Category Archives: Banned Books

Banned and challenged books.

Sept Book 3 – Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury
September 1, 2011

Welcome to Banned Books Month! The votes are counted and this month we are attempting [...]

Sept Book 2 – Jean Rhys – The Wide Sargasso Sea
September 1, 2011

Welcome to Banned Books Month! The votes are counted and this month we are attempting [...]

Sept Book 1 – Vladimir Nabokov – Lolita
September 1, 2011

Welcome to Banned Books Month! The votes are counted and this month we are attempting [...]

GBH Book Group September *Banned Books Month* – voting
August 1, 2011

The suggestions are in, the poll is open for voting, and you have seven whole [...]

Audio Book of the Month – September 2010

Banned Classic Read this for book group this month since we were supporting Banned Books [...]

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Kurt Vonnegut Jr – Slaughterhouse 5 (book group Sept 2010)
September 1, 2010

This month’s book group selection is Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, chosen mainly to [...]

School ban on gay anthology challenged by US free speech organisations
May 11, 2010

New Jersey school's decision to remove critically acclaimed [...]

Masturbation: literature’s last taboo
April 21, 2010

Granta's new issue dedicated to sex reminds us [...]

Stephenie Meyer joins ranks of ‘most challenged’ authors
April 15, 2010

The Twilight books are among the books that [...]

‘You are free to write, others have not been so lucky’
April 9, 2010

For 50 years PEN's Writers in Prison Committee [...]

Are we done with censorship yet?
September 22, 2008

With Banned Books week fast approaching I have already read enough about people who continually [...]

If you ban it, they will read!
September 10, 2008

“It’s not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books [...]