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In a recent report, PEN America details the latest data on the increasing book bans in the U.S. In one of the key findings, they state, “During the 2023-2024 school year, 36% of all banned titles featured characters or people of color, and a quarter (25%) included LGBTQ+ people or characters.”

14 Book Censorship Posts to Revisit: Book Censorship News

Since 2021, Book Riot’s Kelly Jensen has written a column about book bans in the U.S.

As book bans continue to rise, Jensen has collected some of the key articles she’s written over the years. For even MORE bookish content, you can find my articles over on Book Riot.

"'Martyr!', Akbar’s debut novel, picks up Akbar’s thread of addiction, distress tolerance, and distorted reality: the novel opens with Cyrus, an Iranian American poet, lying 'on a mattress that smelled like piss and Febreze' and willing God to make the lightbulb in his room flicker, to manifest a sign that he should start over again...Told from Cyrus’s conflicted, vulnerable, and often irascible perspective and interweaving the stories of the friends, family, artists, and other characters who have had an impact on Cyrus’s life, Akbar’s debut is an exploration of martyrdom and the reasons we find to stay alive." -RG

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She is also the Founder of Read Appalachia, which celebrates Appalachian literature and writing. Through the Portable Feminist Reader, readers explore the state of American feminism, its successes and failures, and what feminism looks like in practice, as a complex, contradictory, personal and political, and ever-growing legacy of feminist thought.

About Roxane

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Roxane Gay is The New York Times-bestselling author of The Bad Feminist and other books and publications, a professor, editor, and social commentator.

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Kendra Winchester is a Contributing Editor for Book Riot where she writes about audiobooks and disability literature. Previously, Kendra co-founded and served as Executive Director for Reading Women, a podcast that gained an international following over its six-season run.

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The latest in nonfiction book news includes PEN America’s latest analysis of book bans, censorship posts to revisit by our very own Kelly Jensen, and books about journalists.

Roxane Gay Lists Her Favorite Books of 2024

Every year, I anticipate Roxane Gay’s roundup of her year in reading.

This year, some of her books include “A memoir I found to be terribly endearing because of the plaintive self-deprecation and self-loathing of the author and also there are interesting interpretations of biblical stories as a structural device,” and “A charming cookbook with not just recipes but charts to help you better understand flavor and ingredient combinations so you can get creative in the kitchen (if you want).”

There’s usually a healthy number of nonfiction titles on the list, and this year is no exception:

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PEN America has released a new analysis of book bans, Cover to Cover

After the Trump Administration declared that book bans are a hoax, literary organizations have been pushing back.

This list of books about journalists gives readers insight into this complex career.

That’s it for this week! If you’re looking for a place to start looking into book bans, this article roundup is a great place to start.

7 Essential Books About Journalists

Sometimes, I have cravings to read books about specific jobs—give me ALL the nitty gritty details!—and Publisher’s Weekly’s recent list is tailor-made for someone like me.

Instead of a simple list of titles, she takes a more superlative-type strategy, noting titles for certain qualities. Journalists come from a wide range of backgrounds and specialize in a range of fields. As always, feel free to drop me a line at kendra.d.winchester@gmail.com.