List of books banned by governments

Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which are prohibited by law or to which free access is not permitted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or (less often) commercial motives. This article lists notable banned books and works, giving a brief context for the reason that each book was prohibited. Banned books include fictional works such as novels, poems and plays and non-fiction works such as biographies and dictionaries.

Main article: Book censorship
This article is about books banned by governments. For books banned by other groups, see Lists of banned books.
A display of formerly banned books at a US library

Since there are a large number of banned books, some publishers have sought out to publish these books. The best-known examples are the Parisian Obelisk Press, which published Henry Miller's sexually frank novel Tropic of Cancer, and Olympia Press, which published William Burroughs's Naked Lunch. Both of these, the work of father Jack Kahane and son Maurice Girodias, specialized in English-language books which were prohibited, at the time, in Great Britain and the United States. Ruedo ibérico, also located in Paris, specialized in books prohibited in Spain during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. Russian literature prohibited during the Soviet period was published outside of Russia.

In many territories, distribution, promotion, or certain translations of the Bible have historically been prohibited or impeded. See Censorship of the Bible.[1]

Many countries throughout the world have their own methods of restricting access to books, although the prohibitions vary strikingly from one country to another: hate speech, for example, is prohibited in a number of countries, such as Sweden, though the same books may be legal in the United States or United Kingdom, where the only prohibition is on child pornography.

Despite the opposition from the American Library Association (ALA), books continue to be banned by school and public libraries across the United States. This is usually the result of complaints from parents, who find particular books not appropriate for their children (e.g., books about sexual orientation such as And Tango Makes Three). In many libraries, including the British Library and the Library of Congress, erotic books are housed in separate collections in restricted access reading rooms. In some libraries, a special application may be needed to read certain books.[2] Libraries sometimes avoid purchasing controversial books, and the personal opinions of librarians have at times affected book selection.

Afghanistan
Title Notes
All During the five-year reign of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, Western technology and art was prohibited and this included all books.

Albania
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Përbindëshi (The Monster) (1965) Ismail Kadare 1965-1990 Novel Banned for 25 years in Albania.[3]

Argentina
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov 1955 Novel Banned for being "obscene".[4]

Australia
Title Author(s) Year published Year Banned Year Unbanned Type Notes
The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1353 1927 1936 Story collection Banned in Australia from 1927 to 1936 and from 1938 to 1973.[5]
The 120 Days of Sodom (1789) Marquis de Sade 1789 1957 *Unknown* Novel Banned by the Australian Government in 1957 for obscenity.[6]
Droll Stories Honoré de Balzac 1837 1901, 1928 1923, 1973 Short stories Banned for obscenity from 1901 to 1923 and 1928 to c.1973.[7][8]
The Straits Impregnable Sydney Loch 1916 1914 *Unknown* Fictionalised Autobiography First edition published as a novel, second edition banned by the military censor in Australia under regulations of the War Precautions Act 1914.[9]
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) D. H. Lawrence 1928 1929 1965 Novel Banned from 1929 to 1965.[10][11]
Rowena Goes Too Far (1931) H. C. Asterley 1931 *Unknown* *Unknown* Novel Banned in Australia because of customs belief that it "lacked sufficient claim to the literary to excuse the obscenity"[12]
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 1932 1937 Novel Banned in Australia from 1932 to 1937.[10]
Forever Amber (1944) Kathleen Winsor 1944 1945 *Unknown* Novel Banned by Australia in 1945 as "a collection of bawdiness, amounting to sex obsession."[13][14]
Borstal Boy Brendan Behan 1958 1958 *Unknown* Autobiographical novel Banned shortly after its ban in Ireland in 1958.[15]
Another Country James Baldwin 1962 1963 1966 Novel Banned in Australia by the Commonwealth Customs Department in February 1963. The Literature Censorship Board described it as "continually smeared with indecent, offensive and dirty epithets and allusions," but recommended that the book remain available to "the serious minded student or reader." The ban was lifted in May 1966.[16]
Ecstasy and Me Hedy Lamarr 1966 1967 1973 Autobiography Banned in Australia from 1967 until 1973.[10]
The World Is Full of Married Men (1968) Jackie Collins 1968 1968 *Unknown* Novel Banned in Australia in 1968.[10]
The Stud (1969) Jackie Collins 1969 1969 *Unknown* Novel Banned in Australia in 1969.[10]
The Anarchist Cookbook William Powell 1971 *Unknown* *Unknown* Instructional Banned in Australia.[10]
How to make disposable silencers (1984) Desert and Eliezer Flores 1984 *Unknown* *Unknown* Instructional An example of a class of books banned in Australia that "promote, incite or instruct in matters of crime or violence".[17][18]
American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis 1991 1991 1992 (ages 18+) *Unknown* (younger then 18) Novel Sale and purchase was banned in the Australian State of Queensland. Now available in public libraries and for sale to people 18 years and older. Sale restricted to persons at least 18 years old in the other Australian states.[19]
A Sneaking Suspicion (1995) John Dickson 1995 2015 2015 Religious text Banned by the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities from state schools May 6, 2015 on the basis of a "potential risk to students in the delivery of this material, if not taught sensitively and in an age appropriate manner."[20] The ban was lifted May 18, 2015.
The Peaceful Pill Handbook (2007) Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart 2007 2007 2007 Instructional manual on euthanasia The book was initially restricted in Australia:[21] after review the 2007 edition was banned outright.[18][22][23]
You: An Introduction (2008) Michael Jensen 2008 2015 2015 Religious text Banned by the New South Wales Department of Education and Communities from state schools May 6, 2015 on the basis of a "potential risk to students in the delivery of this material, if not taught sensitively and in an age appropriate manner."[20] The ban was lifted May 18, 2015.
No Game No Life (Volumes 1, 2, 9) Yuu Kamiya 2012–2016 *Unknown* *Unknown* Novel Light novel volumes banned in Australia due to depiction which "in a way that is likely to cause offence to a reasonable adult, a person who is, or appears to be, a child under 18".[24]

