Banned Books Week 2025

Banned Books Week 2025 kicked off yesterday. First established in 1982, it is a time meant to highlight "the value of free and open access to information," and to promote intellectual freedom. This year the theme is "Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights."

https://bannedbooksweek.org/

What banned, challenged or suppressed books have you read, Thingamabrarians?

https://www.librarything.com/tag/banned%20books
https://www.librarything.com/tag/censorship

The Gulag Archipelago

"...the greatest and most powerful indictment of a political regime ever to be leveled in modern times"

https://www.librarything.com/work/14400055/t/The-Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Par...

>2 BooksAndBytes: The three volumes of this sat on my father's bookshelves, next to the works of or about Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Andre Trocme (all personal heroes of his) during my childhood. I read all three volumes in my twenties, years before I kept records of what I read.

>2 BooksAndBytes: I remember trying to read that over 50 years ago. Very difficult to follow. I gave up.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/wyoming-library-director-fired-amid-book-dis...

A librarian who was fired over not banning books got a big settlement.

>1 AbigailAdams26: , on the first page for the 'Banned Books' tag, I've 21 green checkmarks (read those ones). Some pretty strange titles in that list.