Support Intellectual Freedom Read a Targeted Book for Banned Book Week
Every September the American Library Association, through its Office of Intellectual Freedom focuses attention on books
that have been deemed “objectionable” by groups or individuals in communities across the nation. A list is maintained on
the censorship of books that can challenge the accepted view. Owing to the efforts of librarians, citizens,instructors, and students, the values of open access to information is maintained. The Freedom to read, as celebrated by Banned Book Week unites all that owes their creativity, livelihood, and learning to the expressed ideas contained in a book.
Here is just a few books that have been listed by the ALA as Banned:
Year Author Title Genre
2015 John Green Looking for Alaska Young Adult Fiction
2015 E. L. James Fifty Shades of Grey Erotic Romance
2015 Herthel, Jennings I Am Jazz Children’s Picture Book
2015 Susan Kuklin Beyond Magenta Young Adult
2015 Mark Haddon The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mystery
2015 The Holy Bible Religion, Literature
2015 Alison Bechdel Fun Home Graphic Novel, Memoir
2015 Craig Thompson Habibi Graphic Novel
2015 Jeanette Winter Nasreen’s Secret School Children’s Literature
2014 Sherman Alexie The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Young Adult
2014 Marjane Satrapi Persepolis Comics, Autobiographical
2014 Richardson,Parnell And Tango Makes Three Children’s, Young Adult
2014 Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye Afro-American Literature
2014 Robie Harris It’s Perfectly Normal Health, Family, Pregnancy, Children
2014 Vaughan, Staples Saga Graphic Novel
2014 Khaled Hosseini The Kite Runner Historical Drama
2014 Stephen Chbosky The Perks of Being a Wallflower Literature, Fiction
2014 Jaycee Dugard A Stolen Life Autobiography, Memoir
2014 Raina Telgemeier Drama Graphic Novel, Children’s
2013 Dav Pilkey Captain Underpants (series) Children’s Literature. Humor
2013 Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games (series) Science Fiction, Drama
2013 Tanya Lee Stone A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl Romance Novel, Poetry
2013 Rudolfo Anaya Bless Me Ultima Literature, Fiction,Hispanic
2013 Jeff Smith Bone (series) Comic Book
2012 Jay Asher Thirteen Reasons Why Young Adult, Fiction
2012 Alvin Schwartz Scary Stories (series) Children’s
2012 Jeanette Walls The Glass Castle Memoir
2012 Toni Morrison Beloved Literature, Fiction, Teens
2011 Lauren Myracle ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series) Literature, Fiction
2011 Kim Dong Hwa The Color of Earth (series) Graphic Novel, Historical Fiction, Manga
2011 Reynolds Naylor My Mom’s Having A Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Children’s, Growing Up, Health
2011 Aldous Huxley Brave New World Literature, Science Fiction, Utopian
2011 Sonya Sones What My Mother Doesn’t Know Young Adult, Fiction
2011 Cecily Von Ziegesar Gossip Girl (series) Literature, Fiction, Teens
Let’s all support our right to read and with it our intellectual freedom. Thank you ALA
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