Definition:

Book banning, a form of censorship, occurs when private individuals, government officials, or organizations remove books from libraries, school reading lists, or bookstore shelves because they object to their content, ideas, or themes.

Now that we have established a definition the following are authors on my shelf whose works have been challenged or banned. In looking these up and reading about censorship in general I’m saddened by the current on going list of challenged and banned books of today. What I meant this little write up to be and what it became of course are of two different worlds. The following six books are on my shelf, I’m also adding in links to the current challenged/banned books of today. My two cents from looking at these authors, write what you know, ‘speak the truth and shame the devil’ which is a line of dialog that I picked up…