Photos: 2014’s most banned and challenged books

Sept. 18, 2014 11:27 AM PT

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Sexual situations, drugs, bad language, underpants -- those are just some of the reasons people want to ban books. The American Library Assn. has a formal process for people lodging complaints, and each year, they tally them to come up with the nation’s most banned and challenged books. Here are the top 10 for 2014.

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Carolyn Kellogg

Carolyn Kellogg is a prize-winning writer who served as Books editor of the Los Angeles Times for three years. She joined the L.A. Times in 2010 as staff writer in Books and left in 2018. In 2019, she was a judge of the National Book Award in Nonfiction. Prior to coming to The Times, Kellogg was editor of LAist.com and the web editor of the public radio show Marketplace. She has an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in English from the University of Southern California.