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Temporarily banned in the United States for violation of obscenity laws; the ban was lifted in 1959. [clarification needed] [8] Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller: 1934 1964 Novel (fictionalized memoir) Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US Customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity.
In 2023, a USA TODAY investigation revealed that a site called BookLooks.org was the resource behind hundreds of book challenges nationwide. Launched in 2022, the site promotes a book-rating ...
PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, found that book bans nearly tripled during the 2023-2024 academic year with over 10,000 books banned in public schools.
Story at a glance There were 3,362 book ban attempts in K-12 schools across the country last school year — 33 percent more than the year before, according to a new report from free expression ...
[7] [39] [40] Adam Szetela of Newsweek opined that both the right and the left are "guilty" of banning books, citing the ban of To Kill a Mockingbird in California schools, Dr. Seuss' books being pulled from libraries and bookstores, and videos of liberals burning Harry Potter books. [41]
This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...
The rise in banned books during the 2023-'24 school year—nearly tripling from 3,362 bans PEN recorded the previous year—can be attributed partly to the singling out of books about romance and ...
Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf has been banned by several European governments. [1] [2] [3] This is an index of lists of banned books, which contain books that have been banned or censored by religious authority or government.