I myself have read some of the known banned books. Most of them were banned during their heydays and are now accepted and circulating.

After picture books about same-sex families are pulled from city’s schools, 267 writers ask for their work to be taken off shelves.

The text of the letter and the names of all signatories can be found here: http://www.traparentesi.eu/

An erudite, self-aware feminist memoir, in graphic novel form, examining a lesbian’s childhood relationship with her parents – especially her closeted gay father. Fun Home is chock full of psychoanalysis, literary criticism and commentary on gender, sexuality and suicide. You may recognise the author’s name from her Bechdel Test, which ‘asks if a work of fiction features at least two women who talk to each other about something other than a man’ to indicate gender bias (Wikipedia).

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