The following is a list of some - not all - banned books, culled from many sources I found on the web. The reasons for being banned, which I've included, and many of the books that are banned, will come as a surprise. Which State Has the Most Books Banned Without a doubt, Texas is the state that has banned the most books. The trend of increasing book bans has continued into the 2022-23 school year as well. This affected students in almost 140 school districts across 32 states. As PEN America celebrates our 100th anniversary defending the freedom to read and write, book bans and restrictions are on the rise in classrooms and libraries across the country. The best way to fight back is to buy and read banned books and to talk about this growing attack on the First Amendment - and to not allow school systems and religious organizations to influence their disregard towards multi-culturism and race in the classroom. In the 2021-22 school year, over 2,500 book bans were enacted.
When is Banned Books Week 2022 Banned Books Week 2022 takes place the week of September 18-24. But we think they deserve to be read, analyzed, and enjoyed. It has been banned because of vulgarity, racism. Over the years, families and educators have challenged all of the titles on our banned book list. Far-right politicians, media, and religious leaders intent on stopping children from learning about race, sexual orientation, gender identity, and different cultures within the country have escalated their attacks on freedom of speech by increasing the call for banning of books.Īrt Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust graphic novel Maus has recently been yanked off 8 th graders reading lists in Tennessee, inciting a church in the state to hold a book burning - a book burning in 2022!?! Church members were filmed “gleefully tossing books deemed ‘demonic’ in the fire.” Steinbecks Of Mice and Men is regularly on the banned books list put out by the American Library Association.
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