Books Educate not Indoctrinate
- Kim, The Madhatter Bookshop, Burford
- Aug 15
- 2 min read
After the multi-vehicular procession that was JD Vance and his security made their way up Burford High Street yesterday I am lead to considering a new shelf in the Madhatter Bookshop entitled BANNED BOOKS! These are the titles that are considered unfit by organised and well funded groups in the USA who base their decisions on specified idealogies. These groups, like 'Moms For Liberty' actively and successfully seek to remove books they find distasteful and objectionable from school and library shelves.
Over 16000 titles are currently banned in many states, a number not seen since the Red Scare McCarthy era of the 1950s. Most of these are predominantly targets books about race and racism or individuals of color and also books on LGBTQ+ topics as well those for older readers that have sexual references or discuss sexual violence.
There is currently no legal penalty for owning a book on the so called banned list but we can only cross and fingers and hope that this does not become the case as we watch with astonishment the Trumpian administration tighten their grip on the neck of the land of the free.
Banned titles include.......
To Kill A Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Bluest Eye By Toni Morrison
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas
Twilight by Stephanie Myer
The Odyssey by Homer
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Piccoult
Blubber by Judy Blume
Lord of The Flies by William Golding
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Great Gatsby by F Scott-Fitzgerald
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Please support your local independent bookshop because we are beacons in the literary darkness, whilst each shop is hand curated we never restrict your access to knowledge, to pleasure or to your path of growth and enlightenment.
BANNED BOOKS SHELF COMING SOON AT THE MADHATTER BOOKSHOP!
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