National Banned Books Week 2025. By focusing on efforts to remove or restrict access to books, banned books week draws national attention to the harms of censorship, and to promote freedom to. Banned books week was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in libraries, bookstores, and schools.
In a time of intense political polarization, library staff in every state are facing an unprecedented number of attempts to ban books. A compilation of books commonly targeted in book ban attempts.