{"id":4308,"date":"2011-09-28T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/locl\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:37:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:37:42","slug":"top-10-banned-books-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2011\/09\/28\/top-10-banned-books-of-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Banned Books of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBanned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read<\/a> is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual American Libraries Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. <\/p>\n

BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one\u2019s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.<\/p>\n

According to the American Library Association<\/a>, there were 348 challenges reported to the Office of Intellectual Freedom in 2010, and many more go unreported. <\/p>\n

The 10 most challenged titles of 2010 were:<\/strong><\/p>\n

And Tango Makes Three<\/strong>, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
\nReasons: homosexuality, religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
\nLewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor)
\nPZ10.3 .R414 Tan 2005<\/em><\/p>\n

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/strong>, by Sherman Alexie
\nReasons: offensive language, racism, religious viewpoint, sex education, sexually explicit, violence, unsuited to age group
\nLewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor)
\nPZ7 .A382 Ab 2007<\/em><\/p>\n

Brave New World<\/strong>, by Aldous Huxley
\nReasons: insensitivity, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit
\nCudahy Main Stacks
\nPR6015 .U9 B69 1946b<\/em><\/p>\n

Crank<\/strong>, by Ellen Hopkins
\nReasons: drugs, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit<\/p>\n

The Hunger Games (series), <\/strong>by Suzanne Collins
\nReasons: sexually explicit, violence, unsuited to age group
\nLewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor)
\nPZ7 .C6837 Hun 2008<\/em><\/p>\n

Lush<\/strong>, by Natasha Friend
\nReasons: drugs, sexually explicit, offensive language, unsuited to age group<\/p>\n

What My Mother Doesn’t Know<\/strong>, by Sonya Sones
\nReasons: sexism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group<\/p>\n

Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America<\/strong>, by Barbara Ehrenreich
\nReasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint
\nCudahy Main Stacks
\nHD4918 .E375 2002<\/em><\/p>\n

Revolutionary Voices<\/strong> edited by Amy Sonnie
\nReasons: homosexuality, sexually explicit<\/p>\n

Twilight (series), <\/strong>by Stephenie Meyer
\nReasons: sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence, unsuited to age group
\nLewis Curriculum Library (6th Floor)
\nPZ7 .M57188 Tw 2005<\/em>..<\/p>\n

(Source: American Library Association<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual American Libraries Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted. BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one\u2019s opinion even if that opinion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":4311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4316,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/4316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}