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Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023

Every year, the American Library Association compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Frequently Challenged Books based on reports from the field and media coverage.

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  • Number of challenges: 106 Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit
    Graphic Novel, 2019St. Louis, MO : Lion Forge, 2019. — YA B KOBABE
  • Number of challenges: 82 Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit
    Book, 2020New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2020. — YA B JOHNSON
  • Number of challenges: 71 Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, sex education, claimed to be sexually explicit
    Book, 2021Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Fire, [2021] — YA 306.76 DAW
  • Number of challenges: 68 Challenged for: claimed to be sexually explicit, LGBTQIA+ content, rape, drugs, profanity
    Book, 1999New York : MTV/Pocket Books, c1999. — YA F CHBOSKY
  • Number of challenges: 67 Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit
    Graphic Novel, 2020New York, NY : Henry Holt and Company, 2020. — YA F CURATO
  • Number of challenges: 62 Challenged for: rape, incest, claimed to be sexually explicit, EDI content
    Book, 1993New York : Plume, [1993], c1970. — F MORRISON
  • Number of challenges: 56 Challenged for: claimed to be sexually explicit, drugs, rape, LGBTQIA+ content
    Book, 2009New York, NY : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2009. — YA F HOPKINS
  • Number of challenges: 56 Challenged for: claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity
    Book, 2015New York : Amulet Books, 2015. — YA F ANDREWS
  • Let's Talk About It

    the Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human

    Moen, Erika, 1983-
    Number of challenges: 55 Challenged for: claimed to be sexually explicit, sex education, LGBTQIA+ content
    Graphic Novel, 2021New York : RH Graphic, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — YA 306.7 MOE
  • Number of challenges: 53 Challenged for: claimed to be sexually explicit, rape
    Book, 2008New York : Hyperion Paperbacks, 2008, c2006. — YA F MCCORMICK