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How the first amendment helps fight banned books and ensure our freedom to read freely.

Every year the American Library Association receives requests for literary works to be banned, since 1982 libraries and groups have protested by celebrating these books.

The ten most challenged books of the 21st century as of 2005, to finalize banned books week.

With the best of intentions, people frequently challenge and ban books. In 2007, over 420 books were challenged or banned from schools and libraries.

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Since 1982, Banned Books Week has been celebrated in the United States during the last week in September. It reminds Americans of the freedom of speech and of the press.

Libraries, schools and bookstores celebrate this annual attempt to emphasize the importance of literary freedom and the opposition of all forms of literary censorship.

You may think that banning books was something that happened in Victorian times, but banning books still happens -- and mystery novels are not exempt.

Have you ever read any books in the Harry Potter or Gossip Girl series? If you have, then you have read one of the top banned or challenged books of the 21st century.

Out of the Top 100 books of the 20th Century as listed by the Radcliff Publishing Course, 42 are or have been on the banned or challenged book list.

As the saying goes, "The pen is mightier than the sword". It seems very few things have the power to offend and liberate like works of literature.

The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger was the most frequently banned book between 1966 and 1975 because it violated the social morals and standards of the time.

Lithuanian language has been one of the Indo-European languages to exhibit the least amount of change from its original form.

Sponsored by the American Library Association, the 2009 Banned Books Week, running from September 26th through October 3rd, is the 28th of its kind.

The most popular stories of the middle ages today are the romances of knights and Kings. But these romances inspired another kind of literature which succeeded it.

Bravo for Wasilla, Alaska, the tlny town Sarah Palin put in the limelight. It is struggling, with stressed resources, to meet the national public's legal "right to know".

Milan Kundera's "Ignorance" explores the themes of emigration, nostalgia, and changes in memory.

Salman Rushdie published his novel, "The Satanic Verses," in 1988 and an immediate controversy exploded, causing a death sentence to be pronounced upon his head.