All the Fall Anticipated Books You Need

If you don’t have time to parse each list, I can tell you the standout repeats are:

Delaware Signs Anti-Book Ban Legislation Into Law

Good news from Delaware. Governor Matt Meyer signed into law anti-book ban and free speech legislation, saying, “Our libraries have the potential to empower the next generation of Delawareans to think critically, to ask important questions and grow into the type of empathetic citizens and leaders we want them to be, and that’s not going to happen if we isolate or exclude certain texts or ideas from our public spaces.” Though the state has seen only one public removal of books, this will hopefully set a strong example for other states. To get the latest on book banning news, I encourage you to subscribe to our Literary Activism newsletter. In fact, we have a recent Literary Activism piece below.

Last year, in honor of Prison Censorship Week, we ran three powerful pieces from individuals experiencing incarceration about where and how access to books and reading has been crucial to them. With Banned Books Week around the corner–October 6-12–and Prison Banned Books Week after that–October 19-25–it’s beyond time to talk with experts in prison book censorship to learn what’s going on right now and where advocates for intellectual freedom can support the fight for’ First Amendment Rights to those experiencing imprisonment. It is especially important to remember that, despite a wave of anti-book ban laws penned in several states across the country, most of those do not provide any protections to incarcerated individuals. Only one state addressed prison censorship in its suite of anti-book ban laws, and that was California with Assembly Bill 1986.