Austria
Title Author(s) Year published Year Banned Year Unbanned Type Notes
The Sorrows of Young Werther Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1774 *Unknown* *Unknown* Novel Banned by the authorities in the Austrian territories ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy.[25]
Works Karl Marx 1841-1883 1938 *Unknown* Non-Fiction All of Marx's works were banned in Austria after the country was annexed by Nazi Germany.[25]
Works Albert Einstein 1901-1938 1938 *Unknown* Non-Fiction All of Einstein's works published up to 1938 were banned in Austria, after it was annexed by Nazi Germany.[25]
Mein Kampf (1925) Adolf Hitler 1925 Political manifesto In Austria, the Verbotsgesetz 1947 prohibits the printing of the book. It is illegal to own or distribute existing copies.[26] Following the general prohibition of advocating the Nazi Party or its aims in § 3 and of re-founding Nazi organizations in § 1, § 3 d. of the Verbotsgesetz states: "Whoever publicly or before several people, in printed works, disseminated texts or illustrations requests, encourages or seeks to induce others to commit any of the acts prohibited under § 1 or § 3, especially if for this purpose he glorifies or advertises the aims of the Nazi Party, its institutions or its actions, provided that it does not constitute a more serious criminal offense, will be punished with imprisonment from five to ten years, or up to twenty years if the offender or his actions are especially dangerous."[26]

Bangladesh
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Rangila Rasul (1927) Pandit M. A. Chamupati 1927 Religious Currently banned in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.[27]
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam. Salman received a fatwa for his alleged blasphemy [28]
Naree (1992) Humayun Azad 1992 Criticism Banned in Bangladesh in 1995.[29]
Lajja (1993) Taslima Nasrin 1993 Novel Banned in Bangladesh,[30][31] and a few states of India. Other books by her were also banned in Bangladesh or in the Indian state of West Bengal. Amar Meyebela (My Girlhood, 2002), the first volume of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladeshi government in 1999 for "reckless comments" against Islam and the prophet Mohammad.[32] Utal Hawa (Wild Wind), the second part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladesh government in 2002.[33] Ka (Speak up), the third part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladeshi High Court in 2003. Under pressure from Indian Muslim activists, the book, which was published in West Bengal as Dwikhandita, was banned there also; some 3,000 copies were seized immediately.[34] The decision to ban the book was criticised by "a host of authors" in West Bengal,[35] but the ban was not lifted until 2005.[36][37] Sei Sob Ondhokar (Those Dark Days), the fourth part of her memoir, was banned by the Bangladesh government in 2004.[38][39]

Belgium
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Uitgeverij Guggenheimer
("Guggenheimer Publishers") (1999)		 Herman Brusselmans 1999 Novel Banned in Belgium because this satirical novel offended fashion designer Ann Demeulemeester by making derogatory remarks about her personal looks and profession. A court decided the book was an insult to the individual's private life and ordered it to be removed from the stores.[40][41][42]

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Mountain Wreath (1847) Petar II Petrović-Njegoš 1847 Drama in verse Banned in Bosnian schools by Carlos Westendorp.[43]

Brazil
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Happy New Year (1975) Rubem Fonseca 1975 Fiction Banned in Brazil by the censorship during the military regime.[44]

Canada
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Droll Stories Honoré de Balzac 1837 Short stories Banned for obscenity in 1914.[45][8]
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept Elizabeth Smart 1945 Autobiographical prose poetry Banned in Canada from 1945-75 under the influence of Smart's family's political power due to its sexual documentation of Smart's affair with a married man.
The Naked and the Dead (1948) Norman Mailer 1948 Novel Banned in Canada in 1949 for "obscenity."[46]
Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov 1955 Novel Banned in Canada in 1958, though the ban was later lifted.[47]
Peyton Place (1956) Grace Metalious 1956 Novel Banned in Canada from 1956–1958.[47]
White Niggers of America (1970) Pierre Vallières 1970 Political work Deals with Québec politics and society; written while the author was incarcerated. An edition published in France was not allowed into Canada; an edition was published in the US in 1971.[48]
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century Arthur Butz 1976 Non-fiction Classified as "hate literature" in Canada with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police destroying copies as recently as 1995.[48]
Lethal Marriage Nick Pron True crime Written by a newspaper reporter about the Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka case, this book allegedly contains inaccuracies, additionally, complaints were received by the St. Catharines library board from the mother of a victim that led to the book being removed from all public library branches in the city.[48] As recently as 1999 this book was still unavailable to public library patrons in St. Catherines.[48]
Noir Canada (2008) Alain Deneault 2008 Documentary book Banned from sale in Canada following two defamation lawsuit from Barrick Gold and Banro and an out-of-court settlement.[49]

Chile
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
How to Read Donald Duck Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart 1971 Non-fiction Banned in Pinochet's Chile. The Chilean army publicly burned copies of the book.[50]
The House of the Spirits Isabel Allende 1982 Novel Banned in Pinochet's Chile.[51]
Clandestine in Chile Gabriel García Márquez 1986 Non-fiction Banned in Pinochet's Chile. On November 28, 1986, the Chilean customs authorities seized almost 15,000 copies of Clandestine in Chile, which were later burned by military authorities in Valparaíso.[52]

