The Banned Books Blog will count down the 100 Most Challenged Books of 2000-2009, according to the American Library Association. Each book will be reviewed but the review will not highlight the features of the books that led them to be banned. The point is not to add fuel to the fire of the would-be censors but to undermine them by reading books that I otherwise would not have read had they not been challenged, to demonstrate that by calling attention to these books they have increased, rather than reduced, their readership.
Each review will feature commentary by a real-life, red-blooded, honest-to-goodness librarian, who will speak about one of the challenged books and about the problem of censorship in general. Two librarians from each state are featured, and they are randomly matched with books from the list.
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