Freiburg, Germany, Central Station Bookshop (right @the center of the shop‘s entryway): “This is a selection of books which are banned at schools in the US“. #UniteAgainstBookBans #FreedomToRead @ala-pla.bsky.social @librarypolicy.bsky.social
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apr 8, 2025, 7:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Important clarification: These books are not banned at ALL US schools. The number of bans by public schools and school districts, however increases rapidly. According to PEN America‘s Index of Banned Books, most bans occur in Florida, Iowa and Texas, source: pen.org/report/beyon...
apr 4, 2025, 8:00 pm • 111 18 • view
Yeah, I was cringing a bit. Europeans in general do not appreciate how decentralized our education system is. My kids' school (in WA) have not only not banned books, they've assigned some of those as required reading.
apr 5, 2025, 1:00 am • 6 1 • view
Our education system in Germany is also decentralized - as a deliberate measure taken by the Western Allied forces After WWII to counter Gleichschaltung / bringing into line of education - and all other sectors of society - by the Nazis from 1933-45. Schools & unis are in the sole area of control /
apr 5, 2025, 2:32 pm • 4 0 • view
of the respective states. As someone who moved (pre PISA & BOLOGNA process) between states with very different curricula, I can attest to the disadvantages for individual students. Banning books, words and ideas is however much much easier & more devastating in a centralized educational system.
apr 5, 2025, 2:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Our schools are governed locally. States set standards and are responsible for accreditation and some funding, but by and large funding and decisions about curricula, content, and books is done at the district level. We have >13,000 school districts.
apr 5, 2025, 3:07 pm • 1 0 • view
It is just important context because in a place like FL, where they've been on a banning spree, it isn't that there are thousands of books banned statewide. There are thousands of bans across the state.
apr 5, 2025, 3:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Mind-blowing how controlling TX and FL can be with the pop they have!
apr 5, 2025, 6:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Big brain energy chart
apr 5, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
And they ban 1984. I wonder why.
apr 5, 2025, 5:40 pm • 0 0 • view
over 4,000 bans in Florida... makes sense but is also unbelievable
apr 5, 2025, 3:46 am • 3 0 • view
As of now, PEN America‘s Banned Books List 2025 registers e.g. 97 bans against John Green‘s Looking for Alaska; 85 against Chobsky‘s Perks of Being a Wallflower, and 76 against Asher, 13 Reasons Why. pen.org/banned-books...
apr 4, 2025, 8:00 pm • 45 9 • view
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apr 5, 2025, 5:32 am • 7 3 • view
apr 5, 2025, 6:45 pm • 41 13 • view
apr 6, 2025, 6:39 pm • 5 1 • view
Education matters. Differing opinions matter. Discourse matters. Science matters. We learn by reading, talking, observing, thinking, testing and repetition. So it matters that we have time and willingness to look at stuff that's new to us. And each generation needs to relearn. Tell your story
apr 5, 2025, 8:42 pm • 3 0 • view
Iowa has such a disproportionate number of bans for it's population that's crazy.
apr 5, 2025, 1:52 am • 4 0 • view
Yeah, I was really surprised by Iowa
apr 5, 2025, 3:15 am • 2 0 • view
For details on the current state of book bans in the US, see here: pen.org/book-bans/ #EduSky
apr 4, 2025, 5:23 pm • 102 36 • view
Who in hell makes these absurd lists up??? BOOKS BANNED IN AMERICA????
apr 5, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
There’s also a premade letter to our politicians to be sent in protest of the books bans provided with this link too. 🩵
apr 5, 2025, 1:41 pm • 6 0 • view
Could you share a link?
apr 5, 2025, 2:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Sure! It’s in the link you provided! 🩵🥰🩵 act.pen.org/a/we-believe...
apr 5, 2025, 3:19 pm • 6 0 • view
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apr 4, 2025, 5:57 pm • 1 0 • view
1984? Omg !
apr 4, 2025, 10:17 pm • 4 0 • view
Buy them while you can
apr 5, 2025, 10:02 am • 5 1 • view
Yes! And buy printed copies & in local (independent) bookstores. Also: This is a really good time to gift banned books to the kids & teens u care about. www.indiebound.org/indie-store-...
apr 5, 2025, 10:17 am • 5 1 • view
Maus, The Handmaid's Tale and 1984 would be a good read for some adult members of this administration.
apr 5, 2025, 8:17 pm • 2 0 • view
is it just me or are these "banned" books not banned because they're literally apart of my english class curriculum 😭
apr 5, 2025, 5:07 am • 3 0 • view
District dependent iirc
apr 5, 2025, 5:12 am • 0 0 • view
I get that it makes a striking point but I wish more people understood that schools are not federal, and standards are different in every state. Both Maus and 1984 are commonly taught in Lit classes in school.
apr 4, 2025, 10:02 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes. I clarified that in my follow-up skeets and shared the link to PEN America’s Index of Banned Books that allows to filter which books are banned in which school districts.
apr 4, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I saw - it was more a comment on the sign in the picture
apr 5, 2025, 12:34 am • 1 0 • view
Sehr gute Idee😃🖖
apr 5, 2025, 9:22 am • 2 0 • view
Really? 1984 is banned?!
