Below is a list of books that were challenged in the courtroom…


Madame Bovary: The scandalous scenes

Why Gustave Flaubert was put on trial for Madame Bovary?

BOOK: MADAME BOVARY


The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging bits on education

Controversial advice from the schoolchildren’s book on education

BOOK: THE LITTLE RED SCHOOLBOOK


Mafarka: Summary & analysis plus all the controversial passages

Read the obscene parts of the first two chapters that sent the Italian author to court

BOOK: MAFARKA THE FUTURIST


Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages

Why was the 1950s French novel banned? It begins with O’s lover sexually training her: She is stripped, whipped and “gangbanged”

BOOK: STORY OF O