Censorship Is So 1984.
Read For Your Rights!
The American Library Association and Banned Books Week Coalition are pleased to announce the theme for Banned Books Week 2025: “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Banned Books Week will take place next week October 5 – 11, 2025.
Current efforts to ban books and information held in schools, libraries, archives, and bookstores are a truth close to fiction – namely, the depiction of extreme censorship by an oppressive regime in George Orwell’s cautionary tale 1984. The Banned Books Week 2025 theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to...