Banned Books- Evansville: Banned Books

This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, considered an American classic, was challenged and banned because of violence and its use of the N-word.

Despite winning multiple awards and being the most searched-for book on Goodreads during its debut year, this YA novel was challenged and banned in school libraries and curriculums because it was considered “pervasively vulgar” and because of drug use, profanity, and offensive language.

Reasons: challenged for a sexually explicit scene that may lead a student to “sexual experimentation”

Reasons: offensive language, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group, and other (“profanity and atheism”)

Reasons: nudity, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group

Reasons: gambling, offensive language, political viewpoint. Additional reasons: “politically, racially, and socially offensive,” “graphic depictions”

Reasons: sexually explicit, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: “contains controversial issues”

Reasons: insensitivity, nudity, racism, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit

Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group