China
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll 1865 Children's novel/adventure Formerly banned in the province of Hunan, China, beginning in 1931,[53][54] for its portrayal of anthropomorphized animals acting on the same level of complexity as human beings. The censor General Ho Chien believed that attributing human language to animals was an insult to humans. He feared that the book would teach children to regard humans and animals on the same level, which would be "disastrous".[55]
Various works Shen Congwen 1902–1988 Novels "Denounced by the Communists and Nationalists alike, Mr. Shen saw his writings banned in Taiwan, while mainland China publishing houses burned his books and destroyed printing plates for his novels. .... So successful was the effort to erase Mr. Shen's name from the modern literary record that few younger Chinese today recognize his name, much less the breadth of his work. Only since 1978 has the Chinese Government reissued selections of his writings, although in editions of only a few thousand copies....In China, his passing was unreported."[56]
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) D. H. Lawrence 1928 Novel Chinese translation by Rao Shu-yi denied open publication by China's Central Bureau in 1936, and it ordered booksellers to stop advertising and selling the novel.[57]
Sexual Customs ("Xing Fengsu") (1989) . 1989 Non-Fiction Banned in China in 1989 for insulting Islam.[58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70]
Wild Swans (1993) Jung Chang 1993 Autobiography/biography Banned from publication in the People's Republic of China for its depiction of Mao Tse-tung.[53][71]
Zhuan Falun (1993) Li Hongzhi 1993 Spiritual Banned in Mainland China on the basis of being outside of the communist apparatus, according to Stephen Chan writing in Global Society, an international relations journal.[72]
Beijing Coma Ma Jian 2008 Novel Banned in China.[73]
Big River, Big Sea – Untold Stories of 1949 Lung Ying-tai 2009 Non-fiction It sold over 100,000 copies in Taiwan and 10,000 in Hong Kong in its first month of release, but discussion of her work was banned in mainland China following the book launch.[74]
The Sassoon Files (2019) Sons of the Singularity 2019 Role-playing game adventure A book supplement for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game set in 1920s Shanghai, all copies which had been printed and due to ship out were ordered to be destroyed by the Government of China for unspecified reasons.[75]

Denmark
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Jæger – i krig med eliten (2009) Thomas Rathsack 2009 Autobiography The Danish military tried to ban the book September 2009 for national security reasons; a court rejected the ban as the book was already leaked in the press and on the Internet.[76]

Egypt
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Feast for the Seaweeds Haidar Haidar 1983 Novel Banned in Egypt and several other Arab states, and even resulted in a belated angry reaction from the clerics of Al-Azhar University upon reprinting in Egypt in the year 2000. The clerics issued a fatwa banning the novel, and accused Haidar of heresy and offending Islam. Al-Azhar University students staged huge protests against the novel, that eventually led to its confiscation.[77][78][79]
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]

El Salvador
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
One Day of Life (1980) Manlio Argueta 1980 Novel Banned by El Salvador for its portrayal of human rights violations.[80]

Eritrea
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
I Didn't Do It for You: How the World Betrayed a Small African Nation (2005) Michela Wrong 2005 History Banned in Eritrea in 2014 for its criticism of President Isaias Afewerki[81]
My Father's Daughter (2005) Hannah Pool 2005 Fiction Banned in Eritrea in 2014 for political content[81]
Scouting for the Reaper (2014) Jacob M. Appel 2014 Fiction Banned in Eritrea in 2014 for its criticism of civil liberties under President Isaias Afewerki[81]

France
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Les Moeurs François-Vincent Toussaint Book Officially banned in France in 1748.[82]
Madame Bovary (1856) Gustave Flaubert 1856 Novel After appearing as a successful serial in the Revue de Paris Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary went on trial in France on January 30, 1857, for "offenses against public morals", but did not succeed in court.
Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov 1955 Novel French officials banned it for being "obscene".[4]
Suicide mode d'emploi (1982) Claude Guillon 1982 Instructional This book, reviewing recipes for committing suicide, was the cause of a scandal in France in the 1980s, resulting in the enactment of a law prohibiting provocation to commit suicide and propaganda or advertisement of products, objects, or methods for committing suicide.[83] Subsequent reprints were thus illegal. The book was cited by name in the debates of the French National Assembly when examining the bill.[84]

Germany
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1819 Novel Prohibited by Nazi Germany for featuring Jewish characters.[85]
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1839 Novel Prohibited by Nazi Germany for featuring Jewish characters.[85]
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1848 Political Manifesto Prohibited by several countries, Nazi Germany.[86]
Works Stefan Zweig 1900-1933 Plays, Novels, Non-Fiction All of Zweig's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year.[87]
Works Sigmund Freud 1901-1933 Non-Fiction All of Freud's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year.[87]
The Jungle (1906) Upton Sinclair 1906 Novel In 1956, it was banned in East Germany for its incompatibility with Communism.[88][89]
The Iron Heel Jack London 1908 Novel Banned by the Nazis along with two other London novels, Martin Eden and The Jacket.[87]
Works Bertolt Brecht 1918-1933 Plays, Novels, Poetry, Non-Fiction All of Brecht's books published up to 1933 were banned by the Nazis in that same year.[87]
The Outline of History H. G. Wells 1920 Non-fiction Wells' book was banned in Nazi Germany.[87]
Mein Kampf (1925) Adolf Hitler 1925 Political manifesto In Germany, the copyright of the book was held by the State Government of Bavaria, and the Bavarian authorities prevented any reprinting from 1945 onward. This did not affect existing copies, which were available as vintage books. In 2016, following the expiration of the copyright, Mein Kampf was republished in Germany for the first time since 1945 as a commented edition by the Institut für Zeitgeschichte.[90]
The World of William Clissold H. G. Wells 1926 Novel Banned in Nazi Germany in 1936. A further note to the banning order added that "all other works by the author" were to be suppressed.[91]
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1929 Anti-war novel Banned in Nazi Germany for being demoralizing and insulting to the Wehrmacht.[53][92]
The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 Children's fiction Banned in Nazi Germany.[93]
Truth for Germany—The Question of Guilt for the Second World War Udo Walendy 1968 Historical work In 1979 this book was listed by Germany's Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons as material that could not be publicly advertised or given to young readers, due to the version it presented of the events that led to World War II. This restriction was lifted in 1994, after a long legal battle.

