{"id":2753,"date":"2025-10-08T08:00:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/?p=2753"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:12:06","slug":"banned-book-week-top-10-most-challenged-books-of-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/2025\/10\/08\/banned-book-week-top-10-most-challenged-books-of-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Week: Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2754\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/250318-oif-topten2024-infographic.png\" alt=\"Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2024\" width=\"816\" height=\"1056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/250318-oif-topten2024-infographic.png 816w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/250318-oif-topten2024-infographic-232x300.png 232w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/250318-oif-topten2024-infographic-791x1024.png 791w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2025\/10\/250318-oif-topten2024-infographic-768x994.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The American Library Association documented <strong>821 attempts to censor<\/strong> materials and services at libraries, schools, and universities in 2024. The most common reasons for challenges were false claims of illegal obscenity for minors; inclusion of LGBTQIA+ characters or themes; and dealing with topics of race, racism, inclusivity, equity, and social justice. Of the <strong>2,452 unique titles<\/strong> that were challenged or banned in 2024, here are the top 10 most frequently targeted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Library Association documented 821 attempts to censor materials and services at libraries, schools, and universities in 2024. The most common reasons for challenges were false claims of illegal obscenity for minors; inclusion of LGBTQIA+ characters or themes; and dealing with topics of race, racism, inclusivity, equity, and social justice. Of the 2,452 unique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,100,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","category-challenged-books","category-memorial-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}