Deadline to sign up for Banned Book Week Kit
Opt-in Form to Request a Banned Books Week Kit
Event Details
American Booksellers for Free Expression (ABFE) is asking bookstores to opt-in if they wish to receive a Banned Books Week kit for Banned Books Week 2025, which will be held October 5 - 11, 2025. Banned Books Week kits are sent annually to participating stores and include materials to decorate displays and educate customers about the freedom to read.
The deadline to complete this form is June 15, 2025.
The theme for Banned Books Week 2025 is “Censorship Is So 1984. Read for Your Rights.” Current efforts to ban books and information held in schools, libraries, archives, and bookstores are a truth close to fiction — namely, the depiction of extreme censorship by an oppressive regime in George Orwell’s cautionary and prescient tale 1984. The Banned Books Week 2025 theme reminds us that the right to read belongs to all of us, that censorship has no place in contemporary society, and that we must defend our rights.