Banned books, what do you think about Catcher in the Rye?

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Brave New World you say
I did not read but u heard that it's very good book
When I was kid I every year go to special Summer Camp (it was very cool summer camp because was sponsored by our Polish Ministery of Health and therefore was free
it's was designed for kids with ADHD, Asperger, neurosis or drug problem
There ware very cool teacher everybody love him because he was very good man
He once give me polish edition of Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
It was very special Edition you could call it bootloged edition because it was printed in 80s without knowledge and permission of comunist authorities on underground Solidarity trade union publishing house on printing press bought from money from CIA

This camp teacher was involved in highly illegal activity underground ring of selling books banned by communist censorship

And from what i know Kafka was banned too

WTH was Kafka banned for? I don't get it.

I've read Fahrenheit 451 is still banned in certain areas of the world. Can anyone explain why?

With Fahrenheit 451, I'd imagine it's just a matter of criticizing censorship in itself, and that's a no-no for authoritarian states that practice it.
As for Kafka, I can only think it has to do in part to his book, The Trial, which ridicules senseless, unjustified prosecutions. That, and just how weird Kafka generally is, in the same way that the John Birch Society had monitored The Twilight Zone, assuming anything that weird has to be communistic.

LOL
But even during communism ware who challenged the reality like my camp counselor
who risking their career just to provide books that was banned by government

What I'm referring to was an incident during America's Second Red Scare, when people on the right - such as private citizens like the John Birch Society, and official arms of the US government such as the FBI, and the House Committee On UnAmerican Activities - persecuted the small, powerless American communist party, as well as people wrongly thought to be part of them. A lot of people's lives were ruined because of that.

Such thing like Red Scare or Stalinism, should not happen at all, the difference is that during McCarthyism the American who disagree with their government. They could count at most on the political death if they were politically active, while in the former Eastern Bloc, ordinary people, not just politically engaged were threatened with a real death, not only the political one
From what I know that after Stalin's death in 1953, and Thaw repression eased

Well, I guess my husband and I are "banned-book readers" as between the two of us, we have read Brave New World, The Grapes of Wrath, Slaughterhouse-Five, The Satanic Verses, The Metamorphosis, Lolita, and Catcher in the Rye. Many of those, we have both read. I can see why some people might want to prevent other people from reading some of these books, because they don't want the ideologies in them to be spread. While I am generally against censorship, many of these books are not fit for teenagers, IMO. I did read Brave New World and Lolita in literature classes in college. That was OK. I also read Richard Wright's Native Son in one of those classes. I'm surprised that book has not also made this list.

I can't stand Catcher in The Rye. I can't make myself read it, which is a bit of a problem because I need to write possibly two or more essays on it and do a seminar.