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Among the 1,648 unique banned book titles in the Index:

• 674 banned book titles (41 percent) explicitly address LGBTQ+ themes or have protagonists or prominent secondary characters who are LGBTQ+ (this includes a specific subset of titles for transgender characters or stories—145 titles, or 9 percent);

• 659 banned book titles (40 percent) contain protagonists or prominent secondary characters of color;

• 338 banned book titles (21 percent) directly address issues of race and racism;

• 357 banned book titles (22 percent) contain sexual content of varying kinds, including novels with some level of description of sexual experiences of teenagers, stories about teen pregnancy, sexual assault and abortion as well as informational books about puberty, sex, or relationships;

• 161 banned book titles (10 percent) have themes related to rights and activism;

• 141 banned book titles (9 percent) are either biography, autobiography, or memoir;

• 64 banned book titles (4 percent) include characters and stories that reflect religious minorities, such as Jewish, Muslim and other faith traditions.