Texas Banned Books List 2024 Usa. Ala compiled data on censorship attempts in libraries and schools during 2023. The group found more than 9,000 challenged books across the nation last year, affecting 4,240 unique titles, which is a substantial increase over 2022's 2,571.

The texas state board of education passed a policy in late 2023 prohibiting what it calls sexually explicit, pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable books in public schools. But in 2012, it was added to the list of books challenged by texas schools because of the way it depicts the consequences of colonialism.