Greece
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Lysistrata (411 BC) Aristophanes Play Banned in 1967 in Greece because of its anti-war message.[94]

Guatemala
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Mein Kampf (1925) Adolf Hitler 1925 Political manifesto Banned during the regime of Jorge Ubico.[95]
El Señor Presidente Miguel Ángel Asturias 1946 Novel Banned in Guatemala because it went against the ruling political leaders.[96]

India
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule Mohandas K. Gandhi 1909 Non-Fiction The Gujarati translation of Hind Swaraj was banned by the British authorities on its publication in India.[97]
Jugbani Kazi Nazrul Islam 1922 Collection of essays Was banned by British authorities in 1922; ban withdrawn in 1947.
Durdiner Zatri 1926 Was banned by British authorities in 1926.
Bisher Bashi 1924 Collection of poetry Was banned by British authorities in 1924; ban withdrawn in 1945.
Vangar Gaan 1924 Was banned by British authorities in 1924; ban withdrawn in 1949.
Proloy Shikha 1930 Was banned by British authorities in 1930; ban withdrawn in 1948.
Chandrabindu 1931 Collection of songs Was banned by British authorities in 1931; ban withdrawn in 1945.
Rangila Rasul (1927) Pt. Chamupati 1927 Religious Currently banned in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.[27]
Angaray[98] Sajjad Zaheer, Ahmed Ali, Rashid Jahan, and Mahmud-uz-Zafar 1932 Progressive short stories Banned in India in 1936 by the British government.[99]
The Heart of India (1958) Alexander Campbell 1958 Fiction Banned by the Indian government in 1959 on grounds of being "repulsive".[100]
Nine Hours To Rama (1962) Stanley Wolpert 1962 Novel Banned in India. It exposes persons responsible for security lapses that led to Mahatma Gandhi's assassination.[101]
Unarmed Victory (1963) Bertrand Russell 1963 Banned in India. Contains unflattering details of the 1962 Sino-Indian War.[101]
An Area of Darkness V. S. Naipaul 1964 Travelogue Banned in India for its negative portrayal of India and its people.[100]
Understanding Islam through Hadis (1982) Ram Swarup 1982 Critique of political Islam Banned in India for its critique of political Islam. The Hindi translation was banned in 1991, the English original was banned in 1992.[102][103][104][105][106][107]
Smash and Grab: Annexation of Sikkim (1984) Sunanda K. Datta-Ray 1984 History Banned in India. Describes the process of the annexation of the Buddhist kingdom of Sikkim by the Indian government of Indira Gandhi in 1975.[101]
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]
Soft Target: How the Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada (1989) Zuhair Kashmeri & Brian McAndrew 1989 Investigative journalism Banned in India.[108]
The True Furqan (1999) "Al Saffee" and "Al Mahdee" 1999 Religious text Import into India prohibited on the grounds of threatening national security.[109]
Islam – A Concept of Political World Invasion (2003) R. V. Bhasin 2003 Political ideology Banned in Maharashtra, India in 2007, after its publishing on grounds that it promotes communal disharmony between Hindus and Muslims.[110]
Shivaji – Hindu King in Islamic India (2003) James Laine 2003 History Banned in Indian state of Maharashtra in 2004 for "promoting social enmity"; ban overturned by Bombay High Court in 2007.[111]
Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence (2009) Jaswant Singh 2009 Biography Temporarily banned in Gujarat, India in August 2009.[112] The ban was overturned by the Gujarat High Court in December 2009.[113]
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India (2011) Joseph Lelyveld 2011 Biography Currently banned in Gujarat, a state in western India, for suggesting that Mahatma Gandhi had a homosexual relationship. Gujarat's state assembly voted unanimously in favour of the ban in April 2011.[114]

Indonesia
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Fugitive (Perburuan) (1950) Pramoedya Ananta Toer 1950 Novel Banned in Indonesia in 1950, for containing "subversive" material, including an attempt to promote Marxist–Leninist thought and other Communist theories. As of 2006, the ban is still in effect.[115]
All Chinese literature 1967 Literature and Culture Presidential Instruction No. 14/1967 (Inpres No. 14/1967) on Chinese Religion, Beliefs, and Traditions effectively banned any Chinese literature in Indonesia, including the prohibition of Chinese characters.
Interest Kevin Gaughen 2015 Novel Banned by the government of Indonesia for subversive and/or anti-government themes.

Iran
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]
The Gods Laugh on Mondays (1995) Reza Khoshnazar 1995 Novel Was banned in Iran after men torched its publication house.[116]

