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Monday, September 25, 2017

TTT: My favorite banned/challenged books of the past five years

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and Bookish
Top Ten Tuesday: (I am going off the chart since it is Banned Books Week, September 24-30)

My favorite YA frequently banned/challenged books, 2012-2016 

  1. Looking for Alaska written by John Green
    Reasons: challenged for a sexually explicit scene that may lead a student to “sexual experimentation”
  2. Eleanor & Park written by Rainbow Rowell
    Reason: challenged for offensive language
  3. This One Summer written by Mariko Tamaki and illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
    Reasons: challenged because it includes LGBT characters, drug use and profanity, and it was considered sexually explicit with mature themes
  4. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon
    Reasons: offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“profanity and atheism”)
  5. The Holy Bible
    Reasons: religious viewpoint
  6. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
    Reasons: anti-family, cultural insensitivity, drugs/alcohol/smoking, gambling, offensive language, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, violence. Additional reasons: “depictions of bullying”
  7. The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini
    Reasons: offensive language, unsuited to age group, violence
  8. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky
    Reasons: drugs/alcohol/smoking, homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: “date rape and masturbation”
  9. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins
    Reasons: religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
  10. Bless Me Ultima, by Rudolfo Anaya
    Reasons: occult/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit
    What is your favorite banned/challenged book?
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