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Christopher Boan writes for BetMaryland.com and has been covering sports and sports betting for more than seven years, with experience at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.2021-08-02
Marylandâs Most Infamous Challenged and Banned Books
Digging into a good book is a great way to expand your knowledge and keep your mind sharp.
Of course, states more and more are banning certain books and Maryland is no exception.
World Book Day will be upon us shortly, on Tuesday, April 23. To acknowledge the day, BetMaryland.com paused from constant Maryland sports betting coverage and decided to see what are the favorite banned or challenged books of state residents.
To do so, we started with a list of the top 13 most banned and challenged books, according to the American Library Association. We then used Google Trends to see how often those books were searched in Maryland. The search period was between March 8-April 8, 2024.
Marylandâs Most Popular Banned Books
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Getting a Reading on Most-Searched
At the top of the list when it comes to search volume around books that are banned in the state, you will find Stephen Chboskyâs âThe Perks of Being a Wallflower,â which redefined the young adult literary genre in 1999 by chronicling the thinking of an adolescent boy named Charlie.
That 1999 novel (33 search interest score) beat out Sarah J. Maasâ 2015 young adult romance novel, âA Court of Mist and Fury,â which is part of the authorâs âA Court of Thorns and Rosesâ quintet of novels, which were released between 2015 and 2021. The series made its way onto The New York Times Best Seller list, while also getting picked up as a TV series by Hulu. The Maas book finished second with a search interest score of 11.
Trailing those two seminal young adult novels was Ashley Hope Perezâs âOut of Darknessâ (10 search volume score). âCrank,â by Ellen Hopkins, was fourth in the state, with a score of eight.
Rounding out the Maryland banned books list was âGender Queerâ by Maia Kobabe (six search interest score), âLooking for Alaskaâ by Josh Green (5), âAll Boys Arenât Blueâ by George M. Johnson (4), âLawn Boyâby Jonathan Evison (3), Mike Curatoâs âFlamerâ (2) and âThis Book is Gayâby Juno Dawson (1).
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