Banned Books Week is the annual celebration of the freedom to read.
Did you know that the following famous books were banned at some point?
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain, Twain’s book is one of the most challenged of all time and is frequently challenged even today because of its frequent use of the word “nigger.”
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller – In 1972, a school board in refused to allow the book to be taught in high school English classrooms.
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee, some have called it a degrading, profane and racist work that “promotes white supremacy.”
There are many others to add to the list, such as Gone With The Wind, The Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath and more, but continue reading below to pick a new book that has yet to be challenged.
If you enjoyed The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley, you'll love Apollo's Raven!
A Celtic warrior princess is torn between her forbidden love for the enemy and duty to her people.
AWARD-WINNING APOLLO’S RAVEN sweeps you into an epic Celtic tale of forbidden love, mythological adventure, and political intrigue in Ancient Rome and Britannia. In 24 AD British kings hand-picked by Rome to rule are fighting each other for power. King Amren’s former queen, a powerful Druid, has cast a curse that Blood Wolf and the Raven will rise and destroy him. The king’s daughter, Catrin, learns to her dismay that she is the Raven and her banished half-brother is Blood Wolf.
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If you enjoyed Lord of the Flies by William Golding, you'll love Water Ghosts!
“I see things other people don't see; I hear things other people don't hear.”Fifteen-year-old James McCafferty is an unwilling sailor aboard a traditional Chinese Junk operated as adventure-therapy for troubled teens. Once at sea, James believes the ship is being taken over by the spirits of courtiers who fled the Imperial palace during the Ming Dynasty, more than 600 years earlier, and sailing to its doom. A nautical adventure and contemporary teen life story with strong historical, paranormal, and supernatural elements.
“Collison's vivacious and determined narrator will remind readers of books like American Gods and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However, the novel's intense plot and memorable cast of characters is wholly unique.” — Booklife Prize 8.25/10
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If you enjoyed City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, you'll love CERIC!
CERIC
She's feisty, a real fire cracker but as sexy as hell. She's constantly getting herself and the others into trouble, but she's MINE. She thinks that she can just walk into danger and i will let her, but now she has the MC and me to keep her safe.
NOVA
He's bossy, arrogant and possessive, but so damn hot. He thinks he can tell me what to do. He will have to earn my obedience, and prove to me that he's mine!
CERIC is a steamy possessive, alpha male romance with guaranteed HEA, no cheating, and no cliffhanger! This book is the fourth book in the Elemental's MC series.
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If you enjoyed I Am Legend by Richard Matheson, you'll love Paradise Girl!
A highly infectious and incurable virus spreads worldwide. Seventeen-year-old Kerryl Shaw and her family live on a remote farm and think they will be safe, but the plague advances. Despite deaths around them, the Shaws survive. However, this changes when a stranger arrives, and it soon becomes apparent he has brought the infection to their door. One by one the family succumbs, leaving Kerryl alone.
Kerryl is sure it’s only a matter of time before she, too, dies. She decides to record what she thinks will be her final days in a diary. She realises that it will never be read, so she imagines a reader and calls him Adam. As loneliness and isolation affect the balance of her mind, Adam ceases to be an imaginary character and becomes real to her.
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If you enjoyed The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, you'll love Trading Darkness!
Once upon a time, a demon from the depths of the earth decided to seek the light of love.
When human weakness destroys that love, a yearning for vengeance awakens within the ancient soul, and the fiefdom of Wildenburg becomes home to many kinds of men and monsters. A never-ending spiral of cruelty and sacrifice is set in motion. Over the centuries, wars, hunger, and witch trials cripple the little fiefdom, until one day, the reigning lord discovers that not even his own children are safe from the fiend his ancestors helped create.
There is truth at the heart of every fairytale, but a fairytale can quickly turn into a nightmare.
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