/lit/ - Literature

Even as a kid I knew that banned books week was a fucking scam. Why would the powers that be care if I read Harry Potter, To Kill a Mockingbird or Captain Underpants?
Below are the REAL banned books, the ones that libraries don't generally carry either out of obscurity, horrific event or controversy.
>Turner Diaries - William Pierce
>Hunter - William Pierce
>White Power - George Lincoln Rockwell
>Industrial Society and its Future - The Unabomber
>The Bell Curve (Somewhat common) - Murray
>White Identity - Jarod Taylor
>Rules for Radicals - Saul Alinsky
>The Rising Tide of Color - Stoddard
>Any of the rarer books written by Alex Jones
>Tomorrow We Live - Mosley
>The Anarchist Cookbook - Author disavowed
>Siege - James Mason
>Revolt Against the Modern World - Evola
>On The Jews and their Lies - Luther
>The Jewish Century - Slezkine
>Manifesto - Feder
>88 Precepts - Lane
>The International Jew - Ford
>Democracy, The God That Failed - Hoppe
Most of these books are right wing with a few exceptions, but that is author bias on my part. My larger point is not that these books have any particular value to a 12 year old at the library, I am not even claiming that these books are of high quality (some are poorly written) but these are true "banned" (or as close as you can get in America) books.
The truth is that no book is truly banned and it is marketing, at the end of the day, it is a scheme to get kids who may not have been interested in books to try an "edgy" book. But I think that the charade has worn itself out. Kids today see gore videos online and are regularly exposed to the internet hate machine. Harry Potter being banned in a Mississippi Catholic School in 1980 won't exactly motivate them to read it.