The Banned Book Project 2025 Game. Banned books week celebrates the freedom to read and draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting current and historical attempts to remove or restrict books. When we look at january 1st to august 31st of 2025, our ala office of intellectual freedom tracked 414 challenges to censor library materials and services.
The american library association has released preliminary data documenting attempts to censor. In november 1979, less than four months after he was inducted into the hall of fame, willie mays was banned from major league baseball.