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Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read

Banned Books Week 2023

Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022

2022 #1 Most Challenged Book - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

2022 #1 Most Challenged Book - Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

2022 #2 Most Challenged Book - All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

2022 #2 Most Challenged Book - All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

2022 #3 Most Challenged Book - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

2022 #3 Most Challenged Book - The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

2022 #4 Most Challenged Book - Flamer by Mike Curato

2022 #4 Most Challenged Book - Flamer by Mike Curato

2022 #5 Most Challenged Book - Looking for Alaska by John Green

2022 #5 Most Challenged Book - Looking for Alaska by John Green

2022 #5 Most Challenged Book - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

2022 #5 Most Challenged Book - The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

2022 #7 Most Challenged Book - Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

2022 #7 Most Challenged Book - Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison

2022 #8 Most Challenged Book - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

2022 #8 Most Challenged Book - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

2022 #9 Most Challenged Book - Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez

2022 #9 Most Challenged Book - Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez

2022 #10 Most Challenged Book - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

2022 #10 Most Challenged Book - A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

2022 #10 Most Challenged Book - Crank by Ellen Hopkins

2022 #10 Most Challenged Book - Crank by Ellen Hopkins

2022 #10 Most Challenged Book - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

2022 #10 Most Challenged Book - Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

2022 #10 Most Challenged Book - This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

2022 #10 Most Challenged Book - This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

The American Library Association's Top 10 Most Challenged Books

Books have been challenged or banned through the ages for a variety of reasons including sexual content, religious content, and political content. See the American Library Association, list of the 10 most challenged Books each yearCelebrate your freedom to read - check out a banned or challenged book today!

What is Banned Books Week?

"Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types — in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular."-  from the American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom."

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