Teens murdering each other, the government cutting people’s tongues off, a little kissing here and there — just a couple of themes that probably made the Hunger Games trilogy the third most-challenged books in the U.S.
More than a century ago, Mark Twain’s short story Eve’s Diary was banned from a Massachusetts library due to nude illustrations of biblical Eve. But nowadays, with books like Twilight and Crank being constantly challenged for censorship, the artistic representations of Eve don’t seem so tasteless after all.
A Virginia school district has banned a book on the legendary sleuther for how it portrays the Mormon faith.
Even after death, Kurt Vonnegut is circumventing the rules.
If you’re a criminal who likes to read — and/or religious, but not Christian — then the last place you want to be jailed in is Moncks Corner, South Carolina.
