A Look Back at 2013: Most Challenged and Best-Selling Books

As the year winds down, book stores are full of almanacs and other time capsules reflecting on the year that was.  

Throughout the next few weeks, we’re going to take a look at some of features in the World Almanac and Book of Facts 2014, which was released in print in November and in e-publication earlier this month.

Let’s take a look at the year in books: The most-challenged books, the notable new books, the best-sellers.

New Books, 2013

• This is How You Lose Her (fiction), Junot Diaz
• Some of My Best Friends are Black (non-fiction), Tanner Colby
• Stag’s Leap (poetry), Sharon Olds

Most Challenged Books, 2012

1. Captain Underpants (series), Dav Pilkey
2. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
3. Thirteen Reasons Why, Jay Asher
4. Fifty Shades of Grey, E.L. James
5. And Tango Makes Three, Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson

Best-Sellers, 2012

Hardcover Fiction

1. The Casual Vacancy, J.K. Rowling
2. The Racketeer, John Grisham

Hardcover Nonfiction

1. Killing Kennedy, Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard
2. No Easy Day, Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer

Mass Market Fiction

1. Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin
2. The Lucky One Nicholas Sparks

Trade Paperback

1. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One, E.L. James
2. Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two, E.L. James

Ebooks

1. Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One, E.L. James
2. Fifty Shades Darker: Book Two, E.L. James