Banned Books Week
Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, Banned Books Week is a celebration of the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular. Banned Books Week stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.
For more information about Banned Books Week, visit any one of the co-sponsors of this event - American Booksellers Association; American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; American Library Association; American Society of Journalists and Authors; Association of American Publishers; and the National Association of College Stores. Banned Books Week is also endorsed by the Center for the Book of the Library of Congress.