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Banned Books Week

Celebrate ALA's annual Banned Books Week, October 1-7, 2023

Banned Books Websites

Banned Books in the News

Banned in the USA: State Laws Supercharge Book Suppression in Schools (Pen America, April 20, 2023)

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools rescinds its ban on "Banned Books Week" activities (WFAE, September 29, 2023)

Book bans in Texas spread as new state law takes effect (The Texas Tribune, October 11, 2023)

Children's picture book flagged at Alabama library because author's last name is "Gay" (AL.com, October 8, 2023)

Banned Books News (the latest from Google)

A History of Book Banning in America (The Week, September 22, 2022)

Book banning in U.S. schools has reached an all-time high (Grid, August 25, 2022)

PEN America's Index of School Book Bans (extensive spread sheet of bans from July 1, 2021-June 30, 2022, sorted by Author & Title or State & District)

States that have enacted book ban laws (Book Riot, August 26, 2022)

Book Censorship (Wikipedia)

Books Unbanned (Seattle Public Library)

"Parthenon of Books" Constructed from 100,000 Banned Books Rises at Nazi Book Burning Site in Germany (Arch Daily, July 10, 2017)