Banned or Challenged Books: Get Involved

Join the Banned Books Week Coalition and ALA’s Office of Intellectual Freedom at 1:00 p.m. CDT, September 30, for an exclusive Facebook Live event with acclaimed and award-winning author Alex Gino!

This year, Newark Public Library brings light to contemporary book bans and reading restrictions in prisons which impact thousands of people across New Jersey. With us is Cassandra Gatelein, the founder of the first and only books-to-prisoners program in New Jersey, Books Behind Bars. We will discuss how to send books to our incarcerated family, friends, and neighbors, and why this is an act of love and solidarity.

In honor of Banned Books Week, test your knowledge of banned and challenged books with this quiz.

List of Staff Picks of books for reading recommendations. Find synopsis and interesting tidbits here. Does not reflect banned book choices solely.

View the suggestion for preparing a policy for dealing with suppression or censorship challenges.