Top ten most frequently challenged books of 2010
Out of 348 challenges as reported by the Office for Intellectual Freedom
- And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
Reasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language, racism, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence - Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, and sexually explicit - Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
Reasons: drugs, offensive language, and sexually explicit - The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and violence - Lush, by Natasha Friend
Reasons: drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group - What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: sexism, sexually explicit, and unsuited to age group - Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, and religious viewpoint - Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie
Reasons: homosexuality and sexually explicit - Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer
Reasons: religious viewpoint and violence
I'm totally getting used to the idea of doing serious analysis research on controversial books (that somehow are still not ANYTHING near classical canon reads that can turn anybody into sand) but I refuse to give this any more importance than a "BTW".
I won't get into why they are banned and why I believe, as we all do, that's stupid and totally last century.
I won't get into why they are banned and why I believe, as we all do, that's stupid and totally last century.
So, dear ALA, great to know.
Whatevers.
Thanks.
Whatevers.
Thanks.
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