On Friday, Febuary 13, 2026,  Bag of Bones by Stephen King met the threshold to be banned statewide. On Monday March 4, 2026, Breathless by Jennifer Niven, The Carnival at Bray by Jessie Ann Foley, The Handmaid’s Tale (graphic novel) by Margaret Atwood, and Red Hood by Elana K. Arnold were banned. 

That’s 5 books banned in under a month. 

It’s now in the hands of the Utah State Board of Education; they have 30 days to vote to overturn it and allow it back into our state’s high schools. (Make no mistake, for all the talk of getting banned books out of the hands of “children”, these books were never in elementary schools.)