Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which is ironically a tale about banning books, was banned in several American states and schools around the world. The plot centres around fireman, Guy Montag, whose job is to burn books and the title refers to the temperature at which paper combusts. The work was published in 1953 during McCarthyism and was widely seen to be about censorship although Bradbury has refuted this.
