The American Library Association has released their list of the top ten challenged books for the past year. They are:

1) And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson;

2) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie;

3) Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley;

4) Crank, by Ellen Hopkins;

5) The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins;

6) Lush, by Natasha Friend;

7) What My Mother Doesn’t Know, by Sonya Sones;

8 ) Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich;

9) Revolutionary Voices, edited by Amy Sonnie;

10) Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer

Regardless of whether or not you like the books on this list, books should never be censored and challenges to their removal should not be taken seriously.