They both made American Library Association’s top 10 most challenged books and the top 100 most challenged books in the last decade. Beginning in 1982 with a banned book display at an American Booksellers Association event, Banned Books Week has been celebrated annually in libraries across the country, usually taking place at the end of September and beginning of October. Area libraries took time to honor Banned Books Week and explained why it is important to remember that everyone deserves the right to read what they want to read. The Lied Scottsbluff Public Library has a display at the front of the building where you can check out books from the banned books list. The Goshen County Library has been posting on social media ALA’s list of banned, or challenged, books and even providing recommendations for what banned books people should read.