I found a list of banned or challenged books from the New York library. Alas, Babylon was on it, but I don't know when or why the list only had 23 books on it. It doesn't surprise me that it would be banned. It joins other notables like To Kill a Mockingbird, Slaughterhouse 5, A Raisin in the Sun, and even Harry Potter books. The thing is the banned books change by year and decades. I once set out to read the top 100 banned books but there were too many terrible books that were banned like lady Chatterley's Lover-- a horribly written book. Plus there are many lists, which list to choose? I have enough good books I want to read and now this one is on that list of books to read!