At the 2025 Frankfurt Book Fair, publishers and authors spotlighted the surge in US book bans targeting works on LGBTQ+ and racial themes. With over 9,000 titles challenged in 2023, largely by ...

EVERETT — When Lyndsay Bryson moved from Spokane to Everett in 2022, she wondered how to go about making new friends. Her job as a dog trainer wasn’t yielding any human friendships. That winter, she ...

A collection event for frequently banned books brought dozens of new titles to a Rock Spring church’s library last month. It’s a response to an overall increase in attempts to ban books around the ...

"A book club is a safe haven women can count on for hope in an increasingly fragmented and isolating world" writes Martha Hall Kelly, author of 'The Martha's Vineyard Beach and Book Club' Courtesy ...

In a truly shocking turn of events, Julianne Moore‘s lighthearted, empowering children’s book has been added to the banned books list under US President Donald Trump‘s administration. On Feb 16, Moore ...

In February, 2023, David Remnick profiled Salman Rushdie after a near-fatal stabbing. “Knife,” which recounts the attack and its aftermath, is one of the titles on this year’s longlist, which spans ...

Welcome in autumn with some of our picks for the best books to read this season Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Spine ...

Nestled in the Northern Catskills, the tiny village of Hobart, New York, is home to around 400 residents, and millions of fascinating characters, all stacked high on shelves. Hobart is a book village.

A look at the book adaptations coming to life on both big and small screens this year. By Lexy Perez Associate Editor A new chapter in the world of literary adaptations is under way. From a mom ...

So, in no particular order, here they are: New Scientist’s favourite science fiction books of all time. We’d love to hear from readers, too, about your own favourite sci-fi. Join the conversation on ...

More books were removed during the first half of this academic year than in the entire previous one. By Alexandra Alter Book bans in public schools continued to surge in the first half of this school ...

Americans last year challenged more book titles than ever before, according to a new report by the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom. More than 4,000 unique titles were ...