2021 Banned Books week is September 26 – October 2

The Banned Books Week Coalition is an international alliance of diverse organizations joined by a commitment to increase awareness of the annual celebration of the freedom to read. The Coalition seeks to engage various communities and inspire participation in Banned Books Week through education, advocacy, and the creation of programming about the problem of book censorship.

Censorship Silences Voices 

For more details visit Banned Books Week. 

American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom tracks attempts to ban or restrict access to books. More than 273 titles were challenged or banned in 2020, with increasing demands to remove books that address racism and racial justice or those that shared the stories of Black, Indigenous, or people of color. As with previous years, LGBTQ+ content also dominated the list.

Visit your local bookstore and buy a book. Support your local library. Read a poem to a child. Organize a reading. Begin a lending book library.