<p>Heart of Darkness tops the list, no?</p>
<p>Harry Potter of course. ;-)</p>
<p>yeah, Heart of Darkness is defintely up there. I loved reading Achebe's criticisms.</p>
<p>Some more books to add to the list...The Davinci Code and A Little Million Pieces.</p>
<p>lady chatterly's lover</p>
<p>'The Satanic Verses'- Salman Rushdie'
I don't think that anyone wanted to cut Joseph Conrad's head for writing 'Heart of Darkness'</p>
<p>Fahrenheit 451
And my beloved Harry Potter :D</p>
<p>The weird part is that I've read many of those books, and I didn't find anything with them.</p>
<p>Exactly. What might seem harmless fiction to some is, in actuality, a gore-ridden tome of immoral and depraved conduct.</p>
<p>the bible</p>
<p>For modern day books the fist one that popped into my head was Harry Potter. I remember reading about some place actually doing the old book burning with HP being one of the burnees. Scary. My daughter started tutoring for the literacy council back in 10th grade and would try and find books that would spark the interest of the kids she was tutoring. She got chewed out by one mom because she was going to have the boy read Goosebumps books. Pretty rubbishy books but appealing to boys of a certain age (they got my son reading) and I had never considered them 'controversial' till that day.</p>
<p>The Qur'an.</p>
<p>Also, the Torah or Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy). I would have cited the Bible generally, but the controversy surrounding the Bible seems to be almost always limited to the writings of the Torah/Pentateuch. They are the perennial hot potatoes. When Atheists bash the Bible, they are usually bashing the five books of Moses.</p>
<p>One caveat: the book of Revelation (the Apocalypse of St. John the Divine). No book of the Christian Scriptures has been at the centre of so much false doctrine and division within Christendom as Revelation has. I daresay that had it not been included into the canon -- it almost wasn't, but St. Augustine of Hippo insisted upon it -- fundamentalist Protestantism as we know it would not exist today. There would certainly be no Jehovah's Witnesses, Seventh-Day Adventists, or other like-minded "Rapture"-obsessed sects that knock on your door. All of that comes from misguided/uneducated interpretations of Revelation.</p>
<p>Heart of Darkness should be banned for being really, really bad.</p>
<p>Whenever I mention the book to my English teacher, she falls into a gagging jag. Usually she can appreciate just about any book, but Conrad? No.</p>
<p>What's wrong with the heart of darkness. I've never read it, but my mom recently purchased it.</p>
<p>I would say The Da Vinci Code was controversal</p>
<p>That O.J. Simpson 'confession' book - does it count if it was cancelled?</p>
<p>Bible, Da Vinci Code, OJ's book, A million little pieces.</p>
<p>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn</p>
<p>I don't think it's controversial at all, but I had to do a report on its controversy.</p>
<p>The Prince</p>