American Booksellers for Free Expression - ABFE

08/10/2026

07/27/2026

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05/27/2026

Indie booksellers! Did you sign up to get your free Banned Books Week kit yet? You have about a month left to opt in for our indie-exclusive campaign to help you raise awareness about the urgent problem of book censorship.

https://www.bookweb.org/request-banned-books-week-kit-2026

05/02/2026

ABA/ABFE has been on the road this week. We started the week in Albany lobbying for the freedom to read with Suzanna Hermans from and Hillary Smith from , who spoke to the importance of preventing book censorship in New York. We ended the week in Boston with Christina Pascucci-Ciampa of , where ABA’s Philomena Polefrone presented her historical research on the LGBTQIA2S+ bookstores and how the live on through a contemporary resurgence of the movement. Thank you to the for welcoming research like this at this your historic, inaugural convening.