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Banned & Challenged Books

The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood | 1985

Challenge reasons: Sexuality, profanity, suicide, violence, anti-Christian themes

In 2012, parents in Guilford County, NC tried to have this book banned because it denigrate[s] Christianity.