Banned Books 2024 List. The american library association's office for intellectual freedom (oif) has released new data documenting book challenges throughout the united states, finding that. Book bans are spreading with banned books and book challenges across the united states.

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. With five bans, ellen hopkins’s riveting people kill people is the 50th most banned book in america in the first half of the.