Toni Morrison's "Beloved" achieved the top spot on the list. In 2005, the New York Times conducted a poll of writers and literary experts, asking them to choose the greatest works of American fiction from the past quarter century. "Inappropriate topics of bestiality, racism, and sex"
For more information on why these classics were challenged visit the Banned Books Week Web site. The titles below represent banned or challenged books on that list ( see the entire list here). The ALA condemns censorship and works to ensure free access to information.Īccording to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, at least 46 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts. The ALA compiles lists of challenged books in order to inform the public about censorship efforts that affect libraries and schools. The ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) receives reports from libraries, schools, and the media on attempts to ban books in communities across the country. Source: Banned Books: Challenging our Freedom to Read by Robert P. Such changes include exclusion, restriction, removal, or age/grade level changes.Ī challenge is defined as a formal, written complaint filed with a library or school requesting that a book or other material be restricted or removed because of its content or appropriateness.
A change in the access status of material, based on the content of the work and made by a governing authority or its representatives. A publicly disseminated statement challenging the value of the material, presented to the media and/or others outside the institutional organization in order to gain public support for further action. A formal, written complaint filed with the institution (library, school, etc.), challenging the presence and/or appropriateness of specific material.
An oral challenge to the presence and/or appropriateness of the material in question. An inquiry that has judgmental overtones. In 1986, in response to inquiries from librarians facing book or material challenges for the first time, the Intellectual Freedom Committee developed the following list of definitions to clarify terminology associated with challenges:
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