apr 4, 2025, 10:11 pm • 2 0 • view
Every single one of those is available at my high school library in Texas. I just checked. Obviously available in English, not German but still. 1984 is on the optional reading list for 11th grade as well.
apr 4, 2025, 8:50 pm • 2 0 • view
If you want to check in which US school districts these books have been banned, see here: pen.org/book-bans/pe...
apr 4, 2025, 9:59 pm • 2 0 • view
I love it when book stores make a special effort to.let readers know that these are Banned books. Here & abroad. 👏
apr 5, 2025, 3:14 am • 1 0 • view
Why the heck did they ban the "A Court Of..." series? 🤯🤯🤯😵
apr 5, 2025, 7:59 am • 1 0 • view
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
apr 5, 2025, 5:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Gee, I wonder what kind of person would benefit from banning 1984 or the Trial...definitely not a tyrannical autocrat with no regard for basic human decency...no sir. Definitely none of those in the Wihite House...unrelated, wonder when they ban the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution
apr 5, 2025, 9:22 am • 1 0 • view
apr 4, 2025, 7:20 pm • 9 0 • view
Why?
apr 4, 2025, 7:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Because they are facists and don’t want to let the kids know how it began.
apr 4, 2025, 7:56 pm • 9 0 • view
Because of „obscenities and nudity“. www.derstandard.de/story/200013...
apr 4, 2025, 9:30 pm • 7 2 • view
1984 banned? Presumably because the book is eerily similar to what is happening in the world today. One of the best books I’ve read.
apr 5, 2025, 9:57 am • 3 0 • view
I own two of those banned books — Maus and 1984. Both are essential reading, but they’re also horror stories in their own right. Maus is the horror of history, and 1984 is psychological horror — both chilling because they’re rooted in truth.
apr 5, 2025, 11:35 am • 6 0 • view
So embarrassing. It just feels wrong to try and pass for Canadian though.
apr 5, 2025, 1:16 am • 0 0 • view
As a public high school English teacher, I defy book bans and make banned books available to my students. After 26 years of teaching, no student resorted to criminal activity or antisocial behavior. Only cults and facists limit knowledge.
apr 5, 2025, 11:25 am • 1 0 • view
Toni Morrison should be on everyone's reading list
apr 5, 2025, 11:56 am • 4 0 • view
I don't recognize the rest, but 1984 is banned?????
apr 4, 2025, 11:15 pm • 1 0 • view
The titles of the English originals are in the alt text. Please note, none of these books has been banned at ALL schools in the US, nor most of them. I have linked to the searchable PEN America Index of Banned Books, in the follow-up skeets to my original post, if you want to check for 1984.
apr 4, 2025, 11:23 pm • 1 0 • view
I remember once installing a display of them at the local library where I worked. They flew out…
apr 5, 2025, 3:15 pm • 3 0 • view
How times have changed
apr 5, 2025, 11:56 am • 0 0 • view
Why the heck is "Looking For Alaska" on this list? That book was epic and fantastic, and had almost no reason to be banned that I could think of...
apr 5, 2025, 9:18 pm • 1 0 • view
I'd pull my kids OUT of that school. And any school that had issues with boy's hair length
apr 5, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Ridiculous…
apr 5, 2025, 2:58 am • 0 0 • view
Bonus points for spotting how many of the books in this apt image are already banned ..
apr 5, 2025, 11:44 am • 4 1 • view
I burned my copy of Fahrenheit 451 out of protest
apr 4, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
In southern red states maybe, even then it's only few of them. But we have tables like this too in all major bookstores here so don't get the wrong idea at this
apr 5, 2025, 1:30 am • 2 0 • view
I believe there was a republican playbook titled 2021 but when the coup didn't work, it was changed to 2025. Like the Nazi's, it gave them 4 more years of planning. Too bad they didn't factor in the MOTIVATION, DETERMINATION and INDIGNATION of 300 million (or so) people. We have power!
apr 5, 2025, 12:23 pm • 7 1 • view
Project 2025 has been in the works for decades under different guises and schemes. The rich have always been greedy. It’s getting more exasperated because our economy is getting more complicated and the equity between the top and bottom are getting so far apart.
apr 5, 2025, 1:31 pm • 5 1 • view
The US is a joke, and not a funny one, which makes it the worst type of joke.
apr 5, 2025, 5:06 am • 0 0 • view
Interesting that "Maus" is one of them and that they are featuring it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maus
apr 5, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
Só they didn't banned " On tyranny" ? Noice ☝️🤓
apr 5, 2025, 8:19 am • 1 0 • view
And why might Maus be on this list... Hmm...
apr 5, 2025, 5:06 pm • 4 0 • view
Is that really true?they’ve banned 1984 in the name of free speech
apr 4, 2025, 9:27 pm • 22 1 • view
They banned it because they don't want people to spoil their plans
apr 4, 2025, 9:47 pm • 3 0 • view
Correct. The book 1984 is a prediction of what's happening in these very times. The book is disturbing !
