top ten banned and challenged books - 2023
Banned books 2023 presensts this year’s top ten banned books and challenged books. We also offer for your reading and viewing pleasure the number one top banned book and the top one hundred banned books and challenged books up to 2019.
by Maia Kobabe
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write…
by Mike Curato
Grade 8 Up—As Boy Scout camp draws to a close and high school looms, 14-year-old Aiden Navarro, who is biracial (white and Filipino), is on high alert…
by Ellen Hopkins
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love …
by Margaret Atwood
In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War…
by Patricia McCormick
The powerful, poignant, bestselling National Book Award Finalist gives voice to a young girl robbed of her childhood yet determined to find the strength to triumph…
by Sapphire
A sensation ever since it was first published in 1996, Push has become an instant classic and perennial bestseller that inspired the Academy Award-winning 2009 film Precious.
by Toni Morrison
The author’s novel from 1970, The Bluest Eye, deals with a variety of difficult topics including racism, rape, incest, infant mortality, and much more…
by Juno Dawson
Queer. Intersex. Straight. Curious. This book is for everyone, regardless of gender or sexual preference. This book is for anyone who’s ever dared to wonder…
by Rupi Kaur
Milk and Honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them because there is sweetness everywhere if you are just willing to look.
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