Warning: Shocking Titles Ahead.

Shelver Cheri has here Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.  Published in 1865, it was soon banned (in 1900) "from classroom use at Woodsville High School in Haverhill, New Hampshire, because the novel contained expletives, references to masturbation and sexual fantasies, and 'derogatory characterizations of teachers and religious ceremonies'.” [citation]  In 1931, the book has been "banned in Hunan, China for portraying animals and humans as being on the same level, something the government there believed would be a disastrous lesson for children." [citation]

Fortunately, this is one book that isn't on the ALA's Banned and Challenged Classics list.

Fourth out of the 464 reported challenges in 2012 is E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey (here with Reference Assistant Jake).  Originally self-published in 2011, circulating copies of the book were removed from shelves of public libraries in Florida in May, 2012.  In this case, library staff made the decision to withdraw the 19 copies.  Other area libraries declined to purchase the book, also a form of censorship when there is such public demand for a work of fiction. [citation]. 

Taking the book's censorship a step further, bookstores in Macae, Brazil, were ordered by a judge to remove the book from the shelves earlier this year.  "The books can be returned to the shelves only if they are sealed and placed out of reach of minors." [citation]

As a patron challenging the removal of Fifty Shades of Grey said, “We’re adults. We can make these decisions ourselves.”

Choose for yourself, and let others do the same.