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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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3.8 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2019, 2017, 2014, 2012, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006
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At New York City's Central Park Zoo, two male penguins fall in love and start a family by taking turns sitting on an abandoned egg until it hatches.
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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3.7 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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A vicious fifteen-year-old droog is the central character of this 1963 classic. In Anthony Burgess's nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, who talks in a brutal invented slang that brilliantly renders his and his friends' social pathology. A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil, and the meaning of human freedom. And when the state undertakes
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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.
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2.5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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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"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, who died in the attacks on the World Trade Center." --provided by publisher.
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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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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.
16. The kite runner
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4.6 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2017, 2014, 2012, 2008
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Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son, in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
An epic tale of fathers and sons, of friendship and betrayal, that takes us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the atrocities of the present day. The unforgettable, heartbreaking story of the unlikely friendship between a wealthy Afghan youth and the...
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3.8 stars
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"Mike Muñoz is a young Mexican American not too many years out of high school--and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew. Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can't seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it."--
18. Lolita
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4.5 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2010-2019
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A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him
The most controversial classic novel of the 20th century, Lolita tells the story of Humbert Humbert, a middle-aged man who is aroused to erotic desire only by a young girl. Awe and exhilaration--along with heartbreak and mordant wit--abound in Lolita, Nabokov's most famous and controversial novel, which...
19. Of Mice and Men
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4.4 stars
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TOP 10 MOST CHALLENGED BOOKS LIST 2020, 2004, 2003, 2001
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression
"A thriller, a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick." —The New York Times
John Steinbeck's classic novella follows an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet together they have formed a family,...
"A thriller, a gripping tale . . . that you will not set down until it is finished. Steinbeck has touched the quick." —The New York Times
John Steinbeck's classic novella follows an unlikely pair: George is "small and quick and dark of face"; Lennie, a man of tremendous size, has the mind of a young child. Yet together they have formed a family,...
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4.1 stars
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TOP 100 MOST BANNED AND CHALLENGED BOOKS: 2000-2019
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A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O'Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam...