📕 In this episode of the Learn English Podcast, you’ll explore a powerful list of banned books that can help you improve your English through reading. These stories were removed, challenged, or restricted for political, religious, and social reasons, but today they are considered important cultural and literary works.

You’ll learn why each book was banned, what it is about, and how it can strengthen your reading comprehension, vocabulary, and overall English fluency. From easier, more accessible books to more advanced, thought-provoking novels, this episode is designed to help B2 English learners grow through meaningful, real-world input and cultural understanding.

A complete vocabulary list from this episode is included so you can study the words and phrases at your own pace and begin using them in real conversations.

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📝 Vocabulary list:

1) Banned Book Week - A week-long event in the United States that celebrates books that have been banned or prevented from being in libraries.

2) Controversial - Causing disagreement or debate.

3) Rebellious - showing a desire to resist authority or control

4) Bittersweet - a mixture of sadness and happiness.

5) Utopia - an imagined place or state where everything is perfect.

6) Satire - a literary work that uses humor or irony to criticize something.

7) Explicit - often refers to content that is not suitable for younger audiences.

8) Colloquial - (of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal

9) Disillusioned - disappointed because something is not as good as one believed it to be.

10) Censorship -the practice of controlling what people can read or see