It is always good to see that some old favorites will reach a new list, right?
Toni Morrison’s 1970 classic The most blue eye, Stephen Chbosky’s 1999 already The perks of Being a Wallflower and John Green’s book 2005 Looking for Alaska Once again it has been named among the most Library books challenged in the United States in 2024.
The American Library Association (wing) launched her Annual list of more challenged books On Monday, which includes new data that reveals that most attempts for censorship at school and public libraries in the US. UU. They come from organized movements instead of parents.
Almost three quarters, or 72 percent, of the demands to censor the books in school and public libraries come from “well -financed” and “organized” defense groups and government entities that include elected officials, board members and administrators, says the Wing Report.
These are groups that “have long dedicated themselves to curb access to information and ideas,” adds the wing.
Only 16 percent of the demands to censor the books came from individual parents.
“The movement to ban books is not a movement of parents, but a movement of supporters who seek to limit our freedom to read and make different decisions about the things that matter,” said Deborah Caldwell-Stone, director of the Ala press release.
Many of the challenges, for example, date back to the group of conservative activists “Moms for Liberty”, and websites like NaDedbooks, said Caldwell-Stone to Associated press.
The 10 most challenged books of 2024
Last year, 2,452 unique titles are challenged, they pointed out the wing. That is the third highest ever documented by the group, which also explained that the numbers are probably even higher due to the lack of reports, censorship due to exclusions and legislative restrictions.
Many of last year’s most challenged books included characters or topics 2SLGBTQ+, said the wing. They also covered issues of race, racism, equity and social justice.
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All boys are not blueBy George M. Johnson (2020) – A young adult (already) memories/manifest on the triumphs and triumphs of Queer Negros children.
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Queer genreBy Maia Kobabe (2019) -A graphic novel about leaving as not binary and asexual.
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(Tie) The most blue eyeBy Toni Morrison (1970) -A adult fiction about an 11-year-old black girl who says so that her eyes become blue.
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(Tied with the above) The perks of Being a WallflowerBy Stephen Chbosky (1999) -A novel of the age of a age of an introverted student of high school.
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WilesBy Ellen Hopkins (2009) – A novel already in verses about five adolescents with problems.
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(Tie) Looking for AlaskaBy John Green (2005) -A book of already on a junior of high school that seeks answers about life and death after a fatal car accident.
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(Tied with the above) Me and Earl and the dying girl, By Jesse Andrews (2012) – A fiction already on a teenager forced to revive a child friendship with a girl who dies of cancer.
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(Tie) CrankBy Ellen Hopkins (2004) – A fiction already about the turbulent relationship between a teenager and a glass methamphetamine.
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(Tied with the above) SoldBy Patricia McCormick (2006) – A fiction already on a Nepal teenager sold to sexual slavery in India.
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FlamerBy Mike Curato (2020) -A graphic novel on a child’s trip to self-discovery and acceptance.
Book challenges about the increase in Canada
Experts have noticed that book prohibitions are Also in a rise here in Canada. CBC reported last year That, according to Canadian librarians, recent challenges mainly imply opposition to books that deal with sexuality, 2SLGBTQ+ themes or gender diversity.
At the same time, 2SLGBTQ+ fiction sales in Canada It increased 34 percent in the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the new data published by industry analysts in Canada Booknet. The loans of the 2SLGBTQ+ titles library also increased during this time.
He Challenge databases of the Canadian LibraryAn initiative of the Free Expression downtown of the Metropolitan University of Toronto, lists 119 titles that were challenged in 2024 and another 30 until now in 2025 (the numbers could be higher, but the database is limited by self -report). The majority of the complaints of the books were considered “age inappropriate”, “content” content or were “Pro-LGBTQTTQTTQTQST.
In recent blog post, The Free Expression Center explained that in 2024, most of the complaints were presented by members of the public, most of the challenges occurred in Ontario, the main reason was “inappropriate of age”, the most requested action was to eliminate the book and the superior action taken by the library, “after a careful review of the element, is to retain the element.”
According to the database, All boys are not blue It was challenged in 2022 and 2023, both times in BC Queer genre He was challenged six times between 2021 and 2023 in several provinces. The most blue eye He was challenged once in 2023 in a public library in Creston, BC
Me and Earl and the dying girl It was challenged in 2023 and Crank It was challenged in 2006.
Some of the books challenged so far this year include The perks of Being a Wallflower, Sold and Looking for Alaska, as well as some Canadian content such as Margaret Atwood’s The history of the siren (for “violence”) and Fall on knees by Ann-Marie Macdonald, for being “anti-Christian.”
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