“Books have held a special joy for me from the time I was a child,” Grammy Award-winning artist Pink said when explaining why she was giving away 2,000 books at a concert in Miami, “and that’s why I am unwilling to stand by and watch while books are banned by schools.”

In a later post, Pink, whose 2012 The Truth About Love became a Billboard 200 No. 1 album, elaborated, “The following are some titles of books that have been banned from schools in Florida…. To Kill A Mockingbird, The Hate You Give, Forrest Gump, A Catcher In The Rye, The Hill We Climb, Girls Who Code, Atlas Shrugged, 1984, The Kite Runner, The Bluest Eye, A Wrinkle In Time, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Fault In Our Stars, etc etc.”