apr 5, 2025, 6:32 am • 1 0 • view
You can check in which school districts 1984 has been banned here: pen.org/book-bans/pe...
apr 4, 2025, 9:56 pm • 11 2 • view
I was looking for some book recommendations! Thanks 🙏 🤗
apr 5, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Books are dangerous. Just buy a nice, safe AR15 instead. What could possibly go wrong?
apr 5, 2025, 3:13 pm • 0 0 • view
I want to see the list of the 400 books removed from the US Naval Academy.
apr 6, 2025, 2:05 am • 0 0 • view
Follow the link to the list with the 381 books they removed in the 2nd paragraph of this article www.cbsnews.com/news/dei-pur...
apr 6, 2025, 8:40 am • 2 0 • view
media.defense.gov/2025/Apr/04/...
apr 6, 2025, 8:40 am • 1 0 • view
Thanks so much for sharing that!
apr 6, 2025, 1:24 pm • 1 0 • view
Of COURSE they banned Maus. Jesus. I need to go find my copy.
apr 4, 2025, 9:53 pm • 0 0 • view
1984? That was required reading when I was in 7th grade
apr 5, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
Es ist alles furchtbar schlimm … aber immerhin weiß man jetzt, was man def. noch lesen sollte, wenn man es nicht schon getan hat …
apr 4, 2025, 10:08 pm • 7 0 • view
At least five of those are typical novels to be read in English classes in Germany.
apr 5, 2025, 12:40 pm • 13 1 • view
And in Massachusetts!
apr 5, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, seeing the response to this post, I‘d say we have a ‚teachable moment‘ at hand, not only in English classrooms 💫 And imagine the possibilities if #booktok got on board… 🤩
apr 5, 2025, 12:46 pm • 2 1 • view
Maus is brilliant
apr 5, 2025, 1:54 pm • 2 0 • view
If it's banned, buy it!!
apr 5, 2025, 6:10 pm • 4 0 • view
"Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" my ass.
apr 5, 2025, 4:14 pm • 6 1 • view
Der Drachenläufer auch? Den muss ich wohl mal wieder rauskramen… was hat ihnen denn daran nicht gefallen?
apr 4, 2025, 9:07 pm • 1 0 • view
*at some schools in the US.
apr 4, 2025, 6:48 pm • 8 0 • view
Yes, important clarification - Tanks! Will add this to avoid misunderstandings.
apr 4, 2025, 6:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Meta uses Atwood‘s Handmaid‘s Tale for training their AI though. Other banned books too. Can be checked here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
apr 5, 2025, 10:39 am • 1 0 • view
Ist die Agenda 2025 dann folgerichtig auch verboten? Ich frag ja nur.
apr 5, 2025, 7:12 am • 1 0 • view
Read them all. It’s a tragedy that they are banned.
apr 5, 2025, 4:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Correction read all the ones in English.
apr 5, 2025, 4:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Maus FFS!
apr 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
1984? Too prophetic maybe?
apr 4, 2025, 10:07 pm • 7 1 • view
📌 #buchtipps #leseempfehlungen
apr 4, 2025, 8:25 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes. Banning books is the stupidest thing that anyone can do. It makes these books irresistible to all, especially kids and will probably do more to increase sales than almost any other marketing tool.
apr 5, 2025, 12:19 am • 4 0 • view
That country is a mess.
apr 5, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
I read half of them and enjoyed them pretty much!
apr 4, 2025, 7:05 pm • 5 0 • view
This is just so ridiculous!!!!!!!!!
apr 5, 2025, 7:09 am • 1 0 • view
Ich kann mich noch sehr gut, an das Haberfeldtreiben auf deutsche Comic Läden erinnern als Maus rauskam. Ich erinnere mich auch noch sehr gut daran, daß kaum beachtet wurde was da passierte.
apr 4, 2025, 6:57 pm • 2 0 • view
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apr 5, 2025, 11:33 am • 0 0 • view
1984, Handmaid's Tale, and Maus. That is a good table of titles—we should have those banned book tables widely here.
apr 5, 2025, 11:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Not all schools. Just some that are in stupid orc jurisdictions.
apr 5, 2025, 10:40 am • 2 0 • view
Embarrassing at best...
apr 5, 2025, 4:33 am • 0 0 • view
Omg! I have at least 4 of those!!! Will they come and arrest me???🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
apr 5, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
literally how do you ban 1984 💀
apr 7, 2025, 6:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Freiburg ist eine schöne Stadt!
apr 5, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
LOOKS LIKE NAZI GERMANY TO ME!
apr 5, 2025, 9:52 pm • 0 0 • view
"banned books" oder auch: Kaufempfehlung
apr 4, 2025, 4:18 pm • 36 4 • view
*Merkliste-hinzufüg-Geräusch* Gerade Atwoods "Handmaid's Tale" / Report der Magd erklärt auch sehr gut das "Woman for Trump"-Phänomen. Allerdings werden manche dieser Frauen mehr als ihren kleinen Finger verlieren. Mehr als ihr Wahlrecht oder ein Auge.
