Posted on August 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's the latest news on book bans, challenges, and other literary obstacles — and efforts to fight back against them.
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Florida education officials are attacking Beanstack, an online reading platform that — among other functions — allows users to build reading lists (St. Johns Citizen).
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They're also sending out tweets demanding that specific books be removed from library shelves (Florida Freedom To Read Project).
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Kelly Jensen opens her weekly book-ban roundup by analyzing how conservatives are now targeting romance novels, often falsely depicting adult books as being marketed to children (Book Riot).
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Just for a change of genre, here are six horror novels that found themselves in the middle of banning efforts (Book Riot).
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