Banned Books Week Australia 2024 Schedule. Banned books week celebrates the freedom to read and spotlights current and historical attempts to censor. We are proud to partner with pen america austin and austin public library, and to celebrate banned books week every fall by demonstrating the.
The american library association, which tracks book challenges and bans each year, reports a 65% increase in the number of challenged and banned books between. Charles yu is the author of four books, including his latest, โinterior chinatown,โ which won the 2020 national book award for fiction, was shortlisted for the.