I'm curious about where I can find public lists of banned books across various states in the US. Are these lists openly accessible to the public, or do they mainly remain internal documents shared between the government and libraries?
I'm curious about where I can find public lists of banned books across various states in the US. Are these lists openly accessible to the public, or do they mainly remain internal documents shared between the government and libraries?
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sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 325d
This might be useful https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/
I remember seeing another site that went into amazing detail about not just what books were banned, but where and for what (stated) reasons. I can't find it right now, but will post again if I do. It was basically a huge spreadsheet!
EDIT Actually, I think this was it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1am1vKU3MR1209AanJVqySFtRYe3IiB1k/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107625701392691841725&rtpof=true&sd=true
Also, some info about it: https://www.everylibraryinstitute.org/book_censorship_database_magnusson
TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 325d
https://bannedbooksweek.org/resources/#Banned%20Books%20and%20Plays
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 6 pts · 325d
I'm in NYC They do a Banned Books Week here.
https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/banned-books
misericordiae@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 323d
The American Library Association posts "most challenged" lists, unfortunately not by state. Here is the top ten for 2024, and if you scroll all the way down, there's also links to the top 100 from each of the past 3 decades (if you want historical data). The ALA has an Office of Intellectual Freedom that absolutely collects all the challenged/banned book data, but I couldn't find it posted anywhere (closest is this, but more recent years are missing... can probably supplement with here).
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 324d
Davy_Jones@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 324d