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Since 2001, the American Library Association has posted the top ten most frequently challenged books per year on their website. [4] Using the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century, ALA has also noted banned and challenged classics. [5] The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges.
The Top 100 Banned/Challenged Books from 2000–2009, by ALA; Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010–2019, American Library Association, September 9, 2020. Top 10 Most Challenged Books Lists, by ALA; Interactive Website about Banned Books in America at the Wayback Machine (archived 2015-03-05), by Robert E. Kennedy Library, Cal Poly
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 ...
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 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 ...
Alex Gino, left, wrote George (Melissa's Story) — No. 1 on the Top 10 Most Challenged Books list for three years running. (Author photo: Blake C. Aarens)
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”.
"The Handmaid's Tale" and "1984" are both on the American Library Association's Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019 online list. "The Handmaid's Tale" was the seventh most ...