Banned Books List 2020 Usa

The practice of banning books is a form of censorship from political legal religious moral or less often commercial motives this article lists notable banned books and works giving a brief context for the reason that each book was.

Banned books list 2020 usa. 3 a vibrant week of programming to rally readers to the cause of first amendment protections and remind them to remain vigilant about continual threats to our. Read a banned book during banned books week. Data gathered by the american library association s office for intellectual freedom oif which gathers data from media reports and from reports from.

For resources and more on the events set for the 2020 banned books week visit the ala s website the full list of the top 100 most challenged books of the decades is also available online as well. Travel movies books food other. This list of the most commonly challenged books in the united states refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access typically from a library or a school curriculum.

How many of these banned books have you read. Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which are prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means. United states 11 29 20 13 489 50 best fiction by contemporary authors.

Please use this list for all books you are considering reading as well as books you would recommend for this prompt. Many books have been forbidden in america s public school systems at one time or another. Amnesty international usa banned books week 2020 book list 3 liu xiaobo china died in custody while serving 11 year sentence liu xiaobo is a world renowned writer and political activist who was awarded the nobel peace prize in 2010.

Sign in trending new popular type to search. This list is primarily based on u s. List created for the 2020 reading challenge in the ultimate popsugar reading challenge group.

Today the american library association s ala office for intellectual freedom oif released the top 100 most banned and challenged books from the past decade. 2 037 200 the most popular book series ever written. In honor of banned books week the american library association published lists of the top 10 most challenged books of 2019 and the top 100 of the decade.