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1. 1984
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4.1 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.
Written 75 years ago, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever... "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."...
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5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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"Kitty has almost everything a cat could want, everything... except for a phone! To get a device of such magic and beauty, Kitty must do extra chores around the house for three whole months without complaining. Desperate times call for desperate measures, after all! Is Kitty up for such a Herculean task?"--Publisher description.
3. Beloved
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4.1 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 1990-2019
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
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3.8 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2022; TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2021, 2020, 2014, 2013, 2006
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It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2011, 2010
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Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom.
First published 70 years ago, the classic, prophetic novel capturing the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia remarkably explores the now-timely themes of cloning, individual creativity and freedom, and the role of science, technology, and drugs in humankind's future.
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3.9 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2009, 2005, 2001
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In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City
Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school.
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4.1 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2009, 2007
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The lives of two sisters--Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a Southern woman married to a man she hates--are revealed in a series of letters exchanged over thirty years.
"Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence"--Back cover.
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Court of thorns and roses volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022.
BOOK 1 IN SERIES IS A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
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Though Feyre now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, but as she navigates the feared Night Court's dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it.
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4 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2015
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Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
10. Drama
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4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2014
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Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
11. Eleanor & Park
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4.3 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2016
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"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--
12. Ender's game
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Ender Wiggin volume 1.
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4.6 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Child hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
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3.4 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Oskar Schell, the nine-year-old son of a man killed in the World Trade Center attacks, searches the five boroughs of New York City for a lock that fits a black key his father left behind.
"Oskar Schell is an inventor, Francophile, tambourine player, Shakespearean actor, jeweler, pacifist. He is nine years old. And he is on an urgent, secret search through the five boroughs of New York to find the lock that fits a mysterious key belonging to his father,...
14. Feed
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4 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
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Fifty shades trilogy volume 1.
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3.9 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2015, 2013, 2012
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When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic, and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind, until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time.
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4.5 stars
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TOP 13 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2022; TOP 10 2021
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"Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal...
17. The giver
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Giver quartet volume 1.
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4.2 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 1990-2019
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Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian...
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4.2 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2012
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The child of an alcoholic father and an eccentric artist mother discusses her family's nomadic upbringing, during which she and her siblings fended for themselves while their parents outmaneuvered bill collectors and the authorities.
In the tradition of Mary Karr's "The Liars' Club" and Rick Bragg's "All Over But the Shouting," Jeannette Walls has written a stunning and life-affirming memoir about surviving a willfully impoverished, eccentric and...
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Handmaid's tale volume 1.
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4.1 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019
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"This visionary novel. in which God and Government are joined, and America is run as a Puritanical Theoracy, can be read as a companion volume to Orwell's 1984-its verso, in fact. It gives you the same degree of chill, even as it suggests the varieties of tyrannical experience; it evokes the same kind of horror even as its mordant wit makes you smile." E.L.Doctorow.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 1.
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4.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS OF 2019, 2003, 2002, 2001
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Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Wizards and Witches.