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Banned Books Week 2025: Censorship is so 1984: Book Banning in the News

This guide explains book bans, commonly banned books, censorship, and ways you can fight back.

On Book Banning

"We are witnessing an effort to eliminate entire genres and categories of books from library shelves in pursuit of a larger goal of placing politics and religion over the well-being and education of young people and everyone’s right to access and find information in our libraries."

-Deborah Caldwell-Stone, ALA State of American Libraries 2024

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