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As we wrap up Banned Books Week, we want to encourage you to take the time to really dig into what it means for us to have the freedom to read year-round, and what that means to us in our democracy. The ABA’s Right to Read Handbook (linked below) is a wonderful easy-to-pick-up start to that thought process, and we highly recommend reading it and banned books with your book club, reading groups, and community organizations.

Further reading:

The ABA Right to Read Handbook: Fighting Book Bans and Why It Matters

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Revolution in Our Time by Kekla Magoon: The Black Panther Party’s Promise to the People

PEN America: “The Normalization of Book Banning: Banned in the USA, 2024-2025”

Unite Against Book Bans Book Resumes

American Library Association’s Freedom to Read Statement (Adopted June 25, 1953, by the ALA Council and the AAP Freedom to Read Committee; amended January 28, 1972; January 16, 1991; July 12, 2000; June 30, 2004)

The Register Citizen: “Goshen Library puts 'Gender Queer' back on the shelves amid parent complaints”

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