19.9914% OFF$17.23 at Amazon With five bans, Ellen Hopkins’s riveting People Kill People is the 50th most banned book in America in the first half of the 2022–2023 school year, tied with a few others, ...

Book censorship is … becoming the norm? For those who honor the work and dedication of our librarians, booksellers, authors and fellow readers, that’s the disturbing conclusion of a just-published PEN ...

Indiana public libraries over the past year faced objections to books written for children, young adults and older readers alike. As in previous years, most of the books that were challenged included ...

Every year, there are a handful of popular reads that manage to land on a “banned books” list, removing them from public shelves and placing them on a proverbial no-no list. But for one week a year, ...

This holiday season, librarian Jennie Pu has put together a reading list of banned or frequently challenged books. She said they are titles that may have stirred up controversy but have also opened ...

The Erie County Public Library promotes awareness of banned books, including through exhibits created for the Lake Erie Lit Festival help in September. Reasons for book challenges range from profanity ...

The most commonly banned books in U.S. schools include LGBTQ titles, international bestsellers, teen romantasy novels and a 1962 classic, according to a new report that compares modern-day censorship ...

The following satire is protected speech: Beginning Sunday, weary defenders of the First Amendment will observe Banned Books Week, drawing attention to the thousands of book titles that have been ...

On a special episode (first released on October 9, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: For this Banned Books Week, we looked at what kinds of books are being pulled from school and library shelves. USA ...