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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).
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]
The number of books being challenged in libraries across the country has skyrocketed. A report Monday by the America Library Association revealed more than 900 attempts were made last year to ...
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 ...
Book challenges in school and public libraries have reached a record high in 2023, according to preliminary data released by the American Library Association (ALA). In the first eight months of ...
If the challenge is supported by the reconsideration process, the book will be removed from the library collection, school, etc. [30] A “banned book” is one that has been "removed from a library, classroom, etc." [27] Since 2021, the rise in book challenges nationwide has had a "chilling effect," leading to increased self-censorship (Knox ...
Public school book ban attempts spiked by 33 per cent within the last school year compared to the previous year, according to free speech advocacy group PEN America.
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 ...