25th Annual Banned Books Week - Sept. 23-30

The American Library Association celebrates Banned Books Week on the last week of September each year, to reminds Americans not to take the precious democratic freedom of reading for granted.

Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one's opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met.

The Top 10 List of Most Frequently Challenged Books

The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990–2000

The Indianapolis Marion-County Public Library has a discussion night planned for the week, and Adults and teens are invited to vote throughout the month at library branches for their favorite banned book during Banned Books Week. The most popular book will be selected for a book discussion.

Banned Book Week Discussion
Date: Thursday, Sep. 28, 2006
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: Brightwood Branch
Location Group: East
Age Level: Adults, Teen (12-17)

Google Book Search is partnering with the American Library Association to help people find and read books that have been banned -- Google provides searchable indexes of copyrighted books, and some full texts for books that are out of copyright... and also links to libraries that have the books available to loan.