I'm not sure if there's one giant conglomerate of a list, or if they're different from different places, but I was inspired to read each and every one of them that I could.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_books

It's weird how I've read a good number of these already. How could you ban Civil Disobedience?

I'm a big fan of the idea of reading banned books, especially nonfiction ones. The fact that they're banned means that someone didn't want people to know something, and that something is probably worth knowing.

Wow, didn't know Fahrenheit 451 was banned in parts of the US. That's my favorite book.

Why is that shitty book even banned? Not to knock on your tastes DJ, but that book left a horrible taste in my mouth.

Man, Farenheit 451 is beloved. In my high school, that and Gatsby were the only ones that got kids to actually read the book instead of the sparknotes.

The movies were good too.

I don't think most of those are banned, like "A Child Called It", they have that at the middle school library even.

Yeah, it's Wiki so my want to trust it is very very very very low.

Yeah but it was released in 1995 and it is now 2007. Things change.

Oh, I don't take offense to that at all. I know several people who absolutely hate the book.

I don't know quite why I like it do much, I just do. I read it all the time. I didn't have to read it for school. My aunt found it in the lost and found box at her work and gave it to me when I was 13 or so. I just love the way it was written, the characters, the idea...

I know that Catcher in the Rye was banned for quite some time in schools. Hell, it was full of alcohol, cursing, and sexual references.

Same here. I was pissed when my English class watched the Gatsby movie instead of reading it. The books that everyone liked at my school were To Kill A Mockingbird and Of Mice And Men. About half of each class liked Raisin In The Sun, too, while the other half hated it.

For a while, I wanted to read every book in the Wiki list, but then I realized that I'm just not interested in some of them, like some of the religious texts, the holocaust-didn't-happen texts, etc. I also realized some of them were never translated to English in the first place. The majority of them, though, I either want to read now or wanted to read even before I knew they were banned.

I can't believe The Lorax is on there, that's my favorite children's book.

I have found while looking for these that my public library not only doesn't carry some of them, but in some cases like that of Steal This Book and Lolita, the computer doesn't even acknowledge that the books exist. (Although they do have two biographies on Abbie Hoffman when you search for Steal This Book.) This makes me wonder how many are still banned in the US, as we have a national top-100 public library here.

90% of them suck, since they were banned for religious beliefs, political activism, or...denying the holocaust?

Well like, the United States as a nation doesn't really ban books, because of the first amendment. That list is just books that have been banned frequently/regularly/often or however you want to put it, by different organizations. Like a lot of school districts have in the past/still do ban books from their libraries and from use in curriculums for various reasons (my favorite being "The UCSD page notes that at least one Anne Frank complaint, filed in Alabama in 1983, wanted the book out of schools because it is "a real downer." Well, best not to read it then.").