This was interesting after one of the threads before…
Great Reading List! Top 10 Banned Books
Officially, it’s called a “challenge.” But when a book is “challenged,” it can mean that the book in question is banned–removed from the shelves, censored, forbidden to be read, and sometimes burned. The American Library Association has assembled a list of this year’s top 10 banned books with this slogan: Let Freedom Read! Read a Banned Book.
The top 10 banned books and why they were “challenged”:
1. “Harry Potter” series, by J.K. Rowling, for its focus on wizardry and magic.
2. “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck, for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
3. “The Chocolate War” by Robert Cormier (the “Most Challenged” fiction book of 1998), for using offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
4. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou, for sexual content, racism, offensive language, violence, and being unsuited to age group.
5. “Summer of My German Soldier” by Bette Greene for racism, offensive language, and being sexually explicit.
6. “The Catcher In the Rye” by J.D. Salinger for offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
7. “Alice” series by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, for being sexually explicit, using offensive language, and being unsuited to age group.
8. “Go Ask Alice” by Anonymous for being sexually explicit, for offensive language, and drug use.
9. “Fallen Angels” by Walter Dean Myers, for offensive language and being unsuited to age group.
10. “Blood and Chocolate” by Annette Curtis Klause for being sexually explicit and unsuited to age group.