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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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Bone (Jeff Smith) volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2013
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The adventure starts when cousins Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville and later get separated and lost in the wilderness, meeting monsters and making friends as they attempt to return home.
Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of their home, Boneville, and become separated in the wilds, but better fortune begins when the three cousins reunite at a farmstead in a deep forested valley, where Fone meets a...
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Average Rating:
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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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.
5. The giver
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Giver quartet volume 1.
Average Rating:
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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Handmaid's tale volume 1.
Average Rating:
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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Hunger Games volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2013, 2011, 2010
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In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol...
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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"On the eve of Princess Sophia's wedding, a shiver of darkness creeps through the palace halls. A mysterious illness plagues the royal family, threatening the lives of the throne's heirs; a courtier's wolfish hunger for the king's favor sets a devious plot in motion; and the fates of a seamstress and a nursemaid become irrevocably tangled. Here in the Scandinavian city of Skyggehavn, things are seldom what they seem--and the single errant prick of...
9. Marked
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House of Night. Original series volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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Sixteen-year-old Zoey Redbird is Marked as a fledging vampyre and joins the House of Night where she will train to become an adult vampyre.