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Upon its release, Fahrenheit 451 was a critical success, albeit with notable dissenters; the novel's subject matter led to its censorship in apartheid South Africa and various schools in the United States. In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal.
All books in the series have been faced with bans, and the American Library Association reported them as being among the most challenged books in 2013 and 2014. The books were most commonly banned due to assertions that the main characters are disrespectful to authority and that the humor is inappropriate.
Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
Censored due to inciting secession. Taken out of libraries because of the Hong Kong national security law. [110] The Chongzhen Emperor: Diligent Ruler of a Failed Dynasty (2023) Chen Wutong History Censored due to popular comparisons between the final emperor of the Ming dynasty, the Chongzhen Emperor, and Xi Jinping. [111] [112]
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has been banned by several European governments. [1] [2] [3] This is an index of lists of banned books, which contain books that have been banned or censored by religious authority or government.
On the panel discussion with Smith was Cameron Samuels, a student from the Katy Independent School District, in Texas, which has been a frequent hotbed of library censorship for the past few years.
It peaked during wartime in 1919, when Georgia mocked Georgia Tech fielding a team in 1917 and 1918 when many schools did not due to World War I. Georgia Tech was a military training ground.
In Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel Fahrenheit 451, about a culture which has outlawed books due to its disdain for learning, books are burned along with the houses they are hidden in. [3] [98] In the 1984 film Footloose book burning is a theme that in 2023 was linked to the Banned Books Week. [101]