apr 4, 2025, 8:01 pm • 8 0 • view
Sie werden alles verlieren, was sie als Gebärmutter nicht benötigen. Und wir auch, sollten wir nicht langsam unsere Demokratie anfangen zu verteidigen!
apr 4, 2025, 8:01 pm • 8 0 • view
None of these books are 'banned' in America. Some schools have decided they are 'age-inappropriate' due to sexual or violent content. You hint it has something to do with political content. And in fact several of the books you picture are under constant attack from the American 'left'
apr 5, 2025, 7:33 pm • 4 0 • view
1984✅ Handmaid's Tale ✅
apr 4, 2025, 4:06 pm • 10 0 • view
Germany doesn't exactly have a stunning record of defending free speech either. Look how they've reacted to any expression of pro-Palestine sentiment.
apr 5, 2025, 3:20 am • 1 0 • view
I know it's a marketing gimmick more than anything, but for clarity these are allowed in most schools and a few are even required reading for many.
apr 4, 2025, 9:57 pm • 1 0 • view
The German sign does not claim that the books are banned in ALL US schools or the majority of schools, sorry if that got lost on the translation. PEN America keeps track which books have been banned where. Chances of book bans in Florida, Iowa or Texas, are quite high. pen.org/book-bans/
apr 4, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Ok, now I know this is bad faith, because the sign clearly implies a broad ban. Hiding behind the fact that you didn't technically specify the details of the ban is disgusting and the same kind of double speak the people doing the bans use.
apr 4, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel Americans are about to experience The Handmaids Tale. Loss of women's rights. Denial of science. Silence and remove any critics. Authoritarian leadership.
apr 5, 2025, 9:05 am • 15 2 • view
Do you think it is where they got the idea?? Gop isn't talented enough to write this on their own!!!
apr 5, 2025, 6:28 pm • 0 0 • view
I feel the same way. It's 2017-2021 on steroids.
apr 5, 2025, 9:36 am • 1 0 • view
… from the long festering erosion and targeting of the humanities, critical thinking, historical knowledge etc. switching to outright eradication…
apr 5, 2025, 9:18 am • 6 1 • view
So pretty much all books that explain what the musk mafia is currently doing
apr 4, 2025, 10:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Add a US flag in distress What a wonderful way to showcase the superiority of free thought and simultaneously mock backward-thinking Neanderthals (maggots) with a classic kindergarten lemonade stand book display. Though they will need a much bigger table for Florida’s 4,561 banned books. #resist
apr 5, 2025, 11:53 am • 3 1 • view
I posted this not to mock or shame anyone but to show solidarity with everyone who cares about books, knowledge & learning in the US. After all, in Nazi Germany books were banned & BURNED on the national level. Without post-war denazification of the media, school education & academia /
apr 5, 2025, 12:15 pm • 3 0 • view
initiated by the Western Allies, particularly the US, I doubt any German bookstore would showcase books banned in the US today.
apr 5, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree - protecting books now requires laws and our votes are critical. The Freedom to Read Act, enacted in New Jersey on December 9, 2024, protects access to age-appropriate books and prevents arbitrary bans in schools and libraries. Imagine if such laws existed in the majority of states.
apr 5, 2025, 12:24 pm • 3 0 • view
Take a selfie with the books wearing a keffiyeh
apr 5, 2025, 3:11 am • 3 0 • view
I came across a list of books banned in schools I think it was Florida. It looked like a great reading list for children and young people. Save time do the banned list.
apr 5, 2025, 2:03 pm • 2 1 • view
Sad!!
apr 4, 2025, 9:41 pm • 2 0 • view
I have most of these at home for my kids!
apr 5, 2025, 12:05 am • 4 1 • view
What the hell is their beef with the Kite Runner? Or any of them? Land of the Free my ass.
apr 5, 2025, 6:07 am • 0 0 • view
Banning MAUS has always Ben’in the grimmest thing on the list
apr 5, 2025, 12:45 pm • 1 0 • view
In California we have a ban on books bans. Not all states are Gestapo headquarters www.gov.ca.gov/2023/09/25/c...
apr 5, 2025, 12:53 pm • 23 8 • view
Yeah, history cannot be rewritten!!!
apr 5, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Maus I and II (Mouse) were ‘banned’ because the characters are nude! They’re mice FFS! The two books are based on the author’s parents and survival in a nazi concentration camp! Never knew of the books until they were banned. Immediately read both if them! Hah!
apr 5, 2025, 10:34 am • 23 1 • view
I used to teach a whole quarter on those books alongside Elie Weisel's "Night" (in an extremely red area, no less)! I taught English, so many lessons in those about different genres and literary devices, and of course, how powerful the written word can be. I can't fathom banning it.
apr 5, 2025, 12:35 pm • 2 1 • view
When I changed my profession, I gave my lesson plans and materials to other teachers before I did.
apr 5, 2025, 2:39 pm • 1 1 • view
😊
apr 5, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 1 • view
Or maybe the "mouse nudity" was an excuse and they were banned for anti-Nazism?
