Perhaps his most well-known work, Blankets, part-graphic novel and part-memoir, contains topics that tend to make most Americans squeamish, including questioning the authority of Christianity and the existence of God, frank discussions of masturbation, and explorations into teenage sexuality. Thompson’s books have been banned before. The book’s inclusion in the exhibit didn’t surprise me. Memorial Library’s display of the most frequently banned books last year was Habibi, a graphic novel by Craig Thompson. One of the books I saw featured in the Martin Luther King Jr. My passion for defending the freedom of speech and expression aside, I’ve always viewed lists of banned books as reading recommendations, my attitude being that anything controversial enough to be banned must be interesting. I’ve always been fascinated by banned books week.
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