I am a straight, 58-year-old white male, living in the US, looking to read a banned book. I generally only read science fiction, but am open to anything.
Try the Iranian collection *Documents from the Espionage Den* of materials seized from the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, and in particular the volume about US-Israeli collaboration in manipulating Iranian internal affairs under the Shah. I’m not sure what its present status is, but for a very long time, if you tried to bring it into the US, you could expect to have it confiscated and get interrogated by the US Secret Service.
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What books are banned?
Try the Iranian collection *Documents from the Espionage Den* of materials seized from the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, and in particular the volume about US-Israeli collaboration in manipulating Iranian internal affairs under the Shah. I’m not sure what its present status is, but for a very long time, if you tried to bring it into the US, you could expect to have it confiscated and get interrogated by the US Secret Service.
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202301220039
*The Left Hand of Darkness* by Le Guin
Maus by Art Spiegelman
Beloved by Toni Morrison
All of them.
Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
The bluest eye toni morrison
Flowers for Algernon is sort of Sci-fi and banned (and fucking heart wrenching).
A People ‘s History of the United States