7 of the Wildest Reasons Books Have Been Banned

Good, important books get banned all the time. It’s dumb, sure, but unfortunately it’s nothing new. For instance, you probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn that  The Catcher in the Rye  has been banned for being “obscene,” that  Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret  has been banned for talking about periods, and that  The Diary of Anne Frank  has been banned for being sexually explicit. School boards have even censored  Fahrenheit 451, a book that deals with the dangers of censorship, proving once and for all that irony can be lost on anyone.

But there are books you expect to be banned, and then there are books whose banned status might surprise you.