Book Blogger Hop: In Regards to Banned Books Week...

Question:

In regards of Banned Books Week, what are your favourite books that has been banned or challenged?

My Answer:

I honestly wasn't aware of whether I'd read a banned book. 

From what I understand, the only prohibition with regards to books in the UK is books on child pornography but this is part of a general ban on child pornography so it makes sense... I guess individual establishments within the UK, schools and the like, may have different rules on what books they'll make available and promote but they're not legally enforceable like in some other countries.

In order to correct my general ignorance on the topic, I did some quick googling and what I found was that the following books, which I own and/or have read, were banned, at some point or another, somewhere in the world:

Catch-22, Joseph Heller

The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger

Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon

Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

The House of Night series, P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast 

The Twilight Series, Stephanie Meyer

All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque

The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank

Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

The Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling

The DaVinci Code, Dan Brown

The Witches, Roald Dahl

To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

I'm genuinely mystified as to the logic of banning these books but profoundly glad that I don't have to put up with it.