Banned Books Week 2025 is taking place from October 5 to 11, bringing attention to the stories challenged and removed from schools, libraries, and bookstores — and acknowledging that everyone should ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Current and former USA TODAY staff picked a challenged or banned book that was meaningful to them. These are their stories. As ...

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 ...

Celebrated local author Leah Johnson opened Loudmouth Books to make the books challenged or banned in public libraries more available. During the 2024-2025 school year, 6,870 books were challenged or ...

With Americans’ free speech threatened by politicians’ bluster and federal agents swarming the region, welcome to Banned Books Week. Is there a better time to mark the annual observance of censorship ...

Over the past decade, a growing movement to restrict access to books in public schools and libraries has spread across the country. Every year, there are hundreds of attempts to challenge or ban books ...

It's one of the most fascinating paradoxes in modern education. Books that were once pulled from shelves, labeled as dangerous, or deemed inappropriate now sit at the very center of our classrooms.