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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This year’s #BannedBooksWeek coincides with ALA’s official 150th anniversary. To mark the occasion, ALA has released a list of the 150 most challenged books documented from 1990, when ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom began tracking book challenges, through 2025. ala150.org/150books
Photo of a bookshelf filled with various books that have been banned or challenged, including "Maus," "Sex Is a Funny Word," "This Book Is Gay," "Persopolis," and "1984." Text over photo reads: "ALA Releases List of 150 Books Most Frequently Targeted for Censorship Since Tracking Began. American Library Association logo
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Books removed from FL schools 2024-25 by county #BannedBooksWeek Clay County 282 removals Polk 53 removals Escambia 22 removals Orange 19 removals Santa 17 removals Bay 10 removals Marion 10 removals Brevard 9 removals Manatee 8 removals Broward 7 removals Hernando 4 removals
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Happy Banned 📚 Week. "Free" state of FL is the #1 book-banning state in the country with nearly 9,000 books removed from the public schools media centers since 2021.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Read baned books 📚 The 2025 data reported to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom shows that the majority of book censorship attempts continue to originate from by pressure groups, government officials, and decision makers. www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wow Interesting book choice from the department of education. Harry Potter tops the list of most challenged books of the 21st century.
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reading has become an endangered species. Which is half the problem with American political life. Maybe more than half. If you can't read, you can't think. Then you can fall for anything. The idea, for instance, that the truth is fake news.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's time to push out Moms for liberty from all school boards in Florida. Progressive candidates beat opponents backed by or aligned with Moms for Liberty in school board races across Florida – in many cases reversing gains made by the group in 2022. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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No more book bans: how Florida students are pushing rightwingers out of school boards
Local communities are fighting back against the influence of conservative groups like Moms for Liberty in education
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Stephen King @stephenking.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Can't believe I made it to 79. I mean, holy cow!
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled Democracy" Alongside silencing the press and radio, the 53 days period involved purging civil services, arresting political opponents and intimidating voters... Short but absolutely terrifying book because it sounds so familiar.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"Why did this take so long? You folks are obviously asleep at the wheel." @carlhiaasen.com mocks Clay County FL in a perfect Hiaasen way. The county leads the state with 282 book removals in the 24-25 school year.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 01/09/2026
Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries
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Political Attacks Are Pushing Public Libraries To ‘Breaking Point,’ New Report Shows
Attacks on librarians, forced storytime cancellations and book bans are threatening the stability of public libraries
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The most recent list released by the Florida Department of Education reveals which books have been removed or discontinued from state schools in the 2024-2025 school year. Clay County: 282 removals Polk County: 53 removals Escambia County: 22 removals www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2...
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Here is a full list of ‘banned’ books in Central Florida schools
News 6 has compiled a list of the latest "book bans" from across Central Florida.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!
Barack Obama's 2026 Summer Reading List: 

Kin by Tayari Jones
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
A World Appears by Michael Pollan
Whistler by Ann Patchett
This Land is Your Land by Beverly Gage
Vigil by George Saunders
One Sun Only by Camille Bordas
Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu
Data Empire by Roopika Risam
Transcription by Ben Lerner
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The next phase of FL school book bans. Maybe we can turn those empty media centers into mini data centers to modernize the learning environment. 🤢 www.wusf.org/politics-iss...
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Patiently waiting for Trump's summer reading list.
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today! We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Unreliable narrators like DeSantis conceal a larger agenda to weaken public schools in favor of vouchers and private school options as outlined in Project 2025...
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False stories of ‘porn in schools’ are decoys for book bans
This bill would mean school districts across the country that reject book censorship would be thrust into this maelstrom.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
#Minneapolis
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Our highest loyalty doesn't belong to people or parties. It belongs to principles. If you wouldn't accept it from your opponents, you shouldn't accept it from your allies. Integrity is standing by your values even when your own group violates them.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Florida has earned the unfortunate distinction as the number one book-banning state in the country for three years in a row, with nearly 9,000 books banned in its public schools since 2021—and Florida shows no signs of slowing down. pen.org/florida-doub...
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Florida Is Doubling Down on Book Bans. Help Us Fight Back.
