Wiktionary
book-burning
n. The practice of destroying books by fire because of moral, religious or political objections to the material they contain.
Usage examples of "book-burning".
Then the Vatican caught wind of it and went on a book-burning campaign.
Virga expected the man to say more, but he seemed preoccupied with the book-burning miles away.
Only a few months after Hitler came to power, the Nazis organised a mass book-burning in German cities - not only communist literature, but works by writers such as Einstein, Thomas Mann and H.