Texas schools restricted access to 8,193 books during the 2025–26 school year, according to PEN America, as new state laws and AI-assisted reviews reshape library collections.

Over 4,000 authors, illustrators and translators were impacted by book bans this year ...

Public school library book bans don’t make headlines much these days, but a new report from PEN America shows that these bans continue to grow — in the school year 2025-2026, a total of 11,982 books ...

Texas tops list with 8,100 bans while Stephen King is again most banned author, PEN America finds ...

The fight against book bans by public school librarians shown in new documentary. According to a new report from PEN America, public schools across the U.S. saw more than 6,800 bo ...

A new report says U.S. public schools removed or restricted a record number of books during the last school year.

The "vast majority" of the bans were in Texas and Florida, the report said, describing the states as "blueprints for ...

In comparison, 27 states did not ban a single book during the 2025-26 school year.

A new study from PEN America reveals that there were nearly 12,000 book bans in public schools over the past year, the highest since tracking began five years ago ...

More than 8,100 books were banned in Texas schools, as districts increasingly used AI tools to review library materials.

The 2025-26 school year saw nearly 12,000 book bans, most of them in two states, according to a new report. (Photo PEN America) ...

A recent accounting of a northern Minnesota public school book ban has highlighted a 2024 state law meant to prohibit such ...