Ireland
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Christianity not Mysterious John Toland 1696 Non-Fiction Banned by the Irish Parliament for contradicting the teaching of the Anglican Church. Copies of the book were burnt by the public hangman in Dublin.[117]
Droll Stories Honoré de Balzac 1837 Short stories Banned for obscenity in 1953. The ban was lifted in 1967.[8]
Married Love Marie Stopes 1918 Non-Fiction Banned by the Irish Censorship Board for discussing birth control.[118]
And Quiet Flows the Don Mikhail Sholokhov 1928–1940 Novel Sequence The English translations of Sholokhov's work were banned for "indecency".[119]
Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis 1927 Novel Elmer Gantry was banned in the Irish Free State.[120]
The House of Gold Liam O'Flaherty 1929 Novel The first book to be banned by the Irish Free State for alleged "indecency". Republished in 2013.[121]
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 Novel Suppressed in the Irish Free State.[119]
Marriage and Morals Bertrand Russell 1929 Non-Fiction Suppressed in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education, birth control and open marriages.[119]
Commonsense and the Child Ethel Mannin 1931 Non-Fiction Banned in the Irish Free State for advocating sex education for adolescents.[119]
The Bulpington of Blup H. G. Wells 1932 Novel Banned in the Irish Free State.[120]
Brave New World Aldous Huxley 1932 Novel Banned in Ireland in 1932, allegedly because of references of sexual promiscuity.[118]
The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind H. G. Wells 1932 Non-Fiction Banned in the Irish Free State.[120]
Men of Good Will Jules Romains 1932–1946 Novel Sequence The English translations of Romains' novel sequence were banned in the Irish Free State.[119]
The Martyr Liam O'Flaherty 1933 Novel Banned in the Irish Free State.[120]
The Laws of Life Halliday Sutherland 1935 Non-Fiction Banned in the Irish Free State for discussing sex education and Calendar-based contraceptive methods – even though The Laws of Life had been granted a Cum permissu superiorum endorsement by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster.[122]
Honourable Estate Vera Brittain 1936 Novel Banned in the Irish Free State.[119]
I Knock at the Door Seán O'Casey 1939 Autobiography Banned in the Ireland.[122]
Dutch Interior Frank O'Connor 1940 Novel Banned in the Ireland.[122]
The Tailor and Ansty Eric Cross 1942 Non-Fiction Banned by the Irish censors for discussing sexuality in rural Ireland.[123]
Borstal Boy Brendan Behan 1958 Autobiographical novel Banned in Ireland in 1958. The Irish Censorship of Publications Board was not obliged to reveal its reason but it is believed that it was rejected for its critique of Irish republicanism and the Catholic Church, and its depiction of adolescent sexuality.[15]
The Country Girls Edna O'Brien 1960 Novel Banned by Ireland's censorship board in 1960 for its explicit sexual content.[124][125]
The Lonely Girl (1962) Edna O'Brien 1962 Novel Banned in Ireland in 1962 after Archbishop John Charles McQuaid complained personally to Justice Minister Charles Haughey that it "was particularly bad".[125]
The Dark John McGahern 1965 Novel Banned in Ireland for obscenity.[126]
My Secret Garden Nancy Friday 1973 Non-Fiction Banned in Ireland for its sexual content.[127]

Italy
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque 1928 Fiction Banned in Fascist Italy because of its antimilitarism.[128]
A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway 1929 Fiction Banned in Fascist Italy for depicting the Italian Army's defeat at the Battle of Caporetto.[129]

Japan
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Little Black Sambo (1899) Helen Bannerman 1899 Children's story Banned in Japan (1988–2005) to quell "political threats to boycott Japanese cultural exports", although the pictures were not those of the original version.[130]

Kenya
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]

Kuwait
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]

Lebanon
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Sophie's Choice (1979) William Styron 1979 Novel Banned in Lebanon for its positive depiction of Jews.[53]
Schindler's Ark (1982) Thomas Keneally 1982 Novel Banned in Lebanon for its positive depiction of Jews.[53]
The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 2003 Novel Banned in September 2004 in Lebanon after Catholic leaders deemed it offensive to Christianity. (See Inaccuracies in The Da Vinci Code.)[53][131]

Liberia
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]

Malaysia
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]
Onward Muslim Soldiers Robert Spencer 2003 Non-fiction On July 12, 2007, the government of Malaysia announced a ban on Spencer's book, citing "confusion and anxiety among the Muslims" as the cause.[132]
Fifty Shades Trilogy E L James 2011-12 Novel The entire trilogy was banned in Malaysia from 2015 for containing "sadistic" material and "threat to morality".[133]
The Mask of Sanity (2017) Jacob M. Appel 2017 Novel Banned preemptively in Malaysia for blasphemy.[134]
Rebirth: Reformasi, Resistance, and Hope in New Malaysia Kean Wong 2020 Non- fiction Banned for containing insulting elements to the Malaysian Coat of Arms which is likely to be prejudicial to public order, security, national interest, alarm public opinion and contrary to any law, and therefore is “absolutely prohibited throughout Malaysia".[135]
Gay is OK! A Christian Perspective Boon Lin Ngeo 2013 Non-fiction Banned for attempting to promote homosexual culture in Malaysia, which goes against religious and cultural sensitivities in the country.[136]
Peichi (Tamil: ''பேய்ச்சி'') Ma. Naveen 2020 Novel Banned for containing pornographic and immoral content.[137]

Notably, it was the first Tamil language publication to be banned in the country.

Morocco
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Notre ami le roi (1993) Gilles Perrault 1993 Biography of Hassan II of Morocco Banned in Morocco. This book is a biography of King Hassan and examines cases of torture, killing, and political imprisonment said to have been carried out by the Moroccan Government at his orders.[138]
Le roi prédateur (2012) Catherine Graciet and Éric Laurent 2012 Investigative Journalism Banned in Morocco. This book makes allegedly "defamatory" accusations of corruption against Mohammed VI of Morocco, after investigating the exponential growth of his wealth.[139][140]

Netherlands
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Cover-up General Edwin Giltay 2014 Non-fiction thriller Banned in the Netherlands by court order in 2015 as a former spy of Dutch military intelligence claimed she was described falsely in this Srebrenica book.[141] Ban lifted by the Court of Appeal of The Hague in 2016.[142][143]

New Zealand
Main article: List of books banned in New Zealand
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov 1955 Novel Banned for being "obscene"; uncensored in 1964.[4]
Borstal Boy Brendan Behan 1958 Autobiographical novel Banned shortly after its ban in Ireland in 1958. It was allowed to be published in New Zealand in 1963.[15]
The Peaceful Pill Handbook (2007) Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart 2007 Instructional manual on euthanasia Initially banned in New Zealand by Office of Film & Literature Classification since it was deemed to be objectionable.[144] In May 2008 an edited version of the book was allowed for sale if sealed and an indication of the censorship classification was displayed.
Into the River (2012) Ted Dawe 2012 Novel Banned in New Zealand in 2015; subsequently unrestricted in the same year.[145]

Nigeria
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
My Watch (2005) Olusegun Obasanjo 2014 Autobiography Banned in Nigeria because this three-volume memoirs of the former Nigerian president were highly critical of nearly everyone in Nigerian politics. The books were ordered to be seized by the High Court in Nigeria until a libel case had been heard in court.[146]

North Korea

All foreign books as well as almost all foreign products (regardless of content) are banned in North Korea.

