Dope1: Books aren't being banned in Florida.

Umm, what?

HB 1069 requires the suspension (not age-restriction) of materials alleged to contain pornography or obscene depictions of sexual conduct, as identified in current law, pending resolution of an objection to the material. A district school board must also discontinue the use of any material the board does not allow a parent to read aloud. A work's literary merit is immaterial.

Collier County Public Schools in Florida alone has banned more than 300 books from its school libraries.


The list includes:

Beloved, Song of Solomon, Sula, and The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

Another Nobel Prize-winner, Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls, In Our Time, and The Sun Also Rises.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, by Ken Kesey.

2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke.

Stardust, by Neil Gaiman.

Many Waters, by Madeleine L’Engle.

The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas.

Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley.

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac.

Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes.

A Good Man is Hard to Find And Other Stories, by Flannery O’Connor.

Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

The Once and Future King, by T.H. White