To help launch Banned Books Week, the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom has released a list of the Top 100 Most Banned and Challenged Books of the Past Decade. OIF noted that the list "draws attention to literary censorship but only provides a snapshot of book challenges. About 82%-97% of challenges remain unreported, estimates OIF, which compared results from several independent studies of third-party FOIA requests documenting school and library book censorship with the information in its database."
Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tops the list as the most banned and challenged book from 2010-2019. He is joined by Toni Morrison, Alex Gino, John Green and E.L. James as some of the most censored authors. The top 15 most challenged books since 2010 are:
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
- Captain Underpants (series) by Dav Pilkey
- Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- George by Alex Gino
- And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson & Peter Parnell
- Drama by Raina Telgemeier
- Fifty Shades of Grey by E.L. James
- Internet Girls (series) by Lauren Myracle
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- I Am Jazz by Jazz Jennings & Jessica Herthel
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee