Friends of Montclair Library

It’s Banned Books Week again, when librarians, educators, booksellers and bibliophiles celebrate and recognize the freedom to read.

Read more about Banned Books Week and the top banned books from 2010 and classic literature in this article from the Chronicle’s website.

If you’d like to check them out (literally!), here are the 10 most-challenged titles of 2010 according to the American Library Association:

And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
Crank, by Ellen Hopkins
The Hunger Games (series), by Suzanne Collins
Lush, by Natasha Friend
What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America, by Barbara Ehrenreich
Revolutionary Voices edited by Amy Sonnie (not available at OPL)
Twilight (series), by Stephenie Meyer

Go out and celebrate your freedom to read!