In Our Mothers’ House by Patricia PolaccoĤ9. A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl by Tanya Lee StoneĤ7. The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby by Dav PilkeyĤ4. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichĤ1. What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sonesģ9. The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brienģ5. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twainģ4. Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdelģ3. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwoodģ1. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out by Susan KuklinĢ9. Scary Stories (series) by Alvin SchwartzĢ7. Alice McKinley (series) by Phyllis Reynolds NaylorĢ2. Sex is a Funny Word by Cory SilverbergĢ1. A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo by Jill TwissĢ0. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chboskyġ9. I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthelġ4. Internet Girls (series) by Lauren Myracleġ3. And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnellĩ.

Captain Underpants (series) by Dav PilkeyĦ. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieĢ. Some of the titles here aren’t really a surprise (not the first rodeo for Lolita), while others seem a little more puzzling-what did Adam Mansbach ever do to us? Stories about dystopia ( Feed, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Giver) continue to get resistance, almost like they have important points to make about the dystopia where we live now.ġ. Kicking off Banned Books Week, the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom released the list on Sunday based on the censorship reports it reviewed from 2010-19. In other words, all the books that we should be reading all the time. The results are in, and the list of most challenged books from the last decade is a mix of American classics, LGBTQ-themed books, and stories about female agency and empowerment.

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