apr 5, 2025, 10:57 am • 14 1 • view
Of course. The toad and maga repubs think we’re stupid like their maga base and will believe any BS they toss at us! I laughed out loud when I read why Maus I and II were banned!
apr 5, 2025, 11:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Ik heb er hier vier van op mijn boekenplank 🧐
apr 5, 2025, 12:11 pm • 3 0 • view
I highly recommend 1984 by George Orwell! A real eye opener
apr 4, 2025, 9:08 pm • 6 0 • view
But isn't that why it's banned. Too much of an eye opener. I think it's a great read too. Disturbing, but great !
apr 5, 2025, 6:38 am • 0 0 • view
Das halbbiografische Kinderbuch „Freckleface Strawberry“ der U.S.-Schauspielerin Julianne Moore gehört auch dazu
apr 4, 2025, 4:56 pm • 6 0 • view
Leider noch sehrsehrsehrviele andere: pen.org/book-bans/
apr 4, 2025, 5:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Mindestens 4 davon schon in der Schule lesen lassen und zwei waren im Zentralabi fest verankert.
apr 5, 2025, 11:43 am • 2 0 • view
Ich habe lustigerweise zwei davon für die Schule lesen müssen. Maus und 1984.
apr 6, 2025, 12:02 am • 5 0 • view
Hat vermutlich nicht geschadet, oder?
apr 6, 2025, 12:03 am • 1 0 • view
Ich bin heute großer Kritiker von Karin Prien sowie aller rechten Parteien. Aus Sicht des Landes und des Bundes also vermutlich schon🤔😆 Aber mal Spaß beiseite: Besonders Maus hat mich damals sehr beeindruckt und ist mit verantwortlich, dass ich mich bis heute für die NS-Vergangenheit interessiere.
apr 6, 2025, 12:11 am • 2 0 • view
* some, many, schools
apr 5, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Great marketing
apr 4, 2025, 9:53 pm • 1 0 • view
Federally banned?
apr 4, 2025, 8:34 pm • 1 0 • view
No - the sign at the boookstore I translated verbatim might be a bit misleading. The books on the table are banned by a significant, and ever increasing number of individual public schools or school districts in the US; for details, see my follow-up skeets.
apr 4, 2025, 8:50 pm • 3 0 • view
apr 4, 2025, 6:59 pm • 32 5 • view
To the point. I am currently trying to find as many ways as possible to convince my BA students of the value of reading PRINTED books and articles. And of the value of reading slowly & the ENTIRETY of a text - instead of using texts for scanning/ChatGPTing them to extract info. Way to go…
apr 4, 2025, 8:38 pm • 12 2 • view
Meanwhile Germany. (Not excusing US fascism but condemning both tbc)
apr 5, 2025, 3:13 am • 6 0 • view
Despicable!
apr 5, 2025, 2:13 am • 0 0 • view
1984, na klar!
apr 5, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Water for elephants? 😳🤨
apr 4, 2025, 5:40 pm • 2 0 • view
I remember seeing this kind of thing growing up, except the bans were in the USSR or China.
apr 5, 2025, 9:59 am • 1 0 • view
I will never understand my fellow countrymen and banning books.
apr 5, 2025, 12:54 pm • 3 1 • view
apr 5, 2025, 2:35 am • 0 0 • view
Darf diese Version von MAUS inzwischen in Deutschland verkauft werden? Mit Hakenkreuz?
apr 4, 2025, 5:37 pm • 9 0 • view
Ja, steht bei mir im Bücherschrank und ist ziemlich neu, da ich nur die englische Fassung hatte.
apr 5, 2025, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view
Die habe ich hier auch so, also ja.
apr 4, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
Ja, hatte ich neulich in einer Buchhandlung in der Hand.
apr 4, 2025, 6:54 pm • 7 0 • view
I am embarrassed 😳😳 and hope all Americans make it a point to read them if they haven't already.
apr 5, 2025, 2:19 pm • 0 0 • view
"Maus" is front and center!
apr 5, 2025, 10:53 am • 0 0 • view
😎
apr 4, 2025, 8:40 pm • 0 0 • view
54% of Americans read at the level of 11 year olds + 21% cannot read at all = 75% of the population. Books are almost useless in the US right now.
apr 5, 2025, 3:08 am • 0 0 • view
How to paint a pict of the country that was once a bight light upon the hill Didn't pay the bill Power cut off
apr 5, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Is Mein Kampf accepted reading in US schools?
apr 4, 2025, 9:52 pm • 1 0 • view
I love Freiburg 💗
apr 4, 2025, 7:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Throne of Glass is banned? WTH?!😾
apr 4, 2025, 10:13 pm • 0 0 • view
On one hand it’s a speculation, as there is no US state policy to ban any of these books. “Ban at school” usually means that at some specific school a group of idiots insisted on excluding a specific book from the program. But there is nothing like a real ban or real national wide prohibition.
apr 5, 2025, 4:07 pm • 3 0 • view
On the other hand, the list of books, which made some group of idiots sad, is way way way bigger. Moreover, the English classics like Romeo and Juliette is sometimes ’banned’ as well.
