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The Top 12 Banned Books in 2022
- Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
- All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson
- Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Pérez
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- l8r, g8r by Lauren Myracle
- Crank by Ellen Hopkins
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The Top 10 Banned Books of All Time
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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