>On March 2, 2026, Utah banned four more books from all public schools, bringing its complete list of books banned statewide at that time to 27. This came just days after the Maya Angelou estate joined in a lawsuit filed against the state of Utah’s book banning law. The suit challenges the legality of Utah’s “sensitive materials” law, which had at that point banned 22 books from every public school in the state. Days later, the state would add a 23rd title to the list, Bag of Bones by Stephen King, followed by Breathless by Jennifer Niven, The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley, The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and illustrated by Renee Nault, and Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold, who is a party in the lawsuit against the state.
>It appears as though the state didn’t update their records accurately, though, as that spate of bans on March 2 wasn’t limited to four titles. A fifth title was banned that day, too, but it wasn’t added to the state’s official documentation until weeks later.
>Looking for Alaska by John Green has become the 28th state-sanctioned book ban in the state of Utah. While possible this is a clerical error and Looking for Alaska was banned on the 12th, not the 2nd, this points to the inability of the state to accurately keep records. It’s the second time that a book has slid onto the list quietly.
>Nine books have now been banned in Utah since January 1, 2026.
ladeedah1988 on
This does not mean that the parent can’t get the book for the child to read. I read literally hundreds of books that had nothing to do with school assignments.
0masterdebater0 on
They have to ban individual books because any law they wrote that would ban sex, violence, incest etc. would also ban the Bible…
And they can’t have that.
Tiger955i on
Anyone else getting full-page (behind the article) Glock handgun ads? Seems very fitting for the book banning crowd.
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>On March 2, 2026, Utah banned four more books from all public schools, bringing its complete list of books banned statewide at that time to 27. This came just days after the Maya Angelou estate joined in a lawsuit filed against the state of Utah’s book banning law. The suit challenges the legality of Utah’s “sensitive materials” law, which had at that point banned 22 books from every public school in the state. Days later, the state would add a 23rd title to the list, Bag of Bones by Stephen King, followed by Breathless by Jennifer Niven, The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley, The Handmaid’s Tale: The Graphic Novel by Margaret Atwood and illustrated by Renee Nault, and Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold, who is a party in the lawsuit against the state.
>It appears as though the state didn’t update their records accurately, though, as that spate of bans on March 2 wasn’t limited to four titles. A fifth title was banned that day, too, but it wasn’t added to the state’s official documentation until weeks later.
>Looking for Alaska by John Green has become the 28th state-sanctioned book ban in the state of Utah. While possible this is a clerical error and Looking for Alaska was banned on the 12th, not the 2nd, this points to the inability of the state to accurately keep records. It’s the second time that a book has slid onto the list quietly.
>Nine books have now been banned in Utah since January 1, 2026.
This does not mean that the parent can’t get the book for the child to read. I read literally hundreds of books that had nothing to do with school assignments.
They have to ban individual books because any law they wrote that would ban sex, violence, incest etc. would also ban the Bible…
And they can’t have that.
Anyone else getting full-page (behind the article) Glock handgun ads? Seems very fitting for the book banning crowd.