What are the steps to ban a book and get it back on the reading list?

Question

like what are the government procedures to censor a book

Answer 1

Your question is confusing, because banning a book would be the opposite of getting it on a reading list, wouldn't it? Banning a book would get it on a "do not read" list, instead.

I can only speak for the USA. Here, the country's government does not ban books. Freedom of speech and all that. Localities ban books. Most commonly a school board will have a book removed from a class's reading list or even from that school's library. A city council may have a book removed from that city's public library or libraries. I can't remember the last time a whole state has banned a book (the only one that comes to mind is pre-Civil War, a book by a black activist which was banned in several southern states), but that would be done by the state government. Most pornography laws are local as well, except when the US Postal Service is used to send it (at which point it becomes a Federal Offense).

I hope you're not trying to get a book banned, but if you are--that's how it's done. Take a complaint to the local school board and/or the local city council and see if you can actually convince enough of them to pass a ruling.