The free-speech organization found that public schools banned 11,982 books, including 7,370 unique titles. Among them are the ...

PEN America has recorded 11,982 US school book bans in 2025-26, with Texas leading removals and titles ranging from Jane Eyre to The Handmaid's Tale and manga series Tokyo Ghoul affected. It ...

Public schools in the United States recorded 11,982 book bans during the 2025–26 academic year, according to a new report by ...

The "vast majority" of the bans were in Texas and Florida, the report said, describing the states as "blueprints for ...

One of my favorite books in my home library is a copy of Jane Eyre I bought in an antique store for a handful of dollars. Published by Random House in 1943, this out-of-print edition was illustrated ...

When teenagers went back to school in China earlier this month, one book on their new mandatory reading list stood out: the 19th century English novel “Jane Eyre.” The literary classic, originally ...

In the fall semester of 2026, the British literary classic Jane Eyre was included in the ninth-grade Chinese language curriculum as part of the "whole-book reading" list. CNN reported on the news, but ...

The heroine reminds me what it means to be beloved as I raise three children who were abandoned like her. I did not know at that first meeting that Jane Eyre would be my friend for life. It was in the ...

Vicky Li, 46, read “Jane Eyre” when she was young and saw something of herself in its heroine. Years later, she said, she shared the novel with her daughters, now 13 and 15, because she wanted them to ...

Contributing Writer for The Prospect Katharine Vennink reflects on a novel that has shaped her voice and identity.