Hmmm...I don't think I read any book that was 'banned' in my area, or that I know of. I don't really keep up with that, but...
Where the hell were these banned? o.o
They were all banned at some point or other, primarily in the American South.
Slaughterhouse-Five:
"Residents of Drake, North Dakota challenged it in 1973 and it was banned in Rochester, Michigan because the novel "contains and makes references to religious matters" and thus fell under the establishment clause. An appellate court upheld its usage in the school in the case of
Todd v. Rochester Community Schools."
The Lord of the Flies:
"... challenged in the Dallas, Texas, Independent School District's high school libraries in 1974 and the Sully Buttes, South Dakota high school in 1981.
Also in 1981, it was challenged at the Owen, North Carolina high school because the book was "demoralizing, in that it implies that man is little more than an animal."
It was considered "inappropriate reading" in a Marana, Arizona, high school in 1983 and a year later challenged in the Olney, Texas, Independent School District for "excessive violence and bad language"."
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:
"Because of this controversy over whether Huckleberry Finn is racist or anti-racist, and because the word "nigger" is frequently used in the novel, many have questioned the appropriateness of teaching the book in the U.S. public school system—this questioning of the word "nigger" is illustrated by a school administrator of Virginia in 1982 calling the novel the "most grotesque example of racism I've ever seen in my life". According to the American Library Association, Huckleberry Finn was the fifth most frequently challenged book in the United States during the 1990s."
To Kill a Mockingbird:
"Racial slurs, profanity, and blunt dialogue about rape have led people to challenge its appropriateness in libraries and classrooms so often that, today, the American Library Association reports that To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the most challenged classics of all time and still ranks at number 21 of the 100 most frequently challenged books of 2000–2009. Even as recently as 2011 and amid 326 other book challenges for that year, it ranks in the top ten more than 50 years after seeing print.
... the first major incident surrounding the book was in Hanover, Virginia, in 1966 when a parent protested that the use of rape as a plot device was immoral. Several examples of letters to local newspapers- which ranged from amusement to fury- expressed mostly outrage over the depictions of rape. Upon learning that school administrators were holding hearings regarding the book's appropriateness for the classroom, Harper Lee sent $10 to The Richmond News Leader suggesting it to be used toward the enrollment of "the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.""