List of controversial books

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This is an attempt to have a long list of controversial books not covered by other lists. The book should have a one liner of why it might be controversial to some. If the book has an article, please just link to the article. Otherwise, list author, etc.

The criteria for this list is intentionally loose. Please check the "see also" lists first and decide if redundancy is justified. If the book is fiction or is not quite successful enough to get banned, maybe it belongs here. Feel free to move book to and from this list to/from the other lists as appropriate. This list is a grab bag to maintain the visibility of controversial books that are too obscure or too new to rate listing on more established lists.

There are subjects, such as sex, politics, religion, authority, social coformance, violence, etc. where it is easy to present a naïve or biased approach would is controversial to somebody. It is hoped that this list could be books that are thought-provoking and, when appropriate, of discernable artistics merit or otherwise notable. This list is a grab-bag for books that could not make onto the other lists. Satire is OK. And that grey area between fiction and non-fiction, the fringe conspiracy theories and UFO stuff - sigh - they can come along too. No comic books or pure pornography, please.

As much as anything, this list is a place for listers to express themselves without creating a new category to make their characterizations because WikiMedia categories require more effort to maintain and manage than lists of article (written and yet-to-be written) do.

Please do not wikify the one-liners.

Contents 1 The list 1.1 A - M 1.2 N-Z 2 See also 3 References

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[edit] A - M

• All I Need Is Love - Aging actor talks about his love life
• Apocalypse Culture II - probes social taboos
• The Bias Against Guns - claims that widespread gun ownership prevents crime and is a net social good
• Bilingual Today, French Tomorrow - claims that, with current policies, Canada will be primarily French-speaking in the near future
• The Black Book of Communism - catalogs human rights violations by some Communist states.
• The Calcutta Quran Petition - discusses Hindu/Muslim tensions in India, including several accounts of banning; incidentally, it was itself subject to attempts to ban it
• The Camp of the Saints - Predicts uprising of (and revolution by?) minorities in France and then the world.
• Chariots of the Gods - suggests that extraterrestrials have visited Earth
• A Child Called It - autobiographical account of child abuse
• Clandestine in Chile:The Adventures of Miguel Littin - discusses an exile secretly visits Chile during Pinochet
• Collapse (book) - deals with societal collapses involving an environmental component
• The Confessions of Nat Turner - historical novel
• Conscience of a Conservative - known as a social commentary by Barry Goldwater
• Consciousness Explained - examines mind/brain relationship
• Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge- dreams of grand unification of sciences and humanities
• The Controversy of Zion- supposes Jewish plot to take over the world by subverting countries.
• The Culture of Critique series- portrays Jewish group behavior/culture as a competitive strategy
• Dictionnaire philosophique- Voltaire is critical of society, religion - in alphaetical order
• Dude, Where's My Country? - Michael Moore deals with corporate and political events in the U.S.
• Fight Club - throws into light some darker philosophy
• God's Politics - why the right are wrong and the left just don't get it
• The Emperor's New Mind - subtitle: Concerning Computers, Minds and The Laws of Physics
• The Enemy Within (book) - subtitle: Saving America from the Liberal Assault on our Schools, Faith and Military
• The Feminine Mystique - claims that some women can find fulfillment in non-traditional roles
• Finnegans Wake - This is in the style Ulysses, but much more obscure.
• The First Stone - deals with a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at Ormond College, Melbourne
• From Time Immemorial (book) argues that many of the refugees from the 1948 Arab-Israeli war were not native Palestinians
• The Green Book - Muammar al-Qaddafi's views on democracy and his political philosophy.
• Hogg (novel) - a pornographic novel endorsed by Norman Mailer
• The Hollow Hope - Subtitle: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? (examines judicial activism)
• The Holocaust Industry - Subtitle: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering
• Homesteading the Noosphere - anthropological examination of Open Source software management
• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - claims Africa was held down and used by European colonial regimes.
• In Defense of Internment - subtitle: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror
• Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces NISM?
• Jewish History, Jewish Religion claims Jewish history as told by Israel is ethoncentric
• Like Water for Chocolate frustrated lovers consummate their love late in life in magical Mexico
• Live from Death Row memoirs of a cop-killer, reviews long history of blacks in America
• The Lives of John Lennon - critical of Lennon
• Le Livre noir du Canada Anglais - purports injustices in Canada against the Quebecois, Jewish and aboriginal peoples.
• The Mad Man - a "pornotopic fantasy" (novel)
• The Malay Dilemma - promotes autonomy for the indigenous people of Malaysia
• Mandingo (book) - story about violence towards black slaves in antebellum South
• Michael Moore Is a Big Fat Stupid White Man refutes the arguments set forth in Michael Moore's books
• Might is Right discusses Social Darwinism in a way that could be construed as a blunt affirmation of it.
• Mission Accomplished (Novel) Portrays a fictionalized account of 9/11 as being perpetrated by the US government and blamed on a spurious domestic terrorist organization.
• Josefine Mutzenbacher fictional autobiography novel which deals with sexual activities of Josefine when she was a child.
• The Myth of Islamic Tolerance - ST:How Islamic Law Treats Non-Muslims (suggests: not very nicely)

[edit] N-Z

• Nickel and Dimed ST: On (Not) Getting By in America. Examines "working poor" in post welfare-reform USA
• On the Justice of Roosting Chickens Portrays 9/11 as revenge for Western meddling in Mid-East in 20th century
• Bicameralism (psychology) - divides primitive human mind to expressive and obedient parts
• The Painted Bird (novel) Involves incest, etc.
• Paulicéia Desvairada Poetry that sometimes condemns Brazilian society
• The Plot Against America alternate history novel where Charles Lindbergh is elected U.S. President in 1940
• A Prison Diary diary of a former MP and British prisoner in various jails
• The Rage and The Pride - post-9/11 condemnation of Islam as a totalitarian force bent on destroying Western civilisation
• The Real Anita Hill - purports to revealed the real motives of Anita Hill. Later repudiated by its author.
• The Real Lincoln - severely critical view of Lincoln presidency.
• Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations NISM?
• Samizdat (book) ST: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code . NISM?
• The Satanic Bible, by Anton La Vey
• The Satanic Verses (novel) by Salman Rushdie - considered blasphemous by many Muslims.
• The Secret Mulroney Tapes: Unguarded Confessions of a Prime Minister NISM?
• The Seduction of Hillary Rodham - written by some media watchdog?
• Show Boat - Broadway musical with stereotypical portrayal of blacks as socially inferior
• Siege (book) - Embraces Charles Manson as a Leader for today.
• Starship Troopers - a science fiction novel depicting a lot of warfare
• The Story of Ferdinand - children's book supposedly promoting pacifist propaganda
• Testimony (book) - supposed the memoirs of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich, purporting that he could be, a times, quite rude
• The Truth About Hillary - delves into her sexuality and political ambitions, but includes proven inaccuracies ^[1]
• Unsafe at Any Speed claims that car manufacturers resisted implementing safety features
• Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Pre-Darwin attacks on creationism
• Will They Ever Trust Us Again? questions military sense of loyality after invasion of Iraq

[edit] See also

• List of banned books
• List of controversial non-fiction books

[edit] References

1. ↑ "Klein nailed on falsehoods in Al Franken Show grilling". Mediamatters. Retrieved on November 29, 2005. (With audio interview with Klein on the lies in his book The Truth About Hillary)