Litsy

Banned Books: The World's Most Controversial Books, Past and Present | DORLING KINDERSLEY LTD.

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Covers ripped away––
voices silenced on the shelf.
Fear fears the turned page.
#Freadom

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JenlovesJT47 🩵💙🩵💙🩵🤓📚📚📚 12h

lil1inblue Wow! So powerful. ✊🏻🤩✊🏻 11h

Itchyfeetreader This is highly impactful 11h

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CBee Love this ♥️ 10h

AnnCrystal Oh wow, that gave me shivers! “Fear Fears The Turned Page“ BRILLIANT 👏🏼🐝👍🏼✊🏼📚🐝💝. 10h

AnnCrystal Just researched #Freadom, how absolutely intriguing ✊🏼🐻📚💝. 10h

Eggs 🖤🖤🐝🐝💛💛 7h

Jari-chan So, so good 📚🖤🐝💛 6h

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nitalibrarian

Banned Books | Marcia Amidon Lusted

New sticker.

Texreader Good one!! 1w

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dabbe

Banned Books | DK

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A couple of days late! 😍

Read4life 💙🦋💙 2w

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dabbe

Banned Books | DK

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A visually informative exploration of literary censorship across history. It covers a wide range of works, from ancient texts like THE ART OF LOVE by Ovid to modern controversies such as THE HATE U GIVE by Angie Thomas. This breadth ensures that readers gain perspective on how censorship has evolved over centuries. Due to its broad approach, the book often provides only brief summaries of each text‘s controversy rather than in-depth analysis.

lil1inblue This could be of interest to the #withthebanned crew! @jadams89 3w

dabbe @lil1inblue Thanks for passing it on! 💙🩵💙 3w

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Readerann

The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa

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I found this entertaining, but also unsettling as more and more book banning occurs around me. I‘m not sure how I feel about the ending.

sarahbarnes I wasn‘t sure about the ending either. 3w

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AmyG

Banned Books | DK

ChaoticMissAdventures I love him so much. 1mo

Chrissyreadit ❤️ 1mo

Prairiegirl_reading 🎯 1mo

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MemoirsForMe 😍🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 1mo

dabbe 🎯🩵🎯 1mo

AnnCrystal ✊🏼😎📚💝📚. 1mo

DogMomIrene Truth! 1mo

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

No Excuses Reading Journal for Banned Books | Tracy Tennant

Link to list:

https://media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/2003683009/-1/-1/0/250404-LIST%20OF%20REMO...

Link to website above where the link is at:

https://www.navy.mil/Press-Office/Press-Releases/display-pressreleases/Article/4...

#Censorship + #BannedBooks = #FutureReadingGoals

Susanita 19 pages! 🤬 1mo

ManyWordsLater I‘m having difficulty articulating to friends the difference because library curation and banning books. 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa Well if you curate out anything to do with racism, gender, feminism, or transgender…you maybe are not curating a collection on a specific topic but removing a complete topic. For instance….race books out, Mein Kampf in…you could say more war history related…. But also out as feminism books about the underground movement of women in Afghanistan….which was probably pretty important in a fairly recent war. So I think it‘s the how, why, & ⤵️

The Underground Girls of Kabul: In Search of a Hidden Resistance in Afghanistan

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ↪️ purpose. I am not a librarian, I should add. But I would think curating a collection is different from say removing from a library. My public library has the library, and a separate curated section on local history….but that does not mean they removed every book from the main library on any other subject. 1mo

shortsarahrose @ManyWordsLater - I‘ll add, as a library worker/person with a masters in library science, collection development has more to do with building a collection that reflects a wide range of viewpoints on any given topic - even those that we may not personally agree with or that the majority of our community may not agree with. Censorship is removing or refusing to purchase items that don‘t align with a certain view. 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa And why on earth Maya Angelou needed to be cut, only makes sense if it‘s a military curated collection…. But I did not see any other books of American classics novels of that sort listed. Just hers. And I find it hard to believe there was only 1 classic literature book in the library. No Steinbeck for example.

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa @shortsarahrose Thank you! I knew we needed a librarian! When in doubt, always ask a librarian. 1mo

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Susanita right! I had heard about it when it happened, but today was the first time I had seen a complete list. Very interesting what topics the removed books seemed to be centered around. And so nice they included the topics for each books, and I‘m assuming the rational for pulling them. 1mo

ncsufoxes It‘s an odd collection of books, meaning it‘s kind of all over the place. A few repeated titles (some have different publication dates but some are repeated 2-3xs). There are only a few fiction books. I‘m surprised The 1619 Project wasn‘t on there. It is interesting to see what they find intimidating. My guess is whoever curated this list probably hasn‘t read one of these books. They probably used AI to generate the list. 1mo

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Leftcoastzen

Read These Banned Books: A Journal and 52-Week Reading Challenge from the American Library Association | American Library Association (ALA)

A pop up shop inside Changing Hands Tempe , Az. I heard the conversations of teachers & staff talking of all the controversies & challenges. Hey , I know that most Littens are profoundly aware of all of this , I was happy to see customers who are discovering for the first time the extent of this BS !

Hooked_on_books That‘s great visibility! Good for them for bringing attention to this. 2mo

BarbaraBB What a great initiative. 2mo

TieDyeDude 😍 2mo

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Tamra

Banned Books | DK

I was tempted, except nobody but me would see them under my pant legs. 😜

AmyG 😂love them! 3mo

BethM Omg I totally would have bought them. 3mo

dabbe 🤩🤣🤩 3mo

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LeahBergen 😆😆 3mo

Julsmarshall But you would know they were there :) 3mo

Leftcoastzen 👏👏👏😂 3mo

Prairiegirl_reading I have similar socks and I purposely wear them to work when I‘m pissed off. No one else can see them but I know they are there and it‘s so petty that it makes me happy. 😊 3mo

Jeg I love socks like that but same problem no one sees them. 🤷🏻‍♂️. 3mo

Cathythoughts Short pants are the answer 😁😘 3mo

sarahbarnes Oh man I want those. 😍 3mo

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kwmg40

The Book Censor's Library | Bothayna Al-Essa

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A humorous, clever and satirical story about book censorship. I enjoyed all the references to Orwell's 1984 and other banned books.

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#gottacatchemall (Raticate: betrayal) @PuddleJumper

BarbaraBB Glad you enjoyed it too 3mo

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