This report on book bans in the 2023-24 school year documents how censorial trends have continued to ripple beyond the shelves.| PEN America
PEN America sought to further understand the impacts of this censorship – the identities and genres being erased from public schools.| PEN America
Banned in the USA utilizes snapshots to illustrate the hateful rhetoric driving book bans and the damage this movement has done to students.| PEN America
In this 2023 banned books update, PEN America recorded more book bans during the fall 2022 semester than in each of the prior two semesters.| PEN America
In the 2022–23 school year, PEN America recorded 3,362 instances of book bans in US public school classrooms and libraries.| PEN America