In 2022, the Office for Intellectual Freedom received a record 1,269 book challenges, the highest number of demands to ban books reported to ALA since the association began compiling data about censorship in libraries. This nearly doubles the 729 book challenges reported to the Office for Intellectual Freedom in 2021. Pro-censors challenged 2,571 books in 2022, a 38 percent increase from the 1,858 books targeted for censorship in 2021. Of those titles, the vast majority were written by or about members of the LGBTQIA+ community or by and about Black people, Indigenous people, and people of
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