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Contents. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States. Judy Blume is the author featured most frequently on this list (five times). Her young adult novels are typically about coming of age issues such as teenage sexuality. The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling was the most challenged work from 2000 to 2009.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) Lewis Carroll. Children's Novel/Adventure. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland was banned in the province of Hunan, China by the KMT 's government, beginning in 1931, due to its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals which act with the same level of complexity as human beings.
The New York Times reported in January 2022 that "parents, activists, school board officials and lawmakers around the country are challenging books at a pace not seen in decades". [7] In April 2022, nonprofit organization PEN America found that 1,586 book bans targeting 1,145 unique books had occurred in the past nine months. [ 8 ]
Here are 15 books PEN America says were most frequently banned in the first part of the 2022-23 school year. 1. “Gender Queer: A Memoir” by Maia Kobabe. This bestselling 2019 autobiography in ...
The Central York School District tops the list, having banned 441 books that almost entirely focused on titles related to people of color in a school board meeting on Nov. 9, 2020. The agenda ...
Right in the midst of Banned Books Week, which concluded on Saturday, a children's novel about a Chinese-immigrant experience entered the center of controversy in a small New York school district ...
In 2017, the book was ranked number 8 on the American Library Association’s top ten challenge and banned books list. The book was also banned by school officials in Katy, Texas. It was challenged for its “pervasive vulgarity and racially-insensitive language”.
April 8, 2022 at 2:13 PM. By Sharon Bernstein. (Reuters) - More than a thousand book titles, most addressing racism and LGBTQ issues, have been banned from U.S. classrooms and school libraries in ...