Jim Dan Hill Library: Banned and Challenged Books: Banned and Challenged Books Two-Question Survey

2025 JDH Banned and Challenged Books Reader Survey Results

Have you read any of the books present in this photograph from May, 1979?

The question asks: Have you read—or watched films base on—any of the "Banned books" in this photo from May, 1979 (made available via the Library of Congress)?

Results are as follows:

To Kill a Mockingbird (28.6%)
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (17.9%)
Of Mice and Men (16.7%)
The Catcher in the Rye (9.5%)
Brave New World; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; and Slaughterhouse Five (7.1%, each)
The Grapes of Wrath (4.8%)

JDH Catalog Survey Results in bar graph form

Have you read these books available through the JDH Catalog?

The question asks: Have you read—or watched films based on—any of these banned or challenged books in the JDH Library Catalog?

Results are as follows:

The Giver (26.7%)
Farenheit 451 (20%)
1984 (16.7%)
The Kite Runner and A Light in the Attic (10%, each)
Maus (8.3%)
The Good Earth (5%)
In the Night Kitchen and The Bluest Eye (1.7%, each)