apr 5, 2025, 4:07 pm • 2 0 • view
📌 Banned books are the best books. 😎
apr 5, 2025, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
So embarrassing
apr 5, 2025, 2:57 am • 2 0 • view
Basically, all the books that criticize and condemn and foreshadow the shit going on in the United States right now.
apr 5, 2025, 1:00 pm • 2 1 • view
Omg! I LOVE Freiburg. Studied there for a summer. Wow. Perfect place for that stack of books too. 🙌
apr 4, 2025, 9:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Water for elephants?? Wtf
apr 5, 2025, 5:29 am • 3 0 • view
Wasser für die Elefanten? Ich verstehe es nicht 🤦♀️
apr 4, 2025, 6:37 pm • 8 0 • view
Lehnt sich da nicht jemand gegen einen tyrannischen Typen auf? Ggf zu viel Anleitung zu Widerstand?
apr 5, 2025, 5:22 am • 1 0 • view
Dann müssen fast alle Bücher weg, denn im Kern geht es doch immer gut gegen Böse 🤔
apr 5, 2025, 5:27 am • 1 0 • view
Ja, wer weiß was noch kommt😳
apr 5, 2025, 5:28 am • 1 0 • view
Surprisingly, I do not see the camp of the Saints book in that pile of “Band Books”
apr 5, 2025, 4:09 am • 3 0 • view
Took my grade 12’s to the Toronto Reference library. They all took pictures of the wall of books that had been banned in different parts of the world. They were shocked that some of the books they read had been banned. Great way to encourage people to read these books!
apr 5, 2025, 2:12 pm • 9 1 • view
Judging the response to this post, we have a promising ‚teachable moment‘ at hand, inside & outside of the US. ❤️✊🏽
apr 5, 2025, 2:14 pm • 2 1 • view
I read Maus in school, but that was.....around 25 years ago probably.... What districts have banned these?
apr 4, 2025, 9:39 pm • 2 0 • view
You can check for details here (number of bans has increased since, however): pen.org/book-bans/20...
apr 4, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
After 20 pages of Florida, I have empirically determined without any possibility of mistake or disagreement that it is mostly Florida. This confirms my pre-existing suspicion that Florida is an insane place full of insane people.
apr 4, 2025, 9:52 pm • 2 0 • view
It's fucking WILD that 1984 is banned, they live in it ...
apr 5, 2025, 7:11 am • 1 0 • view
Germany. Paying it forward. I hope they can regain the prestige their universities had prior to the Nazis taking over.
apr 5, 2025, 7:22 pm • 1 0 • view
Why is “1984” banned?
apr 5, 2025, 5:05 am • 3 0 • view
Because its predicting and foretelling the current political situation.
apr 5, 2025, 6:35 am • 2 0 • view
I’m not for banning books. Not even Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”. Have you read that one? There is no getting through it! It’s not only disgusting but such bad writing. And there’s always a possibility to put a disclaimer on it.
apr 5, 2025, 6:53 am • 0 0 • view
I agree. I'm not for banning books either. I didn't venture as far as " Mein Kampt ". I wouldn't think its my cup of tea ! Though I'm sure 🍊 face, read it twice over 🙄
apr 5, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Der Regenbogenfisch ist verbannt und das Kinderbuch von Julianne Moore www.24books.de/aktuelles/ki... Meinungsfreiheit!!!🤦♀️😡
apr 5, 2025, 10:19 am • 3 0 • view
Where is a good place to protest Israel publicly in Germany?
apr 5, 2025, 3:02 am • 5 0 • view
In prison being charged with antisemitism for being against mass murder
apr 5, 2025, 3:18 am • 5 0 • view
HAVING ACCESS TO 1984 WAS WHY MY HIGH SCHOOL DIDNT COMPLETELY SUCK
apr 5, 2025, 1:28 pm • 7 1 • view
Am re-reading it now as we live it!!
apr 5, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Banning the novel 1984 is particularly perverse, as that’s the world this administration wants to create.
apr 5, 2025, 5:24 am • 2 0 • view
Io 1984 l'ho letto al liceo. E studiato.
apr 5, 2025, 11:13 am • 4 0 • view
Sogar John Green?!
apr 4, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Und noch viel mehr leider: pen.org/book-bans/
apr 4, 2025, 5:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Amerikas Gotteskrieger wollen keine Kinder, die sich kritisch mit gesellschaftlichen Themen auseinandersetzen. Bildung ist hinderlich.
apr 4, 2025, 5:43 pm • 5 0 • view
Everyone should read Maus
apr 4, 2025, 10:21 pm • 0 0 • view
Great selling point
apr 5, 2025, 2:04 pm • 3 1 • view
I work at a high school library that has all of these. No banning…yet.
apr 5, 2025, 7:24 pm • 1 0 • view
WAIT MAUS IS BANNED IN THE US ?!?! WTF
apr 5, 2025, 10:45 am • 2 0 • view
You can check in which US school districts MAUS is banned & for which reasons here 👉🏼 pen.org/book-bans/pe...
