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- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - a book famously banned in a large number of U.S. schools.
- All I Need Is Love - aging actor talks about his love life
- American Psycho - a fictional narrative of a stock broker who lives a double life as a serial killer.
- The Anarchist Cookbook- an informational guide on how to make bombs, explosives,
drugs, and other dangerous activities
- And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson - A children's book about the true story of Roy and Silo, a same-sex Chinstrap penguin couple who hatched an egg of a mixed sex couple and raised a female penguin named Tango. The most challenged book of 2006.
- Animal Farm by George Orwell - satirized the Soviet Union, comparing it to a farm
- Annie on my Mind - a fictional tale about two women who meet and fall in love
- Apocalypse Culture II - probes social taboos
- The Bias Against Guns - states that widespread gun ownership prevents crime and is a net social good
- Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow - states that, with current policies, Canada will be primarily French-speaking in the near future
- The Black Book of Communism - catalogs human rights violations by some Communist states.
- The Calcutta Quran Petition - discusses Hindu/Muslim tensions in India, including several accounts of banning; incidentally, it was itself subject to attempts to ban it
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger - narrates a young man's journey after expulsion from school, with frequent profanity and mention of sex.
- The Camp of the Saints - predicts uprising of (and revolution by?) minorities in France and then the world.
- Chariots of the Gods - suggests that extraterrestrials have visited Earth and were worshiped as gods.
- A Child Called It - autobiographical account of child abuse
- The Cider House Rules - for support of the pro-choice abortion movement
- Clandestine in Chile:The Adventures of Miguel Littin - discusses an exile secretly visits Chile during Pinochet
- A Clockwork Orange -fictional account of a world ravaged by gangs; containing vivid account of sex and violence
- Collapse - deals with societal collapses involving an environmental component
- The Confessions of Nat Turner - historical novel
- The Conscience of a Conservative - known as a social commentary by Barry Goldwater
- Consciousness Explained - examines mind/brain relationship
- Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge - dreams of grand unification of sciences and humanities
- The Culture of Critique series - portrays Jewish group behavior/culture as a competitive strategy
- The Da Vinci Code - fictional account wherein characters expose hidden truths the Catholic Church has concealed for centuries, including Christ's divinity, his celibacy and thus the possibility of a genetic heritage. (Jesus' descendants).
- Deadly Deceits (My 25 Years in the CIA) by Ralph McGehee - its publication was delayed for three years by the CIA itself despite much of the book's content already being public knowledge
- Dictionnaire philosophique - Voltaire is critical of society, religion - in alphabetical order
- Dude, Where's My Country? - Michael Moore deals with corporate and political events in the U.S.
- The Emperor's New Mind - subtitled Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics
- The Enemy Within - subtitled Saving America from the Liberal Assault on our Schools, Faith and Military
- Fascinating Womanhood - Helen Andelin - argues that a woman's fulfillment is through serving husband and children and eschewing the workforce
- The Female Eunuch - states that men hate women, causing women's self-hatred and repression
- The Feminine Mystique - states that some women can find fulfillment in non-traditional roles
- Fight Club - throws into light some darker philosophy
- Finnegans Wake - this is in the style of Ulysses, but much more obscure.
- The First Stone - deals with a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, Melbourne
- Flowers For Algernon - depicts the intellectual enhancement, and decline, of a mentally disabled janitor
- Flowers in the Attic - V. C. Andrews discusses a sexual relationship that develops between an adolescent brother and sister
- Forever by Judy Blume - banned in several states for openly discussing adolescent sexuality
- From Time Immemorial - argues that many of the refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war were not native Palestinians
- The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins, the British biologist argues that belief in an omnipotent Deity is a delusion, commonly held despite contrary evidence, which has a nett negative impact on society. See also The Dawkins Delusion? - a critique of the former, by christian biochemist Alister McGrath
- God's Politics - why the right are wrong and the left just do not get it
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck - was often criticized for its vulgar language and cited as socialist propaganda.
- The Green Book - Muammar al-Gaddafi's views on democracy and his political philosophy
- The Harry Potter books - depictions of witchcraft and the supernatural seen as anti-Christian
- Heather Has Two Mommies - about a daughter of a lesbian couple. Seen as pro homosexual by most.
