The Trump administration calls the concept of book "bans" a hoax, as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has done for years.

In 2025, DeSantis’s terminology has gone national. In a press release from the U.S. Department of Education, officials argue ...

It's Banned Books Week, an annual effort by the American Library Association to raise awareness about censorship. Each year, the ALA creates a top ten list of the most challenged books filed by ...

Dallas Center-Grimes school board establishes reconsideration committee for challenged books President Trump and Elon Musk, ...

Her book is a true crime narrative that explores the intersection of race, gender, the juvenile justice system and income ...

While Maus may be the banned book making waves now, it is only one of many texts that have been barred or challenged by governments around the world – here are eight more. This dystopian science ...

In 2023-2024, bans grew 20 times over the 2020 baseline. That’s a lot of missing books and a lot of students denied the ...

In 2018, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom documented 483 books challenged or banned in 2018. However, since the ALA's database is built by media coverage and individual reports ...

But that didn’t insulate it from censorship challenges; in fact, Of Mice and Men is amongst the most challenged books of the last few decades. Challenges have included complaints about ...

Since its publication, the book has consistently landed on the American Library Association’s list of most challenged books. Reasons cited have included, “sexually explicit material ...