PEN America counted 3,743 unique titles pulled from school libraries in the latest academic year — and nonfiction is now a front-line target. According to PEN's Facts & Fiction report , nonfiction's share of banned titles doubled — from 14% to 29%, which works out to more than 1,100 books. Reference and informational titles — the kind that live on classroom shelves rather than school libraries — more than doubled their share, climbing from 5% to 13%. Banned titles include Home Life in Ancient Egypt , A Tour of Your Digestive System , Aztec, Inca & Maya , and Challenges for LGBTQ Teens . Four out of five banned titles were aimed at children and young adults. Fiction bans still skew heavily toward books featuring characters of color (44% of all bans, the highest PEN has ever recorded) and LGBTQ+ characters (39%, up from 25%).…