- Hitler's War - David Irving's biography describing the war from Hitler's perspective
- Hogg - a pornographic novel endorsed by Norman Mailer
- The Hollow Hope - subtitled Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (examines judicial activism)
- The Holocaust Industry - subtitled Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
- Homesteading the Noosphere - anthropological examination of Open Source software management
- How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - says that Africa was held down and used by European colonial regimes.
- In Defense of Internment - subtitled The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror
- Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces
- Jewish History, Jewish Religion - states that Jewish history as told by Israel is ethnocentric
- Like Water for Chocolate - frustrated lovers consummate their love late in life in magical Mexico
- Live from Death Row - memoirs of a cop-killer, reviews long history of blacks in America
- The Lives of John Lennon - critical of Lennon
- Le Livre noir du Canada Anglais - purports injustices in Canada against the Quebecois, Jewish and aboriginal peoples.
- Lolita - deals explicitly with pedophilia
- The Mad Man - a "pornotopic fantasy" (novel)
- The Malay Dilemma - promotes autonomy for the indigenous people of Malaysia
- Mandingo - a novel about violence towards black slaves in antebellum South
- Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man - rebuts the arguments set forth in Michael Moore's books
- Might is Right - discusses Social Darwinism in a way that could be construed as a blunt affirmation of it.
- Josephine Mutzenbacher - 1906 Pornographic novel that graphically depicts the sexual activities of a Viennese girl from ages 5-12.
- The Myth of Islamic Tolerance - subtitled How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims
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- Nickel and Dimed - subtitled On (Not) Getting By in America - Examines "working poor" in post welfare-reform USA
- None Dare Call It Treason - states that there is a communist infiltration in American society, politics and culture
- Of Mice and Men- allegedly promotes euthanasia and anti-business, contains racial slurs
- On the Justice of Roosting Chickens - portrays 9/11 as revenge for Western meddling in Mid-East in 20th century
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - divides primitive human mind to expressive and obedient parts
- The Origin of Species - revolutionary work which contradicted existing religious beliefs
- The Painted Bird - involves incest, etc.
- Paulicéia Desvairada - poetry that sometimes condemns Brazilian society
- The Plot Against America - alternate history novel where Charles Lindbergh is elected U.S. President in 1940
- A Prison Diary - diary of a former MP and British prisoner in various jails
- The Rage and The Pride - post-9/11 condemnation of Islam as a totalitarian force bent on destroying Western civilisation
- The Real Anita Hill - purports to revealed the real motives of Anita Hill. Later repudiated by its author.
- The Real Lincoln - severely critical view of Lincoln presidency.
- Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower - recommended in a speech by Osama bin Laden in January 2006
- Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations
- Samizdat - subtitled And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code
- The Satanic Bible by Anton La Vey
- The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie - considered blasphemous by many Muslims.
- The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister
- Sex - book of explicit sexual fantasies by the famous pop singer Madonna
- Show Boat - Broadway musical with stereotypical portrayal of blacks as socially inferior
- Siege - embraces Charles Manson as a leader for today.
- Starship Troopers - a science fiction novel depicting a lot of warfare. Also considered by many to advocate militaristic anti-democracy, or fascism.
- The Story of Ferdinand - children's book with pacifist themes
- Testimony - supposed the memoirs of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, purporting that he could be, a times, quite rude
- The Truth About Hillary - delves into the sexuality and political ambitions of Hillary Clinton.
- The Turner Diaries - details a fictional white supremacist takeover of the world
- The Two Babylons - states that catholicism is simply renamed paganism and that the Roman Catholic Church is the whore of babylon portrayed in Revelations 17-18
- Unsafe at Any Speed - says that car manufacturers resisted implementing safety features
- Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation - pre-Darwin attacks on creationism
- Will They Ever Trust Us Again? - questions military sense of loyalty after invasion of Iraq
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[edit] References
- ^ "Klein nailed on falsehoods in Al Franken Show grilling". Mediamatters. Retrieved on November 29, 2005. (With audio interview with Klein on the lies in his book The Truth About Hillary)
