The Absolutely True Story of the Unbanned Banned Books List

(course journal entry assignment, December 2016; UPDATED August 24, 2022)

My most memorable experience with book challenges wasn’t about helping with titles that had been targeted, but rather, helping with titles that had never been targeted.

(tl;dr version: Darn internet!)

Several years ago it had come to my attention that the Library of the American Library Association (ALA) was getting banned/challenged queries from students about titles that were not only not included in the…