Censorship attempts too books in the U.S. 2022, by location
In 2022, 2,571 unique titles were challenged in the United States, of which 41 percent occurred in school libraries. Meanwhile, 10 percent of challenges made to books in 2021 happened in schools. Censorship attempts were made for a number of reasons, with individuals and institutions taking issue with books that were considered to be anti-police, profane, sexually explicit, or homophobic, to name but a few.