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SUGGESTIONS FOR JANUARY 2014 - BOOKS WITH DANGEROUS IDEAS

Meadow337

Meadow337

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In an attempt to get the suggesting and voting done in good time :D

The theme for January is:

'BOOKS WITH DANGEROUS IDEAS'​

Past or present, banned or unbanned, in any genre - the only criteria is - does the book contain 'dangerous' ideas, new concepts or just plain make you see the world in a new way.

Books are subversive. They contain 'ideas'. And are usually one of the first things that get burned / banned / controlled in authoritarian regimes. So lets find those books that contain 'dangerous ideas'.

Suggest away!
 
Conscious Bob said:
The Satanic Verses, Salman Rushdie.
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That could almost qualify as the 'most dangerous book" of the last 50 years. Certainly in terms of danger to the author anyway.

I'm hoping this topic gets a good response - there are so many books that qualify.

From science, to religion, fiction to non-fiction, social consciousness, universal truths as self help or just a new way of looking at old ideas books or at least the written word have been at the forefront of change. Luthor's manifesto, Galileo and Copernicus, Sir Isaac Newton,Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Gertrude Steiner, so many milestones, so many controversial ideas.
 
John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

Not sure about it containing dangerous idea but it I think it qualifies. :)
 
Well it was banned once or twice and has been on lists of books-to-ban so for some it has dangerous ideas and language. :D
 
A List of Banned and Challenged Classics:

1. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple, by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses, by James Joyce
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
9. 1984, by George Orwell

11. Lolita, by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck

15. Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway

23. Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son, by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway

33. The Call of the Wild, by Jack London

36. Go Tell it on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

38. All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren

40. The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

45. The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair

48. Lady Chatterley's Lover, by D.H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening, by Kate Chopin

53. In Cold Blood, by Truman Capote

55. The Satanic Verses, by Salman Rushdie

57. Sophie's Choice, by William Styron

64. Sons and Lovers, by D.H. Lawrence

66. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles

73. Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love, by D.H. Lawrence

80. The Naked and the Dead, by Norman Mailer

84. Tropic of Cancer, by Henry Miller

88. An American Tragedy, by Theodore Dreiser

97. Rabbit, Run, by John Updike
 
How about some (semi)feminist literature?

To me a book like The World According to Garp - John Irving contains more than a few dangerous ideas. Or Sherri S. Tepper - The Gate to Women's Country.
 
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