Yes, neither set of books that either side seeks to ban are necessary or, perhaps, even good for an education in the humanities. Notice they are always relative

Yes, neither set of books that either side seeks to ban are necessary or, perhaps, even good for an education in the humanities. Notice they are always relatively recent, usually pop fiction (as opposed to nonfiction) that teachers/librarians enjoyed that's supposed to "teach" you something about an actual historical event. You're supposed to read the fictionalized novel because it's more "relatable", definitely not because it ensures you see things through the preferred ideological lens of 21st century school librarians. (To be fair, the "other" side's banned books are usually what these people liked a generation earlier; although there are truly banned books, that, for example, cannot be sold on Amazon, and they are usually, but by no means always, more obviously offensive and of more questionable worth.) What you will not find on banned book lists, with few exceptions, is the books that were used to teach the humanities for hundreds, sometimes even thousands of years, up through the first half of the 20th century. Increasingly, you won't find them in the library, either. They haven't been "banned", though. They're just being "curated" out of collections and pulped. We had to update our library, you see. Human experience is different now, you need to read our modern and ideologically fashionable authors. That's why you have to scroll down to page 14/16 on that list before you find a book published before the year 2000. Of course, the perception (and maybe truth) is that the reaction against the currently fashionable propaganda literature in school libraries and reading lists is led by illiterates, not by people who think you should be reading Thucydides.