Number one is the Bible. Banned in China under penalty of concentration camp or death and in the USA public schools system. Strange how pedo and trans books are allowed in public schools.
I had to read all those before high school. Parents made me read out loud, time for time if I wanted to watch tv as a child. Hated it growing up, but I know where my love of reading came from. 😊
It was banned in a English county recently. Given the rise of socialism, and government's authoritarian and totalitarian behavior, I was expecting a novel warning of a coming regime to be banned in the United States, especially after the innocuous Dr. Seuss.
“ I tore out his tongue not because I fear what he might say, but because he called my daughter a whore for not going out with him.”- Some drug lord who doesn’t give a crap about freedom of speech because he knows truly having a voice is not something you are born with but rather something you need to earn in life.
But it never happened. Life is better statistically than it’s ever been. Life expectancy is high and unemployment is low. I’m kinda poor and I still live like a king in comparison to 100 years ago. The dystopian future never manifested. Everyone always says “oh just wait till next year”. Maybe other parts of the world are dystopian hells scapes but not where I live in rural Wisconsin. Most people are just fine.
@DaxianPreston statistically, yes. That's not the point of 1984 though. The book demonstrates the loss of privacy and free thinking, being suppressed by the government. Some people argue we've lost our privacy to big tech companies, some people argue against it. It's undeniable that today, the top of the world (governments and companies alike) know a million times more about your everyday life and everything you do, compared to a century ago. Some other countries are literally living in similar conditions, like North Korea and debatably China. Is the world exactly like 1984? Maybe not. But people like to point out the similarities to a world that's supposed to be dystopian.
It's up there with dictator marcos banning a an anime tv show in the Philippines called "Voltes V" that was a show about a rebellion against a corrupt and evil emperor, reason being was that marcos feared that it might inspire the filipinos and cause an uprising against his dictatorship lmao
@@scottdarock8065 _"Always one of ya in the comments"_ People that recognise what an absolute joke Buzfeed is? I'd hope there would be many more than one.
Nah they say "Banned". But they never said banned by WHOM. WHO BANNED THEM? cuz i can easily go online and buy one right now. If i can easiky purchase it is it even banned to begin with?
@@samuelbeatsminecraft2049please tell me your not this ignorant. America is not the only country in the world….. places like china and Russia want these books banned
@@Trennie18 Mein kampf, translated as "My Struggle" was a book written by Adolf Hitler that detailed his plans for the future of the Nazi party and his political ideologies.
We Had a teacher who made us read it, and we had a "contest" who could make the best big brother poster. The end result was a room and hallway with big brother is watching you posters.
In the '90s I worked at a Waldenbooks and a public library at the same time. Waldenbooks wouldn't sell the cookbook, but the public library got it for free from a university nearby
It's not a book of fiction, though some of the drug recipes are bs. It's a manual on how to make explosives and drugs. Maybe if you want Timmy to blow his hands off in the back yard, then yeah make it available in the kids section of the library. I know all those books that describe how to make atomic bombs and mortars and missiles are flying off the shelves....
Glad they banned To Kill a Mockingbird. I suffered through that god awful book in 7th grade and hated every second of reading it. The first half was slower than a 1-legged dog on tranquilizers.
"Exemplary example"?! "Example of parody for social commentary" lol come on. Keep it simple - Animal Farm is a great example of using metaphor for social commentary
I agree with your sentiment. It's one of my favorites. After reading the other two replies you got, I looked up, "is Animal Farm a parody" and sure enough, it is considered as such, so they are mistaken (oh, no). And now, you have learned the correct spelling of "parody". My favorite banned book is "To Kill a Mockingbird," definitely not a parody.
Glad they banned To Kill a Mockingbird. I suffered through that god awful book in 7th grade and hated every second of reading it. The first half was slower than a 1-legged dog on tranquilizers.
Throwback to middle school parents complaining about books while my peers were showing me beheading videos in class. Adults never know what the fuck is going on bro.
@@dustinlarkin8582 regardless of the device used, his point still remains. My parents were worried about satanic messages in Pokemon and magic the gathering. I was watching gangbang on unsecured internet connections
@tammaraorbach1448 Utah and I think it was Florida and maybe Kentucky have been trying to restrict and control what books are in public libraries. I'd have to find the article again.
It say of all time. They're not banned anymore but were banned in the past. It's pretty common knowledge that 1984 was both banned in the US as well as China at the same time.
