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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.
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.
Since 1990, the Office of Intellectual Freedom has maintained a list of books that have been banned or censored in the United States. [137] This is an incomplete list of books, both fiction and non-fiction, that have been challenged or censored in the United States.
The preliminary data was released at the start of Banned Books Week, an annual campaign by the ALA that raises awareness about censorship. ... In some instances, the ALA said books have also been ...
Tens of thousands of books have been banned or restricted in U.S. prisons, according to a report by PEN America, a free speech organization that has been tracking book bans in the country. On ...
The effort to ban books has picked up over the past couple of years, but your book has been challenged since at least 2016. What’s changed since then? There were reasons why my book wasn’t ...
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has been banned by several European governments. [1] [2] [3] This is an index of lists of banned books, which contain books that have been banned or censored by religious authority or government.
Both books have been banned or challenged in some Florida public schools. But high school senior Iris Mogul, 17, and others, are defying the darkness of banning books.