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PEN America’s 2023-2024 Index of Banned Books found 10,046 instances of individual books banned, affecting 4,231 unique titles.
PEN America’s 2022-2023 Index of Banned Books found 3,362 instances of individual books banned. This searchable banned book list includes…
PEN America’s 2022 Banned in the USA report offered the first comprehensive look at banned books throughout the 2021–22 school…
PEN America’s fall 2022 Index of Banned Books found 1,477 instances of individual books banned, affecting 874 unique titles. This…
More books banned. More districts. More states. More students losing access to literature. “More” is the operative word for this…
Update on Book Bans in the 2022-2023 School Year Shows Expanded Censorship of Themes Centered on Race, History, Sexual Orientation…
The book ban crisis is often referred to by its numbers. A rising number of bans, more states impacted, more…
Introduction Book bans in public schools have recurred throughout American history, and have long been an issue of concern to PEN America,…
For the last three school years, PEN America has recorded instances of book bans in public schools nationwide. In that…
