That’s right, banned book week. I only found out about this about a month ago, but I wish I had learned about it years ago.
Banned Book Week is an annual event that was first started back in 1982. This year it runs from September 22-28. According to the official Banned Books Week website, since the start of Banned Book Week in ’82 more than 11,300 books have been banned or challenged within schools, libraries, and bookstores, and in 2012 alone around 464 were reported. These numbers don’t include incidents that are unreported, and I can’t even imagine how many of those happen each year.
