Books to Avoid

1. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, sexually explicit

2. All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content,  sexually explicit

3. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
Challenged for: depiction of sexual abuse, EDI content, sexually explicit

4. Flamer by Mike Curato
Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, sexually explicit

5. (tie) Looking for Alaska by John Green
Number of challenges: 55
Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, claimed to be sexually explicit

6. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Challenged for: depiction of sexual abuse, LGBTQIA+ content, drug use, profanity, sexually explicit

7. Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, sexually explicit

8. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
Challenged for: profanity, sexually explicit

9. Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez
Challenged for: depictions of abuse, sexually explicit

10. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
Challenged for: claimed to be sexually explicit

11. Crank by Ellen Hopkins
Challenged for: drug use, sexually explicit

12. Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
Challenged for: profanity, sexually explicit

13. This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
Challenged for: LGBTQIA+ content, providing sexual education, sexually explicit