LibGuides: Most-Challenged Books: 2022

Most-Challenged Books of 2022

Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
ISBN: 9781549304002
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
ISBN: 0374312710

Number of challenges: 86
Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content; claimed to be sexually explicit
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
ISBN: 9780307278449

Number of challenges: 73
Challenged for depiction of sexual abuse; equity, diversity, and inclusion content; claimed to be sexually explicit
Flamer by Mike Curato (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781627796415

Number of challenges: 62
Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content; claimed to be sexually explicit
Looking for Alaska by John Green
ISBN: 9780525475064

Number of challenges: 55
Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content; claimed to be sexually explicit
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
ISBN: 0671027344

Number of challenges: 55
Challenges for depiction of sexual abuse; LGBTQIA+ content; drug use; profanity; claimed to be sexually explicit
Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
ISBN: 1616209232

Number of challenges: 54
Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content; claimed to be sexually explicit
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (National Book Award Winner) by Sherman Alexie
ISBN: 9780316013680

Number of challenges: 52
Challenges for profanity; claimed to be sexually explicit
Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
ISBN: 9781467742023

Number of challenges: 50
Challenged for depictions of abuse; claimed to be sexually explicit
Crank by Ellen Hopkins
ISBN: 0689865198

Number of challenges: 48
Challenged for drug use; claimed to be sexually explicit
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition) by Jesse Andrews
ISBN: 9781419719608

Number of challenges: 48
Challenged for profanity; claimed to be sexually explicit
This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson; David Levithan (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1728254329

Number of challenges: 48
Challenged for LGBTQIA+ content; providing sexual education; claimed to be sexually explicit