Beatrice sparks author5/29/2023 ![]() When I say teens and preteens tore through this book, I'm not talking about the teens that parents would have been worried about. Readers have torn through Go Ask Alice for more than four decades, and it has never been out of print since its release, with several different editions and in many languages. Which, of course, means that it was insanely popular among teens and preteens. It has all the tell-tale signs of a banned book: profanity, frequent drug use, including heroin and LSD, sex, rape, homosexuality, and prostitution. ![]() The novel was promoted as the real life diary of an unknown teenage girl who, readers assume with the abrupt ending, died of a drug overdose as she was writing. ![]() ![]() Go Ask Alice was published anonymously in 1971, but in the last two decades, it still lives in the top 25 most frequently banned books, according to the American Library Association. ![]()
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