsequently in 1989 the Iranian
government issued a fatwa calling on all
Muslims to execute anybody involved in
the book’s publication there were crowds
out today in Tehran welcoming the nine
Iranians expelled by Britain reportedly
for plotting to kill mr. Rushdie Rushdie
himself survived several assassination
plots but in 1991 the novel’s Japanese
translator Ito she
Igarashi was stabbed to death the moment
somebody says yes I believe in free
speech but I stopped listening number
four
mine comes Adolf Hitler in mine camp he
writes if we had just once during the
war used poison gas on 12 or 15 thousand
of those Hebrew corrupters of the people
the sacrifice of millions of men would
not have been in vain the
autobiographical manifesto of probably
the most infamous man ever to have lived
Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf is one of the
most heavily vetted texts on the planet
it’s a horrible book but it is a piece
of history it is a very rare item though
translations are available in most
countries they can prove difficult to
obtain at times in Austria the printing
and or owning of mine Kampf is
prohibited while in Germany the books
copyright is owned by the state of
Bavaria which tries to prevent any
reprinting Bavaria which owns the
publishing rights to Hitler’s book has
said that it will publish an annotated
version of the controversial Nazi
manifesto in order to make future
publication of the book commercially
unattractive however in 2016 that
copyright is scheduled to expire meaning
that more copies could become available
its last passage is this fanatical cry a
state that refuses racial contamination
will inevitably dominate the world
number three
Lolita lady Mir Nabokov
our next novel took its author five
years to write and a further two years
to publish but I want to produce is
really that little sob in the spine of
the artist reader well I leave the field
of ideas still to dr. shush right Center
to dr. Zhivago Vladimir Nabokov finally
settled for a French publication housed
a questionable reputation releasing
Lolita in 1955 following outraged
reviews on the books erotic themes and
the central adult child relationship the
British government swiftly banned the
import of Lolita and France soon
followed suit it eventually appeared in
America in 1958 and reappeared in
Britain in 1959 spite all the fuss and
faces she made and the danger and
hopelessness of it all over my head
despite all that I was in paradise
arguably as controversial now as it was
then
Lolita is definitely not a light read
get out
number two brave new world Aldous Huxley
that’s one of the wonderful things about
being a gamma we’re not too stupid and
we’re not too bright to be a gamma is to
be just right an ironic title if ever
we’ve read one Aldous Huxley’s brave new
world is actually considerably Bleeker
than build but looking good is important
better you look the better you feel it’s
important to feel good if we need if we
look we argue we are good if you want it
you can have it it’s so bleak in fact
the novel’s dystopian drive has led to
it being challenged the world over in
1932 it was banned in Ireland for anti
religious language and if you plan to
say any more filthy things like that
I’ll simply have to ask you to leave
immediately between 32 and 37 banned in
Australia in India in 67 Huxley was
labeled a pornographer
and in 1980 it was removed from
classrooms in Missouri USA continuing a
by now established trend however it’s
also consistently ranked as one of the
greatest novels ever written really
acting like that giving laughing crying
weird it must be some sort of
aberrational pattern I hear there once
was a thing called madness in primitive
time before we crack the spine on our
top pick here are some honorable
mentions that was a real kick and good
for laughs and lashings of the old
ultraviolent
back to the matter muley after what them
dust has done to the land the tenant
system don’t work no ball
they don’t even break even much less
show a profit by one man and the tractor
can handle twelve or fourteen of these
places Heather also has two mommies mama
Jane and Mama Kate anarchy isn’t just a
theory it’s not something you read about
in books it’s a way of life
number one The Catcher in the Rye JD
Salinger Catcher in the Rye sold sixty
million copies that’s an unprecedented
figure and continues to sell by the way
two hundred and fifty thousand copies a
year holden caulfield has long since
established a legendary status within
literature as the epitome of teenage
angst but Caulfield’s language family
values moral codes and rebellious habits
have landed JD Salinger and The Catcher
in the Rye in very hot water very
frequently on page 89 I’d rather push a
guy out the window or chop his head off
with an axe been socking in a job an
incessantly challenged book teachers
have actually been fired for assigning
it and murderers have actually claimed
inspiration after reading it this nitwit
Chapman who shot John Lennon said he did
it because he wanted to draw the
attention of the world to Catcher in the
Rye in 1981 it achieved a curious
balance as the most censored book and
the second most taut book in u.s. public
schools and today it’s our undisputed
best of the band it just crossed all the
lines on every level between old and
young rich and poor
male and female everywhere minions and
me right do you agree with our list what
do you think is the best banned book for
more uncensored top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com it’s all I gotta say
anyone else want the conch
supposed to be carried on by a woman few
realize if Mary was descended from Kings
just as her husband you just can’t put
these books down but at one stage you
weren’t allowed to even pick them up
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top ten
