Books by such acclaimed and award-winning authors as Jason Reynolds, John Green and Toni Morrison are also on the top ten lists of challenged books. In fact, OUT OF DARKNESS was a Printz Honor Book and SPEAK was a National Book Award Finalist. Banned books are well written.Īll the books I mentioned above are well written. But you should read them because they all have wonderful characters, are filled with heart, and offer us different perspectives. They were all banned for a variety of reasons, including featuring LGBTQ+ characters, referring to magic, and having depictions of abuse. But all of these books have been on the top ten banned book lists for many years. Rowling and the graphic novel DRAMA by Raina Telgemeier. I love OUT OF DARKNESS by Ashley Hope Pérez MELISSA (previously published as GEORGE) by Alex Gino SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson the HARRY POTTER books by J.K. Some of my favorite books are banned books. You might think, “Hey, with that many challenges, maybe there’s something in this whole banning books thing…” So, here’s my own top 10 list, with reasons why we SHOULD read banned books (or not try to ban them in the first place). In 2022, the total books challenged was more than 1,200! That’s more than four times the number of challenged books just 6 years before.
They have an annual list of the Top Ten Most Challenged Books from that year. The database is sourced from media reports as well as the Office’s own challenged books report form. With the number of challenged books getting larger, the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom created a database in 1990 on information about books that have been challenged.
Challenged books are ones that have received requests for removal from, for example, a school, library or bookstore. Banned Books Week was started in 1982 after the number of books being challenged in schools, bookstores and libraries swelled. First, a little history of book banning and why it even has its own special week.
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