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Hit 50 banned books on my reading list this year and it's way worse than I thought
I set a goal back in January to read 50 books that have been banned somewhere in the U.S. just to see what all the fuss was about. I hit that number last week and honestly it shook me. Most of them were pulled from school libraries or reading lists for really flimsy reasons like references to puberty or mentioning that slavery was bad. I grew up in a small town in Iowa where we barely had a library at all so I had no idea how much material was being hidden from kids. One book I read was a simple graphic novel about a kid with a single mom and it was banned in three districts for 'promoting alternative family structures.' That one got me because my own kids have friends from all sorts of families and reading about different lives is part of growing up. Has anyone else tried a challenge like this and found a pattern in what gets pulled most often?
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torres.jason9d ago
Our town's library won't even stock books with gay characters now.
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emeryfox9d agoMost Upvoted
Right?? That's such a messed up policy for a public library honestly. @maxmurphy hit it perfectly, they're just scared of kids thinking for themselves. My local library got rid of their whole LGBTQ section last month and it's super frustrating.
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maxmurphy9d ago
Nailed it. Same pattern here. They just don't want kids thinking for themselves lol.
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