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1. 1984

Book cover for "1984"
Star rating for 1984
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Notes:
TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
Description:
Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities. Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."...
Book cover for "Ender's game"
Star rating for Ender's game
Series:
Ender Wiggin volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Notes:
TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
Description:
Child hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
Book cover for "The glass castle"
Star rating for The glass castle
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2012
Description:
The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities. In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and...
Book cover for "The handmaid's tale"
Star rating for The handmaid's tale
Series:
Handmaid's tale volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019
Description:
"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow.
Book cover for "To kill a mockingbird"
Star rating for To kill a mockingbird
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Series:
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Notes:
TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2020, 2017, 2011, 2009
Description:
"Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee exploreswith rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice--but the weight of history will only tolerate so much."--Provided by publisher.