Brave New World is an example of being banned for advocating things that it in fact advocates against, because the book actually requires you to pay attention to what it is telling you.
It was banned in Ireland in 1932, a Missouri town in 1980, an Alabama high school in 2000; and challenged in Oklahoma in 1988, California in 1993, Texas in 2003, and Indiana in 2008. Compliants mostly dwelled on the book's supposed endorsement of free love, free drugs, atheism, and rejection of the nuclear family. This would be half-way legitimate if the fictional society promoting those traits was presented as a utopia, but… it's not. Brave New World has been compared to Nineteen Eighty-Four in its contributions to dystopian science fiction.
Ah, the narrator of relative reliableness. Without it we wouldn't have, oh, The Tell Tale Heart, or The Yellow Wallpaper, or Fight Club.
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