books that have been banned tell me this
my dad you gave it to a piece these
please please
for this list we’ve looked at books that
have been banned from sale in some
capacity from the age of big brother
from the age of the thought buddies from
a dead man greetings it doesn’t matter
where the book was banned why it was or
for how long if it was ever taken off
the shelves then it can be featured on
today’s reading list
number ten Lord of the Flies william
golding whoever holds the conch gets to
speak that’s the rule is this like
assembly sir yeah except anybody who
wants to speak gets to commonly
described as one of the greatest novels
of the 20th century Lord of the Flies is
also one of the most brutal depictions
of human character ever written again a
regularly challenged book and ranked
number 68 on the American Library
Association’s list of frequently banned
classics it details the barbaric demise
of a once civilized group of boys
a tale that takes all of the worst
aspects of human nature and watches them
war with one another it’s an
uncomfortably unputdownable read
number nine Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
Mark Twain say what are you doing here
you wouldn’t tell me if I was to tell
you all right I run off Jim I had to
hook
I had to you can’t do that you belong to
the widow the oldest book to feature
today and regularly listed as one of the
great American novels Huckleberry Finn
has forever been subject to sanctions
that sure will be heaven to me and I’ve
got only one person to think and that’s
you hook you know why I’m doing it don’t
you
I don’t know why you’re doing it but
still in all you doing it I don’t think
that even an abolitionist could do a
better job than you’re doing hook don’t
you call me that you ain’t no free state
yet the direct sequel to Twain’s The
Adventures of Tom Sawyer it comes most
under fire for its language and
specifically for frequent racial slurs
oh don’t worry you’re gonna go free I’ll
tell that abolitionists where he can
find you I will turn you in
I don’t see how anybody would wanna sing
like you depicting a southern antebellum
society the likes of which no longer
existed at the time of publishing its
vocabulary was a little outdated even in
the late 1800s oh gosh I was always told
that abolitionists folks were low down
dirty sorrowful nowadays some Huck Finn
terms are considered hugely offensive
and subsequently sensible suppose it is
true that the nigger was inferior to the
white and the gifts of God is if not the
exact reverse of justice that the whites
should take from the Negro any part of
the little which he has number eight
1984 George Orwell
you
an author banned on more than one
occasion George Orwell struggled to get
Animal Farm published because of its
thinly veiled criticism of the USSR
coverage I have made a terrible
discovery there are traitors among us
but we’ve selected 1984 as Orwell’s best
banned book if only for the irony it’s a
beautiful thing the destruction of words
you won’t have seen the dictionary 10th
edition yet Smith fat thick 11
traditionally been thick the novel’s
almost hero Winston Smith lives in a
society ravaged by war and revolution
under constant surveillance Smith 607 9
Smith W yes you bend lower you’re not
trying as he contends with the ultra
restrictive Big Brother Smith’s plight
is appropriately paralleled by various
governments including the Soviet Union
themselves banning the book entirely
whom anything this piece o I’ve anything
you like are you please hopping up a
number 7 the Harry Potter series
JK Rowling neither one can live for the
other one survives it means one of us is
gonna have to kill the other
the end it’s the best-selling book
series in history it’s been translated
into 73 languages but that doesn’t mean
that Harry Potter is beyond the ban
probably full of novels that were narcos
but no I did
the tales of the Boy Who Lived have also
picked up a fair amount of criticism
stupa will talk but how many only he
keep drinking
various religious groups have challenged
the books claiming they promote ideas of
witchcraft the occult and Wicca Wow
where are these two not yet you’re not
I’ve got anything a bit more sporting
heavy yet oh really friends this color
according to the Ala they’re the most
challenged books of the 21st century
treacherous little bleeder said no one
we can trust
number six American Psycho Bret Easton
Ellis because it’s not just about the
pleasures of conformity and the
importance of friends it’s also a
personal statement about the band itself
it’s a novel deemed harmful to minors in
Germany only available to buy or rent if
you’re over 18 in Australia and
generally sold shrink-wrapped in New
Zealand
in short American Psycho caused and
causes quite a stir I really wasn’t that
concerned about morality in my fiction
I think the morality is there basically
because I’m a satirist on a certain
level I’m a satirist and I think within
if you are a satirist you are pointing
out problems that you find in the world
and in society and in the culture famous
for its unflinching portrayal of extreme
violence Bret Easton Ellis actually
received death threats upon its initial
publication tonight I just have to kill
a lot of people a story since adapted to
the big screen with critical acclaim
it’s a really tough reef and a nightmare
tonic for almost anybody
where you going just leaving but where I
have to return some videotapes number
five The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie
you want to be careful about writing
things down and pissing people off one
of the most controversial novels ever
written Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic
Verses brought about an actual
assassination such was the level of
offense that it cost Rushdie was accused
of misusing his freedom of speech of
