Warning: Disturbing Content
At The California Review, we are sympathetic to the great tradition of tolerance we have inherited from men like Locke and Jefferson. This is especially true if your religion is the authoritarian cult that sexualizes and chemically castrates children known as Queer Theory. So, I exercised both my First Amendment rights and those of some pedophile authors who exploit the First Amendment and visited the Downtown Berkeley Public Library to explore our great Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
I checked out over 30 books from the ALA Most Challenged and Rainbow Round Table Stonewall Honors lists. I determined the picture books and graphic novels to be the groomiest and ranked those. There is no requirement for, nor or any standardized definition of, age classification in publishing. It is set by each publisher but is influenced heavily by the ALA. When a publisher or author did not explicitly specify this metric, I used Amazon’s. It is also important to note that though this article may have a lightly provocative tone and started in jest, it did not end that way. There was, it turns out, absolutely nothing fun or funny about child predation and child sexual abuse. So, whir up those wood chippers. From least to most groomy, here is our 2025 Groomer Books Tier List.
