2025 Book Bans. Recently, pen america published an analysis of how project 2025 seeks to turbocharge book banning and similar attacks on the freedom to read, learn, and teach, as part of an envisioned overhaul of the public education. This is the land of the free.

As noted in our methodology, our snapshot of the total number of book bans and the distribution of book bans across states and districts are likely an undercount. Skyrocketing prices are mostly to blame, with insurance costs more than doubling since.