These bills cost students their learning opportunities and educators their ability to do their jobs effectively.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
FL had more than 2300 titles removed or restricted last school year. www.wusf.org/politics-iss...
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Steve Everitt @steve-everitt.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
"It's a funny thing... but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they're afraid of. What they don't want." Khaled Hosseini, AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I AM OZZY by Ozzy Osbourne "It’s impossible to describe what it feels like to hear yourself on Radio 1 for the first time. It was magic, squared. I ran around the house screaming, ‘I’m on the radio! I’m on the f**king radio!’ until my mum stomped downstairs in her nightie and told me to shut up.”
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
A new joint report from PEN America and the Florida Freedom to Read Project, "The Blueprint State: Lessons from Parents Left Behind by 'Parental Rights' Policies in Florida," illuminates precisely how these policies have reshaped education and how this model is at risk of being applied nationwide.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Slow travel is the ultimate joy. AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL? by Blythe Robertson
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/06/2025
Will reading become obsolete? How A.I. could transform our relationship to the written word.
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What’s Happening to Reading?
For many people, A.I. may be bringing the age of traditional text to an end.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 17/06/2025
Students in schools operated by the Department of Defense, like students in every other public school, have a right to an inclusive education free from censorship.
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13 “Woke” Books Banned in DOD Schools | ACLU
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Rereading THE NORDIC THEORY OF EVERYTHING by Anu Partanen. It's depressing that nothing has changed since the book was first published in 2016
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Good books immerse you in a new world. Great books introduce you to a new worldview. Good books are page-turners—they're meant to be devoured. Great books are corner-folders—they're made to be savored. Good books keep you engaged. Great books leave you changed.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Amid this growing digital epidemic, it is fundamental to decide sooner than later what do we really want to pay attention to. THE SIRENS" CALL BY CHRIS HAYES
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
ALA's top 10 of 2024 www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...
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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 01/05/2025
Did anybody else catch this @theguardian.com article on censorship in libraries? 'in an Index on Censorship survey last year, 28 of 53 librarians polled reported that they had been asked to remove books from library shelves, many of which were LGBTQ+ titles' www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a....
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Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Tombolo Books 📚 Indie bookstore in St. Pete, FL.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Raise your hand if you heard "It's all in your head" at least couple of times. Another important book on menopause. HOW TO MENOPAUSE by Tamsen Fadal
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
The report also noted that 72% of demands to censor books in school and public libraries came from "pressure groups, elected officials, board members and administrators" compared to the 16% that came from parents.
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'All Boys Aren't Blue' tops the ALA's list of most challenged books
Organized pressure groups, not individual parents, are leading the fight to remove books from shelves, according to a new report from the American Library Association.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"In the hierarchy of migration, "expat" is largely reserved for White Westerners..." ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINS THIS by Omar El Akkad
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
A must watch. Now available on Apple TV+ and Prime www.bannedtogetherdoc.com
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Home | Banned Together
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
FL already tops the list of school library book removals. But of course they want more.
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Florida lawmakers push bill that critics say would increase school book removals — again
GOP legislators say the bill would protect children from harmful content. Critics argue it would escalate challenges of books in schools.
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Adam Grant @adamgrant.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
You shouldn’t finish every book you start. Abandoning a book is not an admission of failure—it’s a sign of wisdom. You’ve decided to let go of sunk costs. The purpose of reading is to be entertained and informed. If a book doesn't bring joy or insight, it’s time to move on.
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
THE LIBRARY BOOK by Susan Orlean Support your local library.
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American Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Show Up For Our Libraries! By eliminating the only federal agency dedicated to funding library services, the Trump administration's Executive Order is cutting off at the knees the most beloved and trusted of American institutions and the staff and services they offer. ALA American Library Association. #ForOurLibraries
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Same "parental rights" playbook conservatives use to keep banning books and transform public schools. Final goal - complete and total control Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies and the Truths We Use to Win, Jessica Valenti
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Casey Reads 📚 @caseyz1-1.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
"Abortion: Our Bodies, Their Lies, and the Truth We Use to Win" by Jessica Valenti
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