Banned Books Week UK

Banned Books Week UK is back! Join us in celebrating the freedom to read from 4-10 October.

Get involved:

📚Read a banned book
📖Visit your local library or bookshop
🎙️Host an event
📱Share on social media

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Index's final #BannedBooksWeekUK reading recommendation is perhaps the most famous banned book of the 20th century: The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie.

In 2022, Rushdie was stabbed multiple times at an event. He miraculously survived.

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This year, the @ALALibrary announced Sold was the most banned book in the USA in 2025

Show your solidarity with author Patricia McCormick by picking up a copy at your local library or bookshop
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Today's Banned Book recommendation: Ragazzi di vita by Pier Paolo Pasolini

Set in post-WW2 Rome, the novel was banned in Italy upon its publication in 1955 and Pasolini and his publisher were indicted for publishing “obscene” materials

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Get reading this #BannedBooksWeekUK!

Today's recommendation: Julián is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. The picture book was on PEN America’s list of the most banned picture books of 2023-2024.

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