30 Banned Books You Should Read
"Lady Chatterley's Lover" Is Among These Iconic Books That Have Been Banned
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It became a bestseller and spawned a series of blockbuster films, but "The Hunger Games" ($13, originally $15) by Suzanne Collins hasn't had an entirely smooth road to success. The popular YA series, set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic North America, follows a teenage girl who is forced to participate in a brutal, televised death match. As you might suspect from the subject matter, the series landed on the 2010s' most-challenged list, too, for complaints over violence, as well as being antireligion and occult (despite there being no significant mentions of either religion or the supernatural in the trilogy).