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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.
Book banning in the United States (2021–present) Starting in 2021, there have been a considerable number of books banned or challenged in parts of the United States. Most of the targeted books have to do with race, gender, and sexuality. Unlike most book challenges in the past, whereby parents or other stakeholders in the community would ...
The Rabbits' Wedding by Garth Williams. The Christian Science Monitor. “One of my favorite children’s banned books was published in April of 1958, long before challenged books became viral ...
Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, [ 1] draws attention to banned and challenged books, [ 2] and highlights persecuted individuals. Held in late September or early October since 1982, the United States campaign "stresses ...
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 ...
Each year in September, the American Library Association (ALA), which has an aim to stop censorship, calls attention to the issue with Banned Books Week (Sept. 26 - Oct. 2), celebrating the ...
Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship , from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives.
The American Library Association tracked 729 challenges to 1,597 books in 2021, setting a record for the most challenges tracked by ALA in a single year. ... having banned 441 books that almost ...