451 Degrees

Get out your bonfires folks. We’ve got a list of the 10 Most Harmful Books of the 19^th and 20^th centuries offered up by the national conservative weekly Human Events.

Now I haven’t read any of these books on the list, perhaps its own embarrassing admission, but can a book really be harmful? The consequences might have been (communism clearly lead to some horrendous conditions in Russia and, still, China). The author might have been (hard to debate that when it comes to Hitler).

But how many lives have been taken in the name of the Bible? Or the Koran? Wouldn’t be politically correct to throw those books on there, though, now would it?

I don’t actually believe that books are innately harmful. They can affect cultures in powerful ways. But in saying that, I’ve just tripped down a conservative path (books don’t kill people; people kill people). So please prove me wrong. What books do you truly think are harmful, that should never have been published?