{"id":19765,"date":"2026-04-21T16:33:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=19765"},"modified":"2026-04-21T16:33:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:33:42","slug":"most-challenged-books-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/19765","title":{"rendered":"Most Challenged Books of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The American Library Association has released their list of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/news\/2026\/04\/american-library-association-releases-2025-most-challenged-books-list-national-library\">most challenged books of 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>1. <em>Sold <\/em>by Patricia McCormick<br \/>\n2.<em> The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/em> by Stephen Chbosky<br \/>\n3. <em>Gender Queer: A Memoir<\/em> by Maia Kobabe<br \/>\n4.<em> Empire of Storms<\/em> by Sarah J. Maas<br \/>\n5. (tie) <em>Last Night at the Telegraph Club<\/em> by Malinda Lo<br \/>\n5. (tie) <em>Tricks <\/em>by Ellen Hopkins<br \/>\n7. <em>A Court of Thorns and Roses<\/em> by Sarah J. Maas<br \/>\n8. (tie) <em>A Clockwork Orange<\/em> by Anthony Burgess<br \/>\n8. (tie) <em>Identical<\/em> by Ellen Hopkins<br \/>\n8. (tie) <em>Looking for Alaska<\/em> by John Green<br \/>\n8. (tie) <em>Storm and Fury<\/em> by Jennifer L. Armentrout<\/p>\n<p>The release states that &#8220;less than 3 percent of challenges originated from individual parents&#8221;, in case you were wondering. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read two books from the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Library Association has released their list of the most challenged books of 2025. 1. Sold by Patricia McCormick 2. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 3. Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe 4. Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas 5. (tie) Last Night at the Telegraph Club by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1120],"class_list":["post-19765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","tag-most-challenged-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-58N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19766,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19765\/revisions\/19766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}