Most-Challenged Books Have a Common Theme – By Newser Editors (Newser) / April 24, 2023
Most on American Library Association list were written by LGBTQ authors
The American Library Association logged a record 1,269 demands to ban books in 2022, nearly double the number from the previous year. In its list of the 10 books targeted the most (the list comes to 13 because of ties), most have LGBTQ themes and were deemed too sexually explicit by critics. As the Wall Street Journal notes, most of the books were written by LGBTQ authors and people of color. The list includes Toni Morrison’s first novel, The Bluest Eye. Here are the ALA’s 13 most-challenged books:
Gender Queer, by Maia Kobabe
All Boys Aren’t Blue, by George M. Johnson
The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison
Flamer, by Mike Curato
(tie) Looking for Alaska, by John Green
(tie) The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
Lawn Boy, by Jonathan Evison
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Out of Darkness, by Ashley Hope Pérez
(tie) A Court of Mist and Fury, by Sarah J. Maas
(tie) Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
(tie) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, by Jesse Andrews
(tie) This Book is Gay, by Juno Dawson
See the ALA site for more details on the books. (Read more banned books stories.)
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