Because many book challenges are not reported to the ALA or covered by the press, the Top Most Challenged Books lists and 2022 data compiled by ALA represent only a snapshot of book challenges. A challenge to a book may be resolved in favor of retaining the book in the collection, or it...
This week, ALA released the 13 most challenged books in 2022, the increased number of slots owing to the fact that some books tied for number of complaints. Many targeted titles are by or about people of color, such as Toni Morrison’sThe Bluest Eyeand Ashley Hope Perez'sOut of ...
by george m. johnson and “ the bluest eye ” by nobel prize–winning novelist toni morrison. these are the 10 states with the most books banned or challenged at local levels, as measured by the american library association. next: 10. connecticut 2 / 13 credit getty images | istockphoto...
With so much heated rhetoric being lobbed around, it can be easy to forget that these are real books that are being banned and challenged. Books that many of us have never read. So, just what arethe books that are causing such a furor? Here are the most banned and challenged books so...
The Dead Zonewas ranked 82nd most challenged book (during the period of 1990-1999) in ALA’s banned books list. The novel is about a man named Johnny Smith who falls into a coma for upwards of five years; when he regains consciousness, he has suffered brain damage and gains clairvoyant...
10.Beyond Magenta,by Susan Kuklin — Banned and challenged for LGBTQIA+ content and because it was considered to be sexually explicit. The ALA collects data through media accounts and through cases it learns about from librarians and educators and other community members. Books preemptively pulled ...
Each year during Banned Books Week, the American Library Association tells us which titles available in public US libraries and schools received the most complaints or challenges during the previous year. In 2010, it seems, it was modern bestsellers - rather than classics from earlier decades - ...
Banned in:Australia, Finland, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Australia, the UK, Italy, Canada; still banned in Iran and Singapore. Where to stream:Nowhere currently, but the movie is now part of the prestigious Criterion Collection, soyou can be disgusted by it in high definition. ...
The books in question are "Gender Queer," a memoir by Maia Kobabe; and "A Court of Mist and Fury," a fantasy novel by Sarah J. Maas. "Gender Queer" was named the No. 1 challenged and censored book of 2021 by the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual...
Many among the top 50 banned books deal with issues of sexual orientation and gender identity, including this one, which was part of book bans six times in the 2021-2022 school year alone. 38. "Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen," by Jazz Jennings ...