{"id":72433,"date":"2026-04-22T14:56:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/us-saw-record-high-of-5668-books-banned-in-libraries-in-2025-says-agency\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T14:56:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:56:02","slug":"us-saw-record-high-of-5668-books-banned-in-libraries-in-2025-says-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/us-saw-record-high-of-5668-books-banned-in-libraries-in-2025-says-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most-banned book was Sold, a 2006 novel by Patricia McCormick about sex trafficking in India<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The American Library Association (ALA) has reported a record high in the number of books banned in US libraries.<\/p>\n<p>In 2025, 5,668 books were banned \u2013 representing 66% of the total number challenged \u2013 with an additional 920 censored through access restriction, such as relocation on the library shelves.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/22\/us-libraries-banned-books\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most-banned book was Sold, a 2006 novel by Patricia McCormick about sex trafficking in India Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox The American Library Association (ALA) has reported a record high in the number of books banned in US libraries. In 2025, 5,668 books were banned &#8230; <a title=\"US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/us-saw-record-high-of-5668-books-banned-in-libraries-in-2025-says-agency\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US saw record high of 5,668 books banned in libraries in 2025, says agency\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}