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Top 10 Banned Books of 2017

Have you wondered what books were banned/challenged the most in 2017? Here are the top 10!

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  • This book was banned/challenged in previous years due to its discussion of suicide, but rose to the top of the list following the Netflix series release.
    Book, 2007New York : Razorbill, 2007. — YA ASHER
  • This book is consistently challenged for acknowledging issues such as poverty, alcoholism, and sexuality. It is also challenged in school curriculum for profanity and sexual explicit situations.
    Book, 2007New York : Little, Brown, c2007. — YA ALEXIE
  • This popular graphic novel has been challenged and banned in schools because it includes LGBT characters and was considered “confusing.”
    Book, 2012New York : Graphix/Scholastic, 2012. — J TELGEMEIER GRAPHIC NOVEL COLL
  • This book has been challenged and banned because it includes sexual violence and was thought to “lead to terrorism” and “promote Islam.”
    Book, 2007New York : Riverhead Books, 2007. — HOSSEINI
  • This book, written for elementary school children, has been challenged and banned because it features a transgender child.
    Book, 2015New York : Scholastic Press, 2015. — J GINO
  • This book has been challenged because it addresses sex education and is believed to lead children to “want to have sex or ask questions about sex.”
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Triangle Square Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Seven Stories Press, [2015] — J 613.907 SILVERBERG
  • This classic on many school reading lists was in the news a lot in 2017 for challenges and bans due to violence and its use of the N-word.
    Book, 1999New York : HarperCollinsPublishers/Perennial, 1999. — CF LEE
  • One of the hottest books of 2017, with a movie release in 2018, was challenged and banned in schools because it was considered “pervasively vulgar” and because of drug use, profanity, and offensive language.
    Book, 2017New York, NY : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017] — YA THOMAS
  • This picture book is frequently challenged because it features a same-sex relationship.
    Book, 2015New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2015] — E RICHARDSON
  • Jazz is a transgender teen who helped write this autobiographical picture book that has been challenged because it discusses gender identity.
    Book, 2014New York, New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, [2014] — E HERTHEL