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2012’s most challenged books

Each year during National Library Week, the American Library Association releases a State of America’s Libraries report. One of the highlights (or lowlights) is that it contains the Top Ten List of Most Frequently Challenged Books, compiled annually by the organization’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. So here’s this year’s “winners”, in order, and the reasons […]

Tim April 16th, 2013 | Tags: , , , | Category: A Reading Life, Libraries | Comments are closed | |

Banned Books Week: Challenged books that shaped America

Even though I’m not doing a week-long series of posts this year, I couldn’t let Banned Books Week pass without at least one. So, I thought it appropriate to mentioned banned books that helped shape the country.

Now I’m not the one who designated these books. Rather, earlier this year the Library of Congress came […]

Tim October 1st, 2012 | Tags: , | Category: A Reading Life | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) | |

Banned Books Week: Wrapup, of sorts

As another Banned Books Week comes to an end, I thought I would make mention of a few other items that appeared in the blog world about it this week, along with a news item.

Two blogs took rather unique approaches to Banned Books Week. NYRB Classics blog highlighted some of its authors who struggled […]

Tim October 1st, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Banned Books Week: It can happen here

It’s too easy to think of book challenges in the abstract. The fact is it is something we confront even here.

If you take a look at a map showing documented challenges to books in schools and libraries in the United States, you’ll see South Dakota has two push pins.

In 2010, “Paul Shaffer’s We’ll […]

Tim September 30th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Banned Books Week: Who should decide for whom?

As I’ve noted this week, one of the debates that’s going on is whether “banned” is a misleading word when it comes to what Banned Books Week is about. Cut to the bone, the question is basically whether restricting access to/removing a book a parent believes is age inappropriate is “banning” a book or censorship.

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Tim September 29th, 2011 | Tags: , , | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |
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