Norway
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Snorri the Seal (1941) Frithjof Sælen 1941 Fable Satirical book banned during the German occupation of Norway.[147]

Pakistan
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Satyarth Prakash Dayananda Saraswati 1875 Religious text Swami Dayananda's religious text Satyarth Prakash was banned in some princely states and in Sindh in 1944 and is still banned in Sindh.[148]
Rangila Rasul (1927) Pt. Chamupati 1927 Religious Currently banned in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.[27]
Jinnah of Pakistan (1982) Stanley Wolpert 1982 Biography Banned in 1984 by the military dictator Zia-ul-Haq's government because of some 'offending passages'. Ban lifted in 1989 by the next democratic government. [149]
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]
The Truth About Muhammad Robert Spencer 2006 Non-fiction On December 20, 2006, the government of Pakistan announced a ban on Spencer's book, citing "objectionable material" as the cause.[150]

Papal States
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
On the Origins and Perpetual Use of the Legislative Powers of the Apostolic Kings of Hungary in Matters Ecclesiastical (1764) Adam F. Kollár 1764 Political Banned in the Papal States for arguments against the political role of the Roman Catholic Church.[151] Original title: De Originibus et Usu perpetuo.

Papua New Guinea
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]

Philippines
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Noli Me Tángere Jose Rizal 1887 Novel Banned by Spanish colonial authorities in the Philippines due to being critical to the Spanish government.[152]
El Filibusterismo Jose Rizal 1891 Novel
The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos Primitivo Mijares 1976 Non-Fiction Banned for during the Martial Law period due to being critical of the administration of President Ferdinand Marcos.[153]
The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos Carmen Navarro Pedrosa Biography Banned in 1972, shortly after the start of the Martial Law period under President Ferdinand Marcos. The "unauthorized" biography was banned for the depiction of First Lady Imelda Marcos' extravagance.[153]

Poland
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Mirror of the Polish Crown (1618) Sebastian Miczyński 1618 Anti-Semitic pamphlet Because this pamphlet published in 1618 was one of the causes of the anti-Jewish riots in Cracow, it was banned by Sigismund III Vasa.[154]
Mein Kampf (1925) Adolf Hitler 1925 Political manifesto Banned until 1992.[53]

Portugal
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
História do Mundo para as Crianças (pt) Monteiro Lobato 1933 Novel The books was banned by the Portuguese government without any clear reason. According to the author, one possible reason was because he was from the "current of thought what claims that the discovery of Brazil happened 'by random'" or by the fact he "have registered the history of the 1600 ears cut to the Arabian navy by Vasco da Gama".[155]
New Portuguese Letters
(Novas Cartas Portuguesas)		 Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa 1972 Banned as "pornographic and an offense to public morals"; authors charged with "abuse of the freedom of the press" and "outrage to public decency"; acquitted after the Carnation Revolution in 1974[156]

Qatar
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Boys Garth Ennis 2012 Comic book series Banned in Qatar in 2012.[157]
The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up (2012) Jacob M. Appel 2012 Novel Banned in Qatar in 2014 for its depiction of Islam.[158]
Love Comes Later (2014) Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar 2014 Novel Banned in Qatar.[159]

Roman Empire
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Thalia Arius (AD 250 or 256 – 336) Theological tract, partly in verse Banned in the Roman Empire in the 330s+ for contradicting Trinitarianism. All of Arius writings were ordered burned and Arius exiled, and presumably assassinated for his writings.[160] Banned by the Catholic Church for the next thousand plus years.

