It's Banned Book Week, and I think it's time to take a moment to honor the First Amendment. From 1990 to 2000, more than 6,300 books were challenged...and the ALA estimates that only a quarter of the challenges get reported in this tally. You know something? This isn't American. When will these well-meaning do-gooders and hopeless wingnuts remember that the appropriate response to speech you don't like isn't banning it (or burning it), but more speech?

Here's a list of the 100 most frequently challenged books from 1990-2000.

Comments

[monk]

It should be noted that there is a distinction between "challenged" and "banned". "Challenged" just means that someone somewhere (usually a wingnut) tried to get a book banned. It doesn't mean they succeeded, and it only takes one wingnut to "challenge" a book. Personally, I like to see a lot of books on the "challenged" list (rather than "banned"), as it means the wingnuts are losing.

[Chico]

I've often been called "frequently challenged."

No wait. Not "Frequently."

"Mentally?" "Vertically?" Damn...