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Most Challenged Books of 2023

Gender Queer: a Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Call Number: HQ76.27.Y68 K63 2019
ISBN: 9781549304002
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
Reason for Challenges: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Call Number: Juvenile Collection ; 921 J673J67 2020
ISBN: 9780374312718
Publication Date: 2020-04-28
Reason for Challenges: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit
This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson; David Levithan (Introduction by)
Call Number: Juvenile Collection ; 306.7 D272B72 2015
ISBN: 9781492617822
Publication Date: 2015-06-16
Reason for Challenges: LGBTQIA+ content, sex education, claimed to be sexually explicit
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Call Number: Juvenile Collection ; 813 C5133P43 2019
ISBN: 9781982110994
Publication Date: 2019-09-24
Reason for Challenges: claimed to be sexually explicit, :GBTQIA+ content, rape, drugs, profanity
Flamer by Mike Curato (Illustrator)
Call Number: Comic Arts ; PN6727.C86 F53 2020
ISBN: 9781627796415
Publication Date: 2020-09-01
Reason for Challenges: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit
The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Call Number: Africana Studies Collection ; PS3563.O8749 B55 1993
ISBN: 9780679433736
Publication Date: 1993-12-28
Reason for Challenges: rape, incest, claimed to be sexually explicit, EDI (Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) content
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Revised Edition) by Jesse Andrews
Call Number: Juvenile Collection ; 813 A567M47 2012
ISBN: 9781419719608
Publication Date: 2015-04-21
Reason for Challenges: claimed to be sexually explicit, profanity
Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
Call Number: 813 H793T82 2009
ISBN: 9781416950073
Publication Date: 2009-08-25
Reason for Challenges: claimed to be sexually explicit, drugs, rape, LGBTQIA+ content