ALA's Top ten most frequently challenge books....

2011's Top Ten Most
Frequently Challenged Books

Last year, Lee Wind at I'm Here. I'm Queer. What the Hell do I read? has asked us to join him in reading the American Library Association's Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books for 2010. (see my post here.)

I had already read two books from the list and I'm happy to say that I finally read something else. Hunger Games.

Now, it's time to read something off 2011's list.....



1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

2. The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

3. The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
Reasons: anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence

4. My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Reasons: offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group

6. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint

7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit

8. What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Reasons: nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit

9. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
Reasons: drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit

10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reasons: offensive language; racism


#3: I own all three books and have recently read Hunger Games

#5: Purchased because it was on 2010's list, on my TBR list

#7 & #10: Own both, both on my TBR list for this year.

Have you read any of these? Planning on it?


Finally! I've read another and can consider this one complete. Doesn't mean I won't read another one, just that the pressure is off.

Read: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie

~Challenge Complete~

October 1

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