Every year, ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) compiles a list of the Top 10 Most Challenged Books in order to inform the public about censorship in libraries and schools. The lists are based ...

Nonprofit organization PEN America released a list of the most banned titles on Jan. 27 Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital ...

We know teens can be motivated readers. And we know contemporary books written for young people − the most banned books in the country today − play important roles in these processes.

According to NPR, this book is “one of the most banned books of the past two decades.” Naysayers protest because of its illustrations of nude adult bodies, and the updated edition contains information ...

As a handmaid, it is required that Offred provide a wealthy “Commander” and his wife — who is infertile — with children. Atwood’s novel has become one the most banned books in the U.S., mainly because ...

In nineteen minutes, you can stop the world; or you can just jump off it.” At the top of Pen America’s most banned books is Nineteen Minutes, a novel which explores gun violence in the U.S. following ...

The number of books banned in public schools over the past year skyrocketed to more than 10,000, with two states—Iowa and Florida—responsible for most of them, according to preliminary ...

A book challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict access to a specific book. It is the first step toward a ban. In most places ... Above all, we ask you to read banned books and talk to ...

The 2024 survey also allowed us to further illuminate the habits of America’s most rarefied readers, the 11 percent of us who devoured at least 20 books last year. More than a third of those ...