Read Banned Books: Further reading

Websites

• Banned Books Week 2024 is observed September 22-28. Find out more at the Banned Books Week Coalition website and the American Library Association website.
• The EveryLibrary Institute has Tasslsyn Magnusson's Book Censorship database tracking book bans and challenges in the United States from 2021 onward.
• PEN America has a Banned in the USA report and data set tracking recent attempts to censor books in schools.
• The Banned Books Book Club features and discusses important books that have been the targets of censorship attempts, including a number of the titles featured in this exhibit. You can also use their site to request free copies of banned titles you are not otherwise able to get, or to fund sending free copies to those who need them.
• Extensive book bans have long been in effect in many prisons. Books to Prisoners has collected Prison Banned Books Lists for many states.
• The Penn Libraries, which hosts this website, also has a Banned Books Collection featuring original print copies of books published in the US in the 1940s and 1950s that were banned from sale and condemned by authorities for their sexual content.

Books

These books were used as sources for this exhibit, or are useful resources generally on book censorship. The Online Books Page also lists free online books about banned books.

• Foerstel, Herbert N. Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries. Second edition. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2002.
• Haight, Anne Lyon and Chandler B. Grannis. Banned Books, 387 B.C. to 1978 A.D. Fourth edition. New York: Bowker, 1978.
• Karolides, Nicholas J. et al. 120 Banned Books: Censorship Histories of World Literature. Second edition. New York: Checkmark Books, c2011.

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Read Banned Books is a featured exhibit of The Online Books Page and is subject to its copyrights and licenses.