Recs if you like Damsel...

Utah has banned 22 books from their public schools. With the newest three added this month, I thought it might be a good TBR list for the new year. For more info, here’s the book riot article announcing the newest additions https://bookriot.com/utah-bans-20-21-22-books/

Well they keep adding books to the list. It has officially gone up to 44 books in total.

In the 2024-2025 school year, PEN America recorded 6,870 instances of book bans affecting nearly 4,000 unique titles. For the third straight year, Florida was the No. 1 state for book bans, with 2,304 instances of bans, followed by Texas with 1,781 bans and Tennessee with 1,622. 🔎 https://pen.org/banned-books-list-2025/

a list of the most frequently challenged books as recorded by the american library association. 🔗 read more here.

*note: if multiple books from the same series are listed by the ala, i have only included one book per series here