Here's a List of the 438 Books Banned in Texas Schools

Texas led the nation in banned titles according to PEN America, a literary nonprofit. Florida came in a not-so-close second. The list included many surprising titles.

Texas likes to brag about being No. 1 whenever we can. We probably lead the country — if not the world — when it comes to brisket, for instance, and Gov. Greg Abbott continuously touts our friendliest-state-ever-for-businesses credentials.

Unfortunately, we also happen to be No. 1 in a less savory area: book bans.

Texas and Florida are perennially locked in a culture-war pissing contest. But in this realm, at least, we can (not-so-proudly) say that we’ve bested the Sunshine State, which ranks second in the number of book restrictions in a list compiled by the literary nonprofit PEN America.

The battle over what kids can read and learn rages on, apparently with no end in sight. State Rep. Jared Patterson, a Frisco Republican, has spearheaded the charge to strip schools of supposedly “sexually explicit material” via the so-called READER Act.


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