National conversations about book banning have erupted in recent weeks as conservatives around the country rally to challenge titles that they deem “age inappropriate” for schools and libraries. The ...

Two new book groups are forming this spring at Rodman Public Library. For adults who like to read literature written for young adults, there is the I Read YA discussion group. For those who love ...

Pictured are bookshelves at a school library in Houston. Elected officials in a Houston-area county earlier this month instructed their public library system to add more conservative-themed books to ...

Amid a nationwide campaign to dehumanize trans people, the Wake County Public Libraries have added Johnny the Walrus to their collection, a transphobic picture book that compares being transgender to ...

The program, called The Banned Book Club, provides readers with free access to books pulled from shelves of their local libraries. The e-books will be available to readers via the Palace e-reader app.

An author whose novel about book banning was removed from a Florida school district’s library shelves has asked the school board to reinstate his book, saying that its removal is “erasure of the ...

An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. By John Ismay John Ismay, a Pentagon reporter based in ...

Attempts to restrict library books continued to accelerate last year, according to a report released Thursday from the American Library Association. Overall, the number of individual titles challenged ...

Queens is officially the most bookish borough. The World’s Borough library system saw the biggest surge in book checkouts from last year to this year — as bookworms across the Queens Public Library’s ...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A library book has been returned nearly 82 years after it was borrowed from the San Antonio Public Library. It came with a letter noting that “Grandma won’t be able to pay for it ...

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KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. — A new Tennessee law that specifically bans books with sexually explicit imagery went into effect on Monday. It changes the state's existing restrictions on materials allowed in ...