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11 months ago

Banned Books Week 2024

A graphic with ten book covers tiled across it, entitled "Banned Book Week 2024." The books are: Sold by Patricia McCormick; The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison; The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky; This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson; Tricks by Ellen Hopkins; Let's Talk About It by Erika Moon and Matthew Norton; All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson; Flamer by Mike Curato; Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe; and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews.

Banned Books Week starts today, September 22nd, and runs through September 28th. With the current political climate in the US and beyond, it's a sad truth that the books most often challenged and banned in the US are queer stories, and so we wanted to take this week to shout out these books. Seven of the ten have been challenged because of LGBTQIA+ content.

The ten most challenged books of 2023 are:

Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson

This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson

The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Flamer by Mike Curato

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Tricks by Ellen Hopkins

Let's Talk About It by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan

Sold by Patricia McCormick

I've personally only read 2 - Gender Queer and Flamer - and both were excellent. I definitely need to get on reading more though.

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