Book Bans by State
Number of bans (log scale)
0
10
100
1,000
9,000+
Source: PEN America Index of School Book Bans (since 2021).
County counts are recorded from district-level records, aggregated to their county.
Since 2021, PEN America has documented 22,810 book bans across 45 states
and 451 public school districts. These 20 titles have been banned most
often over that period.