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The Frequently Banned Books Everyone Should Read

"As Oscar Wilde once said in The Picture of Dorian Gray: "The books the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame." If one of these titles—or any book that shows up frequently on banned, challenged, or other lists warning people away from them for whatever reason—makes us, as readers, feel uncomfortable or complicit or guilty? Maybe we should ask ourselves why.
Here are just a few of the most frequently banned books we think everyone should read."
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Maus (Art Spiegelman)
Maus
1
Art Spiegelman
The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood)
The Handmaid's Tale
2
Margaret Atwood
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird
3
Harper Lee
The Hate U Give (Angie Thomas)
The Hate U Give
4
Angie Thomas
Beloved (Toni Morrison)
Beloved
5
Toni Morrison
Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
Thirteen Reasons Why
6
Jay Asher
The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
The Kite Runner
7
Khaled Hosseini
Looking for Alaska (John Green)
Looking for Alaska
8
John Green
The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
The Glass Castle
9
Jeannette Walls
All Boys Aren't Blue (George M. Johnson)
All Boys Aren't Blue
10
George M. Johnson
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