mocking Islam and of referring to the
Prophet Mohammed in a derogatory manner
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has repeated the
death sentence against the author Salman
Rushdie subsequently in 1989 the Iranian
government issued a fatwa calling on all
Muslims to execute anybody involved in
the book’s publication there were crowds
out today in Tehran welcoming the nine
Iranians expelled by Britain reportedly
for plotting to kill mr. Rushdie Rushdie
himself survived several assassination
plots but in 1991 the novel’s Japanese
translator Ito she
Igarashi was stabbed to death the moment
somebody says yes I believe in free
speech but I stopped listening number
four
mine comes Adolf Hitler in mine camp he
writes if we had just once during the
war used poison gas on 12 or 15 thousand
of those Hebrew corrupters of the people
the sacrifice of millions of men would
not have been in vain the
autobiographical manifesto of probably
the most infamous man ever to have lived
Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf is one of the
most heavily vetted texts on the planet
it’s a horrible book but it is a piece
of history it is a very rare item though
translations are available in most
countries they can prove difficult to
obtain at times in Austria the printing
and or owning of mine Kampf is
prohibited while in Germany the books
copyright is owned by the state of
Bavaria which tries to prevent any
reprinting Bavaria which owns the
publishing rights to Hitler’s book has
said that it will publish an annotated
version of the controversial Nazi
manifesto in order to make future
publication of the book commercially
unattractive however in 2016 that
copyright is scheduled to expire meaning
that more copies could become available
its last passage is this fanatical cry a
state that refuses racial contamination
will inevitably dominate the world
number three
Lolita lady Mir Nabokov
our next novel took its author five
years to write and a further two years
to publish but I want to produce is
really that little sob in the spine of
the artist reader well I leave the field
of ideas still to dr. shush right Center
to dr. Zhivago Vladimir Nabokov finally
settled for a French publication housed
a questionable reputation releasing
Lolita in 1955 following outraged
reviews on the books erotic themes and
the central adult child relationship the
British government swiftly banned the
import of Lolita and France soon
followed suit it eventually appeared in
America in 1958 and reappeared in
Britain in 1959 spite all the fuss and
faces she made and the danger and
hopelessness of it all over my head
despite all that I was in paradise
arguably as controversial now as it was
then
Lolita is definitely not a light read
get out
number two brave new world Aldous Huxley
that’s one of the wonderful things about
being a gamma we’re not too stupid and
we’re not too bright to be a gamma is to
be just right an ironic title if ever
we’ve read one Aldous Huxley’s brave new
world is actually considerably Bleeker
than build but looking good is important
better you look the better you feel it’s
important to feel good if we need if we
look we argue we are good if you want it
you can have it it’s so bleak in fact
the novel’s dystopian drive has led to
it being challenged the world over in
1932 it was banned in Ireland for anti
religious language and if you plan to
say any more filthy things like that
I’ll simply have to ask you to leave
immediately between 32 and 37 banned in
Australia in India in 67 Huxley was
labeled a pornographer
and in 1980 it was removed from
classrooms in Missouri USA continuing a
by now established trend however it’s
also consistently ranked as one of the
greatest novels ever written really
acting like that giving laughing crying
weird it must be some sort of
aberrational pattern I hear there once
was a thing called madness in primitive
time before we crack the spine on our
top pick here are some honorable
mentions that was a real kick and good
for laughs and lashings of the old
ultraviolent
back to the matter muley after what them
dust has done to the land the tenant
system don’t work no ball
they don’t even break even much less
show a profit by one man and the tractor
can handle twelve or fourteen of these
places Heather also has two mommies mama
Jane and Mama Kate anarchy isn’t just a
theory it’s not something you read about
in books it’s a way of life
number one The Catcher in the Rye JD
Salinger Catcher in the Rye sold sixty
million copies that’s an unprecedented
figure and continues to sell by the way
two hundred and fifty thousand copies a
year holden caulfield has long since
established a legendary status within
literature as the epitome of teenage
angst but Caulfield’s language family
values moral codes and rebellious habits
have landed JD Salinger and The Catcher
in the Rye in very hot water very
frequently on page 89 I’d rather push a
guy out the window or chop his head off
with an axe been socking in a job an
incessantly challenged book teachers
have actually been fired for assigning
it and murderers have actually claimed
inspiration after reading it this nitwit
Chapman who shot John Lennon said he did
it because he wanted to draw the
attention of the world to Catcher in the
Rye in 1981 it achieved a curious
balance as the most censored book and
the second most taut book in u.s. public
schools and today it’s our undisputed
best of the band it just crossed all the
lines on every level between old and
young rich and poor
male and female everywhere minions and
me right do you agree with our list what
do you think is the best banned book for
more uncensored top 10s published every
day be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com it’s all I gotta say
anyone else want the conch
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