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1. Our first "forbidden" text is now a standard work taught in many schools. It was once banned in California for portraying residents in an unflattering light, despite the author being a native Californian who set many of his novels and stories in the Golden State. What is this Dust Bowl classic?
2. Our next book was banned by the United States mail for obscenity in 1873. It is alleged to be the memoirs of a woman who must survive by her wits. The author is more famous for a novel that pretends to be the memoirs of a very famous castaway.
3. This novel was once banned in the UK, the USA, and Australia for obscenity. This work by an Irish author topped the Modern Library's list of the Best Novels of the Twentieth Century. It is so famously difficult, I wonder how anyone found the "good parts"?
4. Rather than a book, I'm going to ask you for an author. Several of his works have been banned in many locales around the world. Due to the sexual cruelty throughout many of his works, his name has been used for a common sexual perversion. Who is this writer?
5. This novel is by a renowned British author of the early twentieth century. It was famously banned in the United States for obscenity.
6. This book was banned in many places in the Southern United States before the Civil War. Abraham Lincoln is quoted as saying to the author of this novel, "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
7. I find it shocking that this book was banned at all. I see it as a testament to the human spirit and not particularly political. Lebanon once banned it for "portraying Jews, Israel, or Zionism favorably."
8. This Russian novel was banned within the Soviet Union from its publication in 1957 until the USSR was in the process of dissolution in 1988. It was made into a popular film starring Julie Christie and Omar Sharif.
9. This popular allegorical novel was written by an English writer in the midst of World War II. Sharply critical of the Soviet Union, it was declined by publishers because of the risk of causing a rift between the Allied forces. It was published in 1945.
10. In recent times, I believe that only one novel was not only banned, but a government called for the author's execution. He was forced to go into hiding.
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