apr 5, 2025, 10:56 am • 0 0 • view
Ich höre gerade 1984. Das Hörspiel ist bei Audible Zusatzkostenfrei im Abo enthalten. Throne of Glass und das Reich der Sieben Höfe irritieren mich. Hatte sie bisher als belanglose Belletristik wahrgenommen 🤔
apr 4, 2025, 8:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Hab kein einziges Buch von Maas gelesen, Fantasy ist nicht so meine Spezialstrecke😜 (außer Tintenherz u.ä.) Lese gerade Orwells Rosen von Rebecca Solnit - sehr empfehlenswert! Insbesondere als Komplementärlektüre zu 1984. www.rowohlt.de/buch/rebecca...
apr 4, 2025, 8:15 pm • 3 0 • view
How absolutely mortifyingly embarrassing
apr 5, 2025, 3:33 pm • 1 0 • view
Maus??? Wie kann der Comic dort verboten sein wenn der Grossteil in Nazideutschland spielt? Die Amis wissen sehr wenig über den Holocaust und Art Spiegelmann erzählt die herzzerreißende Geschichte seines Vater und zu dem die sehr schwierige Beziehung zu ihm generell. In New York gabs Maus überall.
apr 5, 2025, 1:19 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks for sharing, I Must go through the station to the shop☺️😍
apr 4, 2025, 8:38 pm • 5 0 • view
MAUS was pivotal for me as a young man, I cherish it. I can't believe it's part of the banned books here 😡 well, I guess I can 🙄 along with all the others that profoundly impact us. I'm here in hell, trying to fight to get out 👊🇺🇸🔥
apr 5, 2025, 2:08 am • 1 0 • view
We have a similar display at our nearby Barnes and nobles. Today we went and my daughter asked why books are banned. I had to tell her some people think ideas are dangerous. I also pointed out all the ones we have at home 😁
apr 5, 2025, 2:06 am • 2 0 • view
I'm sure there's a theme here, I just can't quite put my finger on it... The first thing any teacher should do is tell their students to read the banned books. Might provoke the sin of empathy, but a life without sin sounds dull.
apr 5, 2025, 1:46 pm • 4 0 • view
Why? I have read most of the books on the table and they are eye openers and also ones that make you cry! Why?
apr 5, 2025, 3:08 pm • 5 0 • view
Damn they banned Sherman Alexie...
apr 5, 2025, 10:18 am • 4 0 • view
Always props for Maus
apr 4, 2025, 9:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Did they actually ban "Maus"? On what grounds?
apr 5, 2025, 7:52 pm • 3 0 • view
How the heck can anyone defend banning Maus? I can see (bad faith) arguments for the other books there that I've read, but Maus? Cant think of a single (bad faith) line of attack. Is it actual Holocaust deniers or something?
apr 5, 2025, 7:19 am • 4 0 • view
Yep, that's the reason.
apr 5, 2025, 7:31 am • 2 0 • view
Wow; I knew things were bad in the US but thought the Trumpers did at least recognise the Holocaust was 'a thing'. How do they explain the justification for the creation of Israel (whom they seem to support)? How much cognitive dissonance can they sustain?
apr 5, 2025, 7:39 am • 0 0 • view
It's just a very well-connected minority.
apr 5, 2025, 7:47 am • 1 0 • view
One US school banned Maus because it contains pictures of naked mice, which presumably commits them to banning nearly all publicly available images of mice.
apr 5, 2025, 8:03 am • 6 0 • view
It's sad that in these times, I can't tell if that was sarcasm or not 😂 Neither option would surprise me at this point. Either way, everyone should read Maus (even if they have to buy a copy with 'Censored' stickers over cartoon rodent genitalia)
apr 5, 2025, 8:10 am • 1 0 • view
Aldous Huxley ist nicht verboten ?
apr 5, 2025, 6:03 am • 1 0 • view
Wtf, 1984 banned? I kind of get it, but also don't.
apr 4, 2025, 4:45 pm • 6 0 • view
They banned all of the books that would cause a “revolution” against their tyranny. If you look up all of the books that are banned, they are all related to tyranny, facism, racism, communism, etc.
apr 4, 2025, 6:06 pm • 7 0 • view
How embarrassing!!
apr 4, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Jajajjaajanaj German hypocrisy at its best. Germany is the placer where Francesca Albanese was deterred to speak about the Genozide upon the Palestinians...
apr 6, 2025, 10:14 am • 1 0 • view
Jajaja, in Germany you can get deported JUST by critisizing Israhell.
apr 5, 2025, 9:39 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm glad to say that a good number of those grace my shelves.
apr 5, 2025, 12:29 pm • 6 0 • view
Thanks for giving us Nazism, Germany. We are running with it
apr 5, 2025, 9:06 pm • 0 0 • view
The picture shows Orwells "1984". So, as an old cynic, I ask myself how it is that the current regime bans its own founding manifesto of all things? Paradoxical, isn't it?
apr 5, 2025, 8:44 am • 0 0 • view
Maus is banned???? 😡😡🤬🤬😡😡
apr 5, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Open and legal in the UK. Free speech and all that #usa
apr 4, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
The fastest way to get a junior or high school kid to read is to announce something is banned.
