Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
A Washington Post analysis of 986 books challenged in school libraries between 2021 and 2022 found that nearly 42% of the books challenged had LGBTQ+ themes or characters and 28% had characters of ...
It's Banned Books Week, an annual effort by the American Library Association to raise awareness about censorship.. Each year, the ALA creates a top 10 list of the most challenged books filed by ...
The first book to be banned by the Irish Free State for alleged "indecency". Republished in 2013. [168] A Farewell to Arms: Ernest Hemingway: 1929 Novel Suppressed in the Irish Free State. [166] Marriage and Morals: Bertrand Russell: 1929 Non-fiction Suppressed in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education, birth control and open ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
In August 2022, a teacher in Oklahoma was put on administrative leave after posting the QR code for BPL's Books Unbanned in her classroom. [18] [19] The Oklahoma Secretary of Education called to have her teaching license revoked. [18] The teacher subsequently resigned and, several months later, accepted a job with the Brooklyn Public Library. [10]
Sept. 22-28 is Banned Books Week. See a list of the top 10 most challenged books, and which state had the most in 2023.
Banned Books Week is the product of a national alliance between organizations who strive to bring awareness to banned books. [118] Founded by first amendment and library activist Judy Krug and the Association of American Publishers in 1982, the event aims to bring banned books "to the attention of the American public".