2021 was a banner year for calls to ban books. According to the American Library Association, there were 729 attempts to censor libraries, targeting 1,597 books—the highest amount since the ALA started keeping track 20 years ago. Most of these were school libraries.
Rather than list the ten most-banned books of 2021, I skipped around among the top 50. Almost all of the top ones deal with LGBTQ+ people, the current hottest cultural enemy of the intolerant, but I wanted to highlight a broader cross-section of bigotry as a reminder that they don’t just hate gay people. They hate almost everyone else too!
Here are 10 of top 50 most challenged or banned books in 2021, as well as what we can learn from the targeting of each title.
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