Russia
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
New World Translation Many 1961 Bible Translation In 2015, Russia banned import of the Jehovah's Witnesses' New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.[161][162]
Quran revealed to Muhammad Religious text As with many holy books, the Quran has been subject to scrutiny and censorship at various points throughout history. Proposals and movements advocating outright bans of the Quran are uncommon in the West, occurring only among extremist right-wing circles.[163] In 1985, Chandmal Chopra filed a writ Petition at the Kolkata High Court in India, trying to obtain an order banning the Quran.[164] The most notable recent (and controversial) ban of a translated edition of the Quran happened in 2013 when a Russian court censored the text under the country's 'extremism' laws.[165]
Rights of Man (1791) Thomas Paine 1791 Political theory Banned in Tsarist Russia after the Decembrist revolt.[166]
The Communist Manifesto Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 1848 Political Manifesto Prohibited by several countries, including Tsarist Russia.[86]
Works Friedrich Nietzsche 1872-1901 Non-fiction Banned in Soviet Union since 1923 on proposal of Nadezhda Krupskaya. All works were placed on the list of forbidden books and kept in libraries only for restricted, authorized use.[167]
Looking Backward Edward Bellamy 1888 Novel Prohibited by the Tsarist Russian censors.[168]
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (1903) Unknown 1903 A forgery, portraying an alleged Jewish conspiracy to take over the world Banned in various libraries and many attempts to ban in various nations, such as in Russia.
Mein Kampf (1925) Adolf Hitler 1925 Political manifesto Banned in the Russian Federation as extremist.[169]
Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 Political novella Completed in 1943, Orwell found that no publisher would print the book, due to its criticism of the USSR, an important ally of Britain in the War.[170] Once published, the book was banned in the USSR and other communist countries.[171]
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) George Orwell 1949 Novel Banned by the Soviet Union[53] in 1950, as Stalin understood that it was a satire based on his leadership. It was not until 1990 that the Soviet Union legalised the book and it was re-released after editing.[172]
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak 1955-1988 Novel Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988 for criticizing life in Russia after the Russian Revolution. When its author, Boris Pasternak, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was forced to reject it under government pressure.[53]
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (1962) Alexander Solzhenitsyn 1962 Novel Banned from publication in the Soviet Union in 1964.[115]
The First Circle (1968) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1968 Novel After Nikita Khrushchev was removed from power in 1964, all extant and forthcoming works by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn were banned in the Soviet Union. This work details the lives of scientists forced to work in a Stalinist research center.[173]
The Gulag Archipelago (1973) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 1973 Non-fiction Banned in the Soviet Union because it went against the image the Soviet Government tried to project of itself and its policies.[174] However, it has been available in the former Soviet Union since at least the 1980s. In 2009, the Education Ministry of Russia added The Gulag Archipelago to the curriculum for high-school students.[175]
Apocalypse Culture Adam Parfrey 1987 Non-fiction Collection of articles, interviews, and documents that explore the various marginal aspects of culture. It was banned in Russia in July 2006 by court order for propaganda of drug use, owing to inclusion of David Woodard's essay "The Ketamine Necromance," after its first and only Russian publication by Ultra.Kultura (Ультра.Культура). All printed copies of that Russian edition were destroyed.

Saudi Arabia
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Queen of Sheba and Biblical Scholarship Bernard Leeman History Currently banned in Saudi Arabia for suggesting the Hebrews originated in Yemen and their Israelite successors established their original pre-586 B.C.E. kingdoms of Israel and Judah between Medina and Yemen.
Goat Days Benyamin & Joseph Koyippally 2008 Novel Currently banned in Saudi Arabia.[176][177]

Senegal
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]

Singapore
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Value, Price and Profit Karl Marx 1865 Non-fiction Banned under the Internal Security (Prohibition of Publications) (Consolidation) Order.[178]
Origin of Family, Private Property and State Friedrich Engels 1884 Non-fiction
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back Vladimir Lenin 1904 Non-fiction
Theories of Surplus Value Karl Marx 1905 Non-fiction
Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution Vladimir Lenin 1905 Non-fiction
Anarchism or Socialism? Joseph Stalin 1907 Non-fiction
Fundamental Problems of Marxism Georgi Plekhanov 1908 Political pamphlet
Heroines of the Modern Progress Elmer C. Adams 1913 Non-fiction
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination Vladimir Lenin 1914 Non-fiction
What Is to Be Done? Vladimir Lenin 1917 Non-fiction
Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism Vladimir Lenin 1917 Non-fiction
State and Revolution Vladimir Lenin 1917 Non-fiction
The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky Vladimir Lenin 1918 Non-fiction
Friedrich Engels: A Biography Gustav Mayer 1920 Biography
"Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder Vladimir Lenin 1920 Non-fiction
On Cooperation Vladimir Lenin 1923 Non-fiction
Problems of Leninism Joseph Stalin 1926 Non-fiction
Time, Forward! Valentin Katayev 1932 Novel
How the Steel Was Tempered Nikolai Ostrovsky 1936 Novel
Marxism and the National and Colonial Question Joseph Stalin 1937 Non-fiction
Combat Liberalism Mao Zedong 1937 Non-fiction
The A to Z of the Soviet Union Alex Page 1946 Non-fiction
Aspects of China's Anti-Japanese Struggle Mao Zedong 1948 Non-fiction
The Case for Communism William Gallacher 1949 Non-fiction
Twilight of World Capitalism William Z. Foster 1949 Non-fiction
Concerning Marxism in Linguistics Joseph Stalin 1950 Non-fiction
The Social and State Structure of the USSR Alexander Karpinsky 1952 Non-fiction
The Satanic Verses Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]
What Islam Is All About Yahiya Emerick 1997 Religious education Banned under the Undesirable Publications (Prohibition) (Amendment) Order 2018.[179]
The Wisdom of Jihad Abuhuraira Abdurrahman 2005 Non-fiction
Things that Nullify One's Islaam Shaykh al-Islaam Muhammad ibn ‘Abdil-Wahhaab 2013 Non-fiction

South Africa
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Frankenstein (1818) Mary Shelley 1818 Novel Banned in apartheid South Africa in 1955 for containing "obscene" or "indecent" material.[94]
"The Lottery" (1948) Shirley Jackson 1948 Short story Banned in South Africa during Apartheid.[180]
Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov 1955 Novel Banned for being "obscene".[4]
A World of Strangers Nadine Gordimer 1958 Novel Banned in South Africa because of its criticism of Apartheid.[181]
Why We Can't Wait Martin Luther King Jr. 1964 Non-Fiction Banned in South Africa because of its criticism of white supremacy.[182]
The First Book of Africa Langston Hughes 1964 Non-Fiction; Children's book Banned in South Africa for its celebration of Black African culture.[182]
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X with Alex Haley 1965 Non-Fiction Banned in South Africa because of its criticism of white supremacy.[182]
Black Power: The Politics of Liberation Stokely Carmichael and Charles V. Hamilton 1967 Non-Fiction Banned in South Africa because of its criticism of white supremacy.[182]
Soul on Ice Eldridge Cleaver 1968 Non-Fiction Banned in South Africa because of its criticism of white supremacy, and its sexual content.[182]
The Satanic Bible (1969) Anton LaVey 1969 Religious text Banned during apartheid in South Africa from 1973 to 1993 for moral reasons.[183]
The Struggle Is My Life Nelson Mandela 1978 Non-fiction Banned in Apartheid South Africa until 1990.[184]
Burger's Daughter Nadine Gordimer 1979 Novel Banned in South Africa in July 1979 for going against the government's racial policies; the ban was reversed in October of the same year.[115]
July's People (1981) Nadine Gordimer 1981 Novel Banned during the Apartheid-era in South Africa.[185] July's People is now included in the South African school curriculum.[186]

