Tammany Parish, a suburb of New Orleans, where librarians have also been targeted and faced harassment from conservative activists. Kobabe’s book was one of the most challenged titles in St. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye.”
Other books that have been targeted - largely by conservatives - for topics such as race, gender and sexuality include George M. Overall, more than 2,500 unique titles were targeted in 2022, the highest number of attempted book bans and restrictions since the association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom began keeping track of this data more than 20 years ago. The association said this is a shift from how challenges were brought forth in prior years before 2020, the vast majority of challenges came from a single parent concerned by a book their child had access to. Of those, 40 percent wanted to remove or restrict more than 100 books all at once. The ALA’s report also noted that 90 percent of the documented book challenges from last year demanded that multiple library books be censored. The ALA’s figures are based on news reports on attempted book bans, as well as voluntary accounts from schools and libraries. Detractors objected to its LGBTQ+ themes and accused it of containing sexually explicit content, according to a report released Monday. Maia Kobabe’s memoir “Gender Queer,” which made its first appearance on the American Library Association’s list of top 10 banned books in 2021, was included in 151 different challenges last year. A graphic novel that explores gender identity and sexuality has topped the list of the most challenged books in the U.S.
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