Nearly 12,000 books were banned in schools this year ...

Nearly 12,000 bans took place in public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals five ...

Over 4,000 authors, illustrators and translators were impacted by book bans this year ...

It's official – and very depressing: Stephen King is the most banned author in US schools, according to a new report on book bans. PEN America's "The Normalization of Book Banning - Banned in the USA ...

A new PEN America report documents how state legislation across the country is driving an alarming spike in book bans in schools. Another new trend highlighted in the report: the mischaracterization ...

School book bans have hit a record high at almost 12,000 removals, according to a new report from PEN America, a free-speech organization. The group found 11,982 books banned in the 2025-26 school ...

Book bans in public schools kept rising during the first half of the 2022-23 school year, and nearly a third of them were the direct result of newly enacted state laws, a new PEN America report says.

"What students can read in schools provides the foundation for their lives," says PEN America Eric Charbonneau/Getty; Lou Rocco/ABC via Getty; VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Book bans are sharply on the ...

Book bans in public schools rose by 33% in the last academic school year, with many efforts targeting titles perceived as “sexual” or “inappropriate,” a new report from the literary and free ...

Coinciding with Banned Books Week 2022, held September 18-24, PEN America has issued a new report, which found that more than 2,500 book bans were issued in some 140 school districts in 32 states ...

A ‘cancel culture’ in some quarters, review-bombing, and claims of ‘offense’ as harm: PEN sees publishing ‘at a crossroads’ – frequently pressured by demands that come from within the industry itself.