Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group, and violence.

Nasreen’s Secret School: A True Story from Afghanistan, by Jeanette Winter.

Reasons: Nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group. Reasons: Violence and other (“graphic images”). Reasons: Offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“profanity and atheism”).

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon.

Reasons: Anti-family, offensive language, homosexuality, sex education, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“wants to remove from collection to ward off complaints”).

Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out, by Susan Kuklin.

Reasons: Inaccurate, homosexuality, sex education, religious viewpoint, and unsuited for age group.

I Am Jazz, by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings.Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, and other (“poorly written,” “concerns that a group of teenagers will want to try it”). Reasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group. “It seems like that shift is very clear.” But there’s been a shift toward seeking to ban books “focused on issues of diversity-things that are by or about people of color, or LGBT, or disabilities, or religious and cultural minorities,” LaRue says. Some books are still challenged for those reasons- Fifty Shades of Grey is a common example. “‘Don’t like the language,’ or ‘There’s too much sex’-they’d tend to fall into those two categories,” he says.

When the American Library Association started keeping a database of challenged books in the early ’90s, the reasons cited were fairly straightforward, according to James LaRue, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom. 25, it’s clear that public discomfort with particular ideas has evolved rapidly even in the last 20 years. But the reasons for challenging literature change over time, and as Banned Book Week begins on Sept. For as long as humans have printed books, censors have argued over their content and tried to limit some books’ distribution.

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