Texas Banned Books List 2024. On october 25, texas republican state representative matt krause sent a letter to the texas education agency asking if any of the schools in the state have the books listed on. Banned books week brings together the entire book community — librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers — in shared support of the freedom to seek and.
Pen america found 10,046 instances of individual books banned, affecting 4,231. The texas state board of education passed a policy in late 2023 prohibiting what it calls sexually explicit, pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable books in public schools.