5 controversial books you should definitely pick

Book readers search for new kinds of books as soon as they finish one. What interests them apart from the blurb and the cover image? It’s the story behind writing that book. Whether it’s the history of the plot or the flashback in the life of the author, some hot gossips around the topic grab reader’s attention and the book start selling hot. So here, we present to you 5 controversial books you should pick right now.

Controversial books

Sometimes, authors create masterpieces through their writing without knowing the outcome. Often these turn into the talk of the town and the world labels them as controversial books of the era. Check out the list below and see if you have read any.

George Orwell’s 1984

The book promotes civil disobedience and fighting for human rights and liberties in your own personal way. It promotes scepticism of government action. It said that the things governments do to purportedly help you actually hurt you in subtle ways. The promotional idea was promoted that wars are simply fought because frivolous wars are good for social order, structure, and economy. It promotes the idea that the government not only wants to but does, control and influence what you see and hear.

So a valid reason for pro-government countries to ban the book and maintain their sanity.

Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code

The book casts an unflattering light on the Catholic Church. It accused church leaders of demonizing women for centuries and of covering up the truth about the Holy Grail. Brown says that this is Mary Magdalene herself.

Many critics have taken issue with Brown’s claim that Jesus and Mary Magdalene had a child. This child was whisked away to France after Jesus’ crucifixion.

Dan Brown said that he wrote the best seller that dissects the origins of Jesus Christ. His book included disputes of long-held beliefs about Catholicism. He considered including material alleging that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion. Probably, whatever be the reason the author knew how to market his book.

Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses

Muslims believe that the Prophet Muhammed was visited by the angel Gibreel who over a 22 year period recited God’s words to him. In turn, Muhammed repeated the words to his followers. These words were eventually written down and became the verses and chapters of the Quran.

Rushdie chooses a provocative name for Muhammed. The novel’s version of the Prophet is called Mahound. This was an alternative name for Muhammed sometimes used during the Middle Ages by Christians who considered him a devil. In addition, Rushdie’s Mahound puts his own words into the angel Gibreel’s mouth. He delivers edicts to his followers that conveniently bolster his self-serving purposes. In the book, Salman the Persian rejects the authenticity of his master’s recitations, he records them as if they were God’s.

Through Mahound, Rushdie appears to cast doubt on the divine nature of the Quran.

Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita

The germ of Lolita was created in 1939, a short story, in Russian, about a man who marries a woman to get to her daughter. It was not well received, but the idea never left him. A decade later, Nabokov took up the story again in America. And again, some of his friends were horrified.

The book was rejected by five American publishers, who feared they’d be prosecuted on obscenity charges. It was first published in France by Olympia Press, which put out some serious books — and lots of pornography.

James Joyce’s Ulysses

Authors such as Joyce were transgressive and “sought to disturb social, sexual, and aesthetic complacencies” with their writing. Thus, plenty of controversies surrounded Joyce’s Ulysses before it was even printed in a single volume, making publication difficult to achieve, with publishers baulking at the work’s “obscene” content and reputation.

In Thomas Staley’s words, “No novel written in this century has evoked more critical controversy or sparked such elaborate exegesis”

Controversies are both beneficial and harmful to an artist’s life. It depends on how you tackle the situation and take it to your stride. What is the last controversial book you have read?

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