apr 5, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
In other words, important books to get. 👌
apr 4, 2025, 10:31 pm • 8 0 • view
Da ist kein Unterschied zu den Bücherverbrennungen der Nazis. Warum sich noch immer viele weigern, Trump (und seine Techmilliardären Schergen) als faschistischen Diktator zu bezeichnen ist Realitätsverweigerung.
apr 5, 2025, 9:16 am • 3 0 • view
And I’ve only read 3 of them, clearly must’ve harder….
apr 5, 2025, 11:47 am • 3 0 • view
Good for them, so shameful for us.
apr 4, 2025, 10:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Das erinnert mich stark an Deutschland 1933! 🔥
apr 4, 2025, 10:16 pm • 3 0 • view
So wild to see some of these that were required reading in the 80s.
apr 5, 2025, 4:26 pm • 6 1 • view
And they still are in many schools across the US. But their number declines quite rapidly, specifically in Florida, Iowa & Texas…
apr 5, 2025, 4:30 pm • 2 0 • view
I went to high school in Texas and moved back to Texas a few years ago. This state is not the awesome state I remember. 😢
apr 5, 2025, 4:36 pm • 2 2 • view
They must have banned 1984 because of all the gay sex in that book.
apr 4, 2025, 10:26 pm • 0 0 • view
As an American, I'm ashamed to say that table isn't nearly big enough. You need to see entire shelves -- actual libraries with nearly empty shelves -- because the rule is "books aren't banned, books have to be approved."
apr 5, 2025, 2:16 am • 6 0 • view
Wait, Throne of Glass? Why?! Also what does it say about me when I have most of the books on there? Lol
apr 5, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
I don’t get the Throne of Glass either. Hope someone clarifies :)
apr 5, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
The Streisand effect works well.
apr 4, 2025, 9:53 pm • 3 0 • view
Buy one of each
apr 5, 2025, 9:50 am • 1 0 • view
Some schools in the US have banned Maus? Sounds like banning that graphic novel would get Musk’s stamp of approval since he wants the world to forget about the Holocaust.
apr 5, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I mean banning Maus is just proof of how evil the US banners are…
apr 4, 2025, 11:07 pm • 3 0 • view
The worst thing is the excuses. It's not that the topic may be too advanced or too harsh for children of a certain age. IIRC Maus was banned because of nudity: it showed a naked mouse. Not the violence. Not the gore. Not the crude biographical story... They banned the book because of a rat's penis.
apr 4, 2025, 11:29 pm • 1 0 • view
A society build on the mores of puritans…
apr 4, 2025, 11:31 pm • 1 0 • view
👀👆🎯
apr 5, 2025, 9:04 am • 0 0 • view
The Sarah J Maas books are largely hard core fairy smut. I’m not surprised they aren’t allowed in schools.
apr 5, 2025, 6:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Being an American is humiliating. I’ve always said about disadvantaged people, they had no control over where in the world they were born. All people ate human beings (with notable exceptions). To wish to be ‘other than American’ is a new one for me. Honestly, I’d rather just have my country back.
apr 5, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Echt? "Eine wie Alaska" auch?
apr 5, 2025, 10:10 am • 0 0 • view
I know it's not the point, but it amuses me The Bluest Eye is translated approximately to Very Blue Eyes
apr 6, 2025, 12:29 am • 2 0 • view
1984 banned in a school library? Which school? Didn’t think so.
apr 5, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
While there's no definitive list of states that have outright banned "1984", the book has been challenged & removed from libraries & classrooms in various states due to concerns about its content, including "pro-communist" themes & "explicit sexual matter". REMOVED FROM LIBRARIES. I.E. BANNED
apr 6, 2025, 2:00 am • 1 0 • view
Did they really ban Maus???
apr 5, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Shameful…
apr 5, 2025, 6:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Something is definitely wrong with your State/County/school board when “1984” is a banned book.
apr 5, 2025, 1:02 pm • 5 1 • view
Banning books has always been a great way to filter out the relevant ones!
apr 5, 2025, 7:24 am • 0 0 • view
Banning books just makes them more popular. It's not like Nazi Germany; with access to computers, you can find anything.
apr 5, 2025, 9:58 pm • 2 0 • view
I haven’t read Kingdom of the Seven Farms (if I translated that correctly) so time to find a new book!
apr 5, 2025, 7:15 pm • 1 0 • view
I like to read banned books!
apr 5, 2025, 4:16 am • 1 0 • view
Germany censors calls for a free Palestine. A pox on both houses
apr 5, 2025, 3:10 am • 5 0 • view
Actually nope. Not yet. Depends upon state and school. This could change though.
apr 5, 2025, 7:28 pm • 1 0 • view
Well that's depressing. Bad enough we have that section at home, let alone in other countries.
apr 5, 2025, 9:05 am • 1 0 • view
I did NOT post it to deepen your political depression , though - but to show transnational reader and book lover solidarity to everyone in the US who cares about books and knowledge and learning. We see you ❤️✊🏽
apr 5, 2025, 9:13 am • 3 0 • view
We own a lot of those books. 🥰
apr 5, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view