Texas schools restricted access to 8,193 books during the 2025–26 school year, according to PEN America, as new state laws ...

Public school library book bans don’t make headlines much these days, but a new report from PEN America shows that these bans ...

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

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

More than 8,100 of the nearly 12,000 school library book bans recorded nationwide during the 2025-26 school year occurred in Texas, according to PEN America.

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

The 2025-2026 school year experienced a record number of book bans, according to a new report from PEN America. Public ...

At least 7,370 unique titles were removed from public schools across the U.S. in the last academic year, according to the new ...

Nearly 12,000 books were banned in schools this year ...

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

PEN America reported a record 11,982 book bans in U.S. public schools in 2025-26, with Texas alone logging over 8,100 after ...

PEN America's annual report examines the growing trend in bans, the books and authors targeted, and the tactics school ...