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Florida and Texas, by far, challenged the most books in 2023 with a combined total of more than 4,000 titles. A full map of what U.S. states are challenging books can be found online at the ALA's ...
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 book is number 35 on the American Library Association's list of frequently challenged or banned books from 2000-2009. [1] Georgia's frequently disrespectful attitude towards her parents and other authority figures have contributed to the challenges, as well as sexual content, profanity, age inappropriateness and the references to homosexuality.
Famous books once banned include "Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland" (1865), Ulysses (1922), Nineteen Eighty-four (1949), "To Kill a Mockingbird" (1960) and even the Harry Potter series (1997-2007).
In the 1980s, it "had the unusual distinction of being the nation's most frequently censored book, and, at the same time, the second most frequently taught novel in the public schools." [91] The American Library Association deemed it the most censored book from 1966 to 1975 and the tenth most challenged book from 1990 to 1999.
The most commonly banned books in America include children’s books, te en books, and titles written for adults that address topics like race, mental health, LGBTQ issues, politics, and/or ...
Banned Books Week, an annual awareness campaign that draws attention to banned and challenged books [56] Freedom to Read Foundation, a non-profit anti-censorship organization that has been active in First Amendment-based challenges to book removals from libraries [57] Moon Palace Books, a Minneapolis local bookstore partnering with Iowa anti ...
Author Jesse Andrews, whose 2012 novel “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” became the 10th-most-banned book in America last year, questions the real harm of exposing young people to books.