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The ALA does not claim comprehensiveness in recording challenges. Research suggests that for each challenge reported there are as many as four or five which go unreported. [6] The list is sorted alphabetically by default. Included is each book's rank in the ALA's lists of top 100 challenged books by decade (if applicable).
The breakdown of challenges, in which access to each book could be restricted or revoked at a school or public library, is as follows: Colorado (12 challenges issued; 142 books targeted)
This is the highest number of removals and challenges of books that the ALA has recorded in a single year since the organization began tracking book censorship more than 20 years ago. [10] In the first eight months of 2022, the ALA received 681 reports of book challenges targeting 1,651 unique books. [11]
Calls for restricting book access increased in the U.S. by 92% from 2022 to 2023, accounting for nearly half of all book challenges last year. Similar demands at American school libraries also ...
That Used to be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back is a nonfiction book written by Thomas Friedman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist and author, with Michael Mandelbaum, a writer and foreign policy professor at Johns Hopkins University. They published the book on September 5, 2011, in ...
Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America is a non-fiction book written by Eliza Griswold and published in 2018. It examines the social, environmental, and economic impact of the natural gas fracking industry on a small town in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Great Alone spent four weeks at number one on The New York Times Fiction Best Seller list in 2018, [4] and two weeks at number one on the Los Angeles Times hardcover fiction bestsellers list. [5] It was 17th on USA Today's 2018 year-end top 100 best-selling books list. [6] The novel won Best Historical Fiction at the 2018 Goodreads Choice ...
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