Infographic: Top 11 Most Challenged and Banned Books of 2018
Every year the American Library Association tracks which books busybodies don’t want you to read. In 2018, the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) recorded 347 challenges to library, school and university materials, and services.
These challenges affected 483 books (as well as many other materials) in 2018, with the following comprising the top 11 most frequently challenged:
- George by Alex Gino
Reason: for including a transgender character - A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill Twiss, illustrated by E. G. Keller
Reasons: for LGBTQIA+ content, political and religious viewpoints - Captain Underpants series, written and illustrated by Dav Pilkey
Reasons: for including a same-sex couple, perceived as encouraging disruptive behavior - The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Reasons: for profanity, drug use, sexual references, deemed “anti-cop” - Drama written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier
Reason: for LGBTQIA+ characters and themes - Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Reason: for addressing teen suicide - This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki, illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
Reasons: for profanity, sexual references, certain illustrations - Skippyjon Jones series, written and illustrated by Judy Schachner
Reason: for depicting cultural stereotypes - The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: for profanity, sexual references, religious viewpoint - This Day in June by Gayle E. Pitman, illustrated by Kristyna Litten
Reason: for LGBTQIA+ content - Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
Reason: for LGBTQIA+ content
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Comments
G.B. Miller April 10, 2019 um 5:56 am
I always take these ALA banned book lists with a grain of salt, as they have a tendency to lump everything together. Most of these books were probably not outright banned but possibly challenged and/or questioned. If one of those books were actually banned, I’m very certain that the ALA would be trumpeting that fact in the media. The fact that they didn’t tells me that they had a very slow year for "book banning", so they had to pump up their annual list