Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011.

And the winners (?) are:

1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle (offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group)

2. The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa (nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group)

3. The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins (anti-ethnic; anti-family; insensitivity; offensive language; occult/satanic; violence)

4. My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler (nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group)

5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie (offensive language; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group)

6. Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (nudity; offensive language; religious viewpoint)

7. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley (insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit)

8. What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones (nudity; offensive language; sexually explicit)

9. Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar (drugs; offensive language; sexually explicit)

10. To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee (offensive language; racism)

Can someone remind me, please, of the moment when Katniss starts to worship Satan? Because I clearly missed it.

And To Kill a Mockingbird. For racism. Holy cow.

This list is part of the ALA's 2012 State of America's Libraries report.

Via everywhere.

Comments

[MelissaW]

I almost snorted my coffee up my nose. KATNISS is an occultist, but not those looney-tunes in BRAVE NEW WORLD making a "T" sign on their stomachs and shouting "Orgy-porgy!"

Just more evidence that those who "object" to those books haven't actually READ those books.

[Jenn]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure if they had read the Hunger Games trilogy, they would have perhaps come to the realization that the books take a pretty firm stance against violence and war. Same thing with To Kill a Mockingbird and racism. Goodness . . .

[Beth]

The inclusion of To Kill a Mockingbird is the straw that broke the camel's back. Have they not read these books?

[CC]

Doesn't TKAM make this list yearly pretty much? Go Harper Lee!

(yeah, laughed at the line about Katniss, not so much anything else)

[Dan Kleinman]

We need to know how many times was The Hunger Games challenged. Last year the top book on the list was challenged a whopping four times all year. I think that has something to do with why the number of challenges is left out, except for the aggregate number. I suppose the good news is that books are rarely challenged.

[MotherReader]

You have to wonder about the people who receive the complaint about the racism in To Kill a Mockingbird. They must put their heads down on the desk and weep.