'The Hunger Games,' 'Brave New World' Among Challenged Books

Every year, the American Library Association releases a list of the 10 most frequently challenged library books from the past year. The reasons range from “offensive language” to “unsuited to age group,” and some books, like To Kill a Mockingbird, are perennial picks.

The top 10 challenged books of 2011--and the reasons given by protesters for why they should be taken out of libraries--are:

1. ttyl; ttfn; l8r, g8r (series) by Lauren Myracle - offensive language, unsuited to age group, sexually explicit

2. The Color of Earth by Kim Dong Hwa - nudity, unsuited to age group, sexually explicit, sex education

3. The Hunger Games (trilogy) by Suzanne Collins - anti-family, insensitivity, offensive language, violence, anti-ethnic, occult/satanic

4. My Mom’s Having a Baby! A Kid’s Month-by-Month Guide to Pregnancy by Dori Hillestad Butler - nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group

5. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie - offensive language, racism, unsuited to age group, sexually explicit, religious viewpoint

6. Alice (series) by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor - religious viewpoint, nudity, offensive language

7. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley - insensitivity, sexually explicit, nudity, religious viewpoint, racism

8. What My Mother Doesn’t Know by Sonya Sones - nudity, sexually explicit, offensive language

9. Gossip Girl (series) by Cecily Von Siegesar - drugs, offensive language, sexually explicit

10. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee - offensive language, racism