ALA has announced the most challenged books of last year. Interestingly, the ones I have read are favorites of mine. I’m considering using the list as a recommended book list for my future reading. Here are the books:

1. And Tango Makes Three by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
- Reasons: Homosexuality, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Reasons: Offensive language, Racism, Sex Education, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group, Violence

3. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Reasons: Insensitivity, Offensive Language, Racism, Sexually Explicit

4. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
- Reasons: Drugs, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit

5. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- Reasons: Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group, Violence

6. Lush by Natasha Friend
- Reasons: Drugs, Offensive Language, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group

7. What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones
- Reasons: Sexism, Sexually Explicit, Unsuited to Age Group

8. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Reasons: Drugs, Inaccurate, Offensive Language, Political Viewpoint, Religious Viewpoint

9. Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie
- Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit

10. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer
- Reasons: Religious Viewpoint, Violence
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