Hes wrong because the most banned books are the bible and the other abrahamic books followed by things like the seasons of sodom and anarchist cookbook
All 10 of those books were required for me to graduate from high school. They are some of the greatest American literary works. I is insane. They should still be required reading.
Not when I was in school. I was never required to read a single one of them. Actually, there was no such thing as a "reading list" when I was in high school. We spent a lot of time in 9th grade English going through "Scarlet Letter" by Hawthorne. Another year, we spent a similar amount of time going through "Macbeth" by Shakespeare. We spent a lot of time on the classics.
Well, as a homeschooling mama, I think you just created our book list this year 😅 I’ll save 1985, The Color Purple and Lord of the Flies until they’re a bit older and we already read Huckelberry Finn. But that’s a good list! I read most of those in high school.
Mein Kampf was actually a fascinating read. Banning fiction is one thing but to ban history, erase it, rewrite it and expect the world to turn a blind eye is even worse. Just because I found the Hitlers work interesting does forward me the assumption that I agree with it. Get your head out of your ass and get reading, and that includes all books from every perspective.
Why is it that whenever people here piece of information that they didn't know before they instantly start saying it's fake like bro just take in the information, if you don't agree with it then do your own research instead of making a unoriginal comment
@@natu01 I dont understand what do people consider a book? a book doesnt have to be a story, theres books on how to make nuclear weapons or Hitler war tactics
@@punishedgloyperstormtroope8098 1984 is banned in Belarus for a while now and To Kill a Mockingbird was only asked to be removed from classes in the US by a neighbourhood community
6th grade I had terrible grades , that summer my dad made me read half these books ,plus “on the road-jack Kerouac” we didn’t see eye to eye on most things in my life but I’ll forever be grateful that he gave me that love for reading .
This is beyond sad. All of those books were literally a requirement to graduate when I was in school. It’s like they don’t want George Orwell to get into these kids heads and give them any ideas.
Im surprised 1984 was up there, but not Animal Farm/Fahrenheit 451/The Giver. All these books about government corruption. Can't have the kids growing up to be distrusting of the government...
@zennmann6930 I for one would think that would be an interesting read. we should be reading it pointing out where he went wrong. we should be acknowledging that evil people almost never think their evil. we should document the process of how ambition and self righteousness without solid self reflection can lead to you doing horrible things, all while believing you are a savior. we should viscerally see how easy it is for humans to descend into depravity. we should NOT hide these ideas and pretend they don't exist. because when that ideology (or more importantly, the pitfalls that can warp an ideology) resurfaces in a different form. it will be new to us. as a result people won't have the wisdom to see through it. you cannot kill ideas. you can only expose them in the confidence that your ideas are are objectively better. show people both, so that they know. if you hide everything that's just a recipe for repition
No books should be banned. I enjoyed every single book on your list for different reasons. People, just read anything and everything you can get your hands on. You decide what you will and won’t read. No one else.
@@randomstuff4997 Nah the bible the Coran and the Torah and probably other religious texts would be amongst the most banned because before the spread of secular ideas the goverments used to use religion to legitimize their power. The comunist manifiest and other writings spreading political ideas (such as Mainkampf) are banned for the same reason.
Today banned books are banned because people don’t want their 6 year old kid seeing to men have anal sex and discuss same sex relations People also don’t want same 6 year old seeing sexual relationships between a man and a woman .
Which is why they where banned. Nosey parents who suck at parenting and think their kids will be possessed or do drugs for reading Harry Potter. Books don’t get to this list for being and or scandalous. They get in this list by being common AF so there are more chances more bad parents will come into contact with them and ban them.
We had to read most of those books when I was public school. They are major classics. I turned out a healthy multi culture accepting person. It’s important to read about struggles so we can understand our fellow mankind and spread acceptance and compassion
These, and many other classics, are still studied in Canadian high schools. Huckleberry Finn has been cancelled but the others are still on the roster.
It was pretty dark. I got about 2/3 of the way through it. It's not banned though. There are multiple copies up for sale on the big technocratic Amazon at this moment.
Lol the government isn’t banning 1984, it’s parents calling for it. The first amendment means the Fed can’t ban books. Keep in mind that all these “banned” books are banned in some schools because those parents and schools banned them. Not the government
Mein Kampf hasn't actually been banned much, it's still banned in Austria* and the Netherlands but has never been banned in the US. I wonder if part of it is that people don't really want to seem hypocritical since the Nazis burned books. But also it's kind of crucial to be able to read the type of thought somebody has that leads them to doing what Hitler did.
