Banned Books Week is September 30 – October 6th. I can think of no better reason to pick up a book than to piss off the idiots who make complaints about these novels. Listed here are the top ten challenged books of 2011. Go pick one up, or all of them, read them, then give the challengers the finger.
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
Reasons: offensive language; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
Reasons: nudity; sex education; sexually explicit; unsuited to age group
ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series), by Lauren Myracle
The Color of Earth (series), by Kim Dong Hwa
The Hunger Games trilogy, by Suzanne Collins
My Mom's Having A Baby! A Kid's Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy, by Dori Hillestad Butler
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Alice (series), by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
What My Mother Doesn't Know, by Sonya Sones
Gossip Girl (series), by Cecily Von Ziegesar
To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee
Reasons: offensive language; racism