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Caution: The Books Are Banned!
In a country that prides itself on Freedom of expression, the recent movement to ban certain types of books in the United States has sparked concerns about the dangers of censorship. Efforts to ban books have persisted in American history, but those efforts are reaching unprecedented heights. In 2022, ALA documented 1,269 demands to censor library books and resources – the highest number of attempted book bans since ALA began compiling data about censorship in libraries more than 20 years ago. Ninety percent of the overall number of books challenged were part of attempts to censor multiple titles.
Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books: 2010-2019
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Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
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The Librarian of Basra by Jeanette Winter
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Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology by Amy Sonnie
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
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Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
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A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
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Saga by Brian K. Vaughan
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Jacob's New Dress by Sarah Hoffman
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Feed by M.T. Anderson
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64
Draw Me a Star by Eric Carle
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60
The Dirty Cowboy by Amy Timberlake
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Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily von Ziegesar
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52
The Holy Bible
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48
Lush by Natasha Friend
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44
A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl by Tanya Lee Stone
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40
Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
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36
A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer
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32
It's a Book by Lane Smith
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28
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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24
Scary Stories (series) by Alvin Schwartz
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20
Sex is a Funny Word by Cory Silverberg
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16
Bone (series) by Jeff Smith
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12
Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
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8
Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
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4
Looking for Alaska by John Green
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Uncle Bobby’s Wedding by Sarah S Brannen
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The Color of Earth (series) by Tong-hwa Kim
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Prince and Knight by Daniel Haack
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Heather Has Two Mommies by Lesle´a Newman
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Burned by Ellen Hopkins
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1984 by George Orwell
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Nasreen’s Secret School by Jeanette Winter
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71
House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
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67
The Family Book by Todd Parr
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63
Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
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59
Neonomicon by Alan Moore
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55
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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51
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
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47
In Our Mothers' House by Patricia Polacco
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43
This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki
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39
Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
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35
What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
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31
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel
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27
Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan Kuklin
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23
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
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19
A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss
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15
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
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Drama by Raina Telgemeier
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Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
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Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
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So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins
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My Princess Boy by Cheryl Kilodavis
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Glass by Ellen Hopkins
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Awakening by Kate Chopin
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The Kingdom of Little Wounds by Susann Cokal
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Monster by Walter Dean Myers
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Habibi by Craig Thompson
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Fade by Lisa McMann
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Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
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My Mom's Having A Baby by Dori Hillestad Butler
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54
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
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The Color Purple by Alice Walker
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Goosebumps (series) by R.L. Stine
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42
This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman
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Crank by Ellen Hopkins
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The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
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The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
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A Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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It's Perfectly Normal by Robie H. Harris
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Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
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The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
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And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell
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Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey
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The Walking Dead (series) by Robert Kirkman
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Skippyjon Jones (series) by Judith Schachner
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Madeline and the Gypsies by Ludwig Bemelmans
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Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
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Almost Perfect by Brian Katcher
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Stuck in the Middle by Ariel Schrag
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
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Go the Fuck to Sleep by Adam Mansbach
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Dreaming In Cuban by Cristina Garcia
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
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House of Night (series) by P.C. Cast
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This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
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The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
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Beloved by Toni Morrison
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The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby by Dav Pilkey
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Bad Kitty (series) by Nick Bruel
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
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The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
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Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
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Alice McKinley (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
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The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
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I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel
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Internet Girls (series) by Lauren Myracle
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George by Alex Gino
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
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