5 Thoughts on the Most Banned Books of the Decade

ALA has released the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books of the Decade (2010-2019).

Here are a few things that jumped out to me.

There’s a little of everything . . .

Take a look at the top ten – you’ve got middle grade, YA, adult, graphic novel, picture book. I would give this list credit for how balanced it is . . . but that’s sort of weird considering that it’s for challenged books.

. . . but nonfiction is hard to find.

The one type of book that doesn’t turn up on this list much is nonfiction.

Language and sex are most challenged.

Books that have been challenged due to language and sexual content (including books about sexual identity) make up a large part of the list.

Classics are still getting challenged?

Folks are still fighting the fight against Of Mice and Men, 1984, A Clockwork Orange, and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD??? Wow.

The bigger they are, the more they’re challenged.

Hunger Games, Captain Underpants, Fifty Shades of Gray – you’ll find some of the most popular books and series of the last decade on this list.

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