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The Library

Nigel Bruce

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The Library

The Library is home to many banned books. Well, maybe not all banned. Some of them... In some places but not others. But definitely all controversial. As The Guardian reports:

These demands to remove and restrict books and other library materials are not the result of any grassroots or popular sentiment,” read the ALA’s 2025 State of America’s Libraries report, published on Monday. “The majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements long dedicated to curbing access to information and ideas.
Lolita
Dark-Materials
Ulysses
Wonderful-Wizard-of-Oz
Master-and-Margarita
Fire
Casanova-Memoires
Eves-Diary
Joan-of-Arc
Huckleberry-Finn
Lady-Chatterlys-Lover
A-Modest-Proposal

And then a few related controversial record album covers from when you could get away with this stuff:

Beatles-butcher-cover
Lennon-Ono-Two-Virgins
Scorpions-Virgin-Killer

Higher res versions and explanations are available in Wikipedia... They are The Beatles' Yesterday and Today (1966); John Lennon and Yoko Ono's Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins (1968) and The Scorpions' Virgin Killer (1976).