By Judy Clabes NKyTribune editor Pen America, founded in 1922, is a nonprofit that celebrates free expression and champions ...

Here’s a new and unusual gift idea for the holidays — banned books. The Hoboken Public Library has made a list of books that have been taken off the shelf at a library somewhere. Library Director ...

Children's biographies of trailblazing transgender public figures. An award-winning novel reflecting on what it is like to be Black in America. A series of graphic novels about the love story between ...

It's Banned Books Week, an annual event from the American Library Association that brings attention to censorship in the United States. Each year, the ALA creates a top 10 list of the most challenged ...

PEN America released its list of the most-banned books of the 2024-2025 school year on Wednesday – and warned that the number of books challenged or banned in public school districts across the ...

The Erie County Public Library promotes awareness of banned books, including through exhibits created for the Lake Erie Lit Festival help in September. Reasons for book challenges range from profanity ...

Some of these books were foundational in inspiring other writers to share their stories. Books are essential. Storytelling allows us to fill in the gaps of history, gain new perspectives, and orient ...

On a special episode (first released on October 9, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: For this Banned Books Week, we looked at what kinds of books are being pulled from school and library shelves. USA ...

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 ...

Every year, there are a handful of popular reads that manage to land on a “banned books” list, removing them from public shelves and placing them on a proverbial no-no list. But for one week a year, ...

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 ...