To kick off National Library Week and the inaugural Right to Read Day, the American Library Association unveiled its highly anticipated list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2022. Because multiple books received the same number of challenges, the list was expanded to include 13 titles.
The Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022 are:
1. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
2. All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
3. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
4. Flamer by Mike Curato
5. (TIE) Looking for Alaska by John Green
5. (TIE) The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
7. Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
9. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
10. (TIE) A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
10. (TIE) Crank by Ellen Hopkins
10. (TIE) Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
10. (TIE) This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson
From the ALA post