I don’t agree with antisemitism but I find it bananas that if you were to hold float the opinion that the holocaust didn’t happen you can be arrested in a ton countries/ Look that up
As a teacher I know my district teaches or has thought 7 of these. I personally this year taught "Of Mice and Men." The thing you have to remember about book bannings is usually just a regional thing, often down to individual towns. There is also a huge difference between banning a book and removing it from a curriculum.
@@jonlinin9682 Porn not available in elementary school . However "you" (over 18) are able to buy as much as you can afford . Not banned / restricted , get it ?
So I 've read seven of the ten banned books. Never imagined any of those books were banned. I would like more info on what country or countries that banned these books.
Idk if they are the top 10 but many of those books were banned from schools and I bet you couldn't guess why and what type of person wanted them banned
@@ellenlewis3133yeah being books teaching kids how to suck d#$&, don't need pornography in middle school, these banned books are not pornographic at the least
One time, a local library had their yearly "Banned Books" section, where they display books that were banned or challenged by parents that year, and one of the books was Winnie the Pooh. The reason: "Talking animals go against God"
I read all these books before graduating high school in 2010. ALL of these were, at one point or another, part of my curriculum. Crazy how times have changed.
This is why I will always buy a hard copy of books. 1.) They can’t change print w out evidence and 2.) I don’t need power to charge my book. I pick it up and open it to read.
It WAS when I was in school. Many of these were on reading lists, but that was back before the Marxists took over America. We were still free. There is a reason 1984 is the MOST banned. Its because it was TRUE.
And the majority of books that was on that list are some of the best books ever written❤ I'm surprised animal farm wasn't up there cuz that book fits right in with that list
That's kinda the reason why they are 'banned' books, the writers had creative freedom to write those books. Now with all the censorship laws, diversity projects and cash grabbing it's taken a lot of liberties away from talented writers to make good stories anymore. Some these book are even being rewritten to 'bitter suite a modern audience'.
They don't respect their pronouns. And they erase social culture AT THE TIME of writing. THIS IS OUR HISTORY. WE WILL NOT BE CHANGED BECAUSE OF 1/4 OF 1 ETHNIC GROUP WANTS TO ONLY HAVE WHAT HISTORY THEY CHOOSE
1984 is quite possibly the most terrifyingly book I've read simply due to how Orwell builds so much tension and empathy for his protagonist in the mind and heart of the reader and then....🤯
It's an awesome book. When I was in my 20s one of my favorite ways to spend a day off was to go to the park down by the river and sit in the grass and read _Huck Finn._ I still read it again every couple years. It totally does make you want to go on a long adventure.
This country (US) doesn’t want kids to feel s drive for adventure lmao is why kids don’t play outside, they’re on their phones. They don’t eat fresh made food, they eat fast food and easy prep pre made food. And they don’t let them read these books that open their minds to know ideas. I’d be genuinely surprised if middle schoolers today read All Quiet on the Western Front… they probably watched it on Netflix 🤓🤡 schools are a joke now
@@LordSaullth Necromicon literally doesn't exist. It is a fictional book as in it is a book that is mentionned in other books. It never existed in the real world. You cannot ban what is 't there.
I think this is interesting. Its a book that doesn't exist yet people are aware of what contains and warn to others stay away despite nobody saw one. Im not gonna say is top ten, but for sure is banned.
One of the hardest books for me to read in highschool due to the level of big words H.P Lovecraft used in his writings lol I thought I was great in English due to having A+ in no other subject and read many other difficult books but man this book left all of them in the dust as every sentence had at least 5 or more words I had to look up to understand wtf H.P was talking about and in the end ended up finishing it as a personal goal but saw the live adaptation of the necronomicon and it brought me back to re-read it again and that's when I fell in love with it and many other lovecraftian lore, books and history but I'll die before I torture myself again no matter how much I love the story of DAGON😂😂😂
I've bought 6 of them in the last year or so, and they have been awesome to revisit. I think a common theme among them is people banding together to fix what is wrong.
I was sent away in high school. The school I was in didn’t allow us to talk in pairs bc we could make “run (away) plans”. This is an interesting point and I think you are on to something…maybe why we are so divided now as an entire culture-we will never work together to fix it. Same thing gets implemented in prison-they want the racism so they can keep people distracted and under control-if they are fighting each other they won’t be fighting the shit system.
