I have yet to see a situation where censorship is acceptable in a non-military context. It's the bane of progress.


No. High school is the time for people to begin being exposed from the world.


Hm. Most of the books I am thinking of are either representative of large philosophical trends of the time or reveal my heavy classical bias, but I'll list them anyway.

Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
Vergil's Aeneid.
Martin Luther's Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum (It's a pamphlet. I don't care).
Thomas Paine's Common Sense (It's a pamphlet. I don't care either).
Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England have proven highly influential in the legal world.


Well, Common Sense typically is required reading... I suppose it's a good foundation for the American Revolution. Same with the Odyssey. I think more attention should be paid to the creation of the Protestant church, but that might be a hint of Anglican bias there.


Brave New World, because Huxley was right and it's happening now.
Dante's Inferno, because its influence is difficult to overstate.
In the United States, at least, To Kill a Mockingbird, because it's an excellent portrayal of both history and modern events.
The next two will be poetry. Tennyson and Keats. Those two should be read more.


Yes. We've seen Mark Twain censored because of the use of the word "nigger." The list is practically endless.


Racism is overdone and largely represented by authors whose ability to write compares favorably only with Stephanie Meyer.


The ones I've written above. Toni Morrison springs to mind; writing about racism does not make one an accomplished author.


Russian authors. Any. Crime and Punishment was removed from the syllabus my senior year, and so my class graduated without reading a single Russian author. Or for that matter, either Dickens or Austen. I don't think that's typical, though; Dostoevsky has a pretty prominent place in high school syllabi.


Huxley's Brave New World. The infantilization of society is well under way.