South Korea
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Year 501: The Conquest Continues (1993) Noam Chomsky 1993 Politics Banned for distribution in South Korean military as one of 23 books banned on August 1, 2008.[187]
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism Ha-Joon Chang 2008 Non-fiction One of 23 books which from August 1, 2008 onward is banned for distribution within the South Korean military.[187]
One Spoon on This Earth Hyun Ki-young 1999 Novel Banned for distribution within the South Korean military for being "pro-North Korea".[187] It was one of 23 books banned there beginning in August 2008.[187][188]

Spain
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Bible see Authorship of the Bible see Dating the Bible Religious text The Bible in Spanish was prohibited in Spain from the sixteenth until the nineteenth century.[189] In 1234, King James I of Aragon ordered the burning of Bibles in the vernacular.[190]
Works Johannes Kepler 1596–1634 Non-Fiction Banned by Habsburg Monarchy of Spain for perceived heresy.[191]
Works Voltaire 1727–1778 Novels, Plays, Non-Fiction Voltaire's entire body of work was banned by the Bourbon Monarchy of Spain, after it was condemned by the Spanish Inquisition.[192]
Works Vicente Blasco Ibáñez 1892–1928 Novels, Non-Fiction All of Blasco Ibáñez's books were banned by the Franco government in 1939.[193]
A Short History of the World H. G. Wells 1922 Non-Fiction An expanded, Spanish-language translation of A Short History of the World, discussing recent world events, was banned by Spanish censors in 1940. This edition of A Short History was not published in Spain until 1963. In two 1948 reports, Spanish censors gave a list of objections to the books's publication. These were that the book "shows socialist inclinations, attacks the Catholic Church, gives a twisted interpretation of the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish National Movement, and contains 'tortuous concepts'." [194]
Ulysses James Joyce 1922 Novel The complete 1945 Spanish-language translation of Ulysses was suppressed by the Spanish authorities until 1962.[195]
The Story of Ferdinand Munro Leaf 1936 Children's fiction Banned in Francoist Spain.[93]
Homage to Catalonia George Orwell 1938 Non-Fiction Banned in Francoist Spain for its support of the Republican faction during the Spanish Civil War.[196]
For Whom The Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway 1940 Novel Suppressed by the Spanish authorities until 1968.[197]
Works Federico García Lorca 1939 Poetry, drama Banned until 1954; published in Argentina.[198]
You Can't Be Too Careful H. G. Wells 1941 Novel Banned in Francoist Spain for criticizing Christianity, and for mentioning the Bombing of Guernica by the Axis air forces.[199]
The Spanish Labyrinth Gerald Brenan 1943 Non-Fiction Banned in Francoist Spain because of its strong criticism of the Nationalist Faction's actions during the Spanish Civil War.[200]
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir 1949 Non-Fiction Banned in Francoist Spain for its advocacy of feminism.[201]
The Hive Camilo José Cela 1950 Fiction Banned by censors of Francoist Spain.[202]
The Spanish Civil War Hugh Thomas 1961 Non-Fiction Banned by censors of Francoist Spain for its negative depiction of the Nationalist Faction during the Civil War, and its critique of the Franco regime.[203]
The Death of Lorca Ian Gibson 1971 Biography Banned briefly in Spain.[204]

Sri Lanka
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]

Tanzania
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]

Taiwan
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Various works Shen Congwen 1902–1988 Novels "Denounced by the Communists and Nationalists alike, Mr. Shen saw his writings banned in Taiwan, while mainland China publishing houses burned his books and destroyed printing plates for his novels."[56]

Thailand
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Devil's Discus Rayne Kruger 1964 Non-fiction Banned in Thailand in 2006.[205]
The Satanic Verses (1988) Salman Rushdie 1988 Novel Banned for blasphemy against Islam.[28]
The King Never Smiles (2006) Paul M. Handley 2006 Biography Banned in Thailand for its criticism of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.[206]

United Arab Emirates
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 Political novella In 2002, the novel was banned in the schools of the United Arab Emirates, because it contained text or images that go against Islamic values, most notably an anthropomorphic, talking pig. However, the ban has subsequently been lifted.[115]
Goat Days Benyamin & Joseph Koyippally 2008 Novel The book is banned in UAE.[176][207]

United Kingdom
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Areopagitica John Milton 1644 Essay Banned in the Kingdom of England for political reasons.[208]
Rights of Man (1791) Thomas Paine 1791 Political theory Banned in the UK and author charged with treason for supporting the French Revolution.[94]
Despised and Rejected Rose Laure Allatini (under the pseudonym A. T. Fitzroy) 1918 Novel Banned under the UK's Defence of the Realm Act for criticizing Britain's involvement in World War One, and for sympathetically depicting male homosexuality.[209]
Ulysses (1922) James Joyce 1922 Novel Banned in the UK until 1936.[210][211]
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) D. H. Lawrence 1928 Novel Temporarily banned in the United Kingdom for violation of obscenity laws; the ban was lifted in 1960, respectively.[8]
The Well of Loneliness (1928) Radclyffe Hall 1928 Novel Banned in the UK in 1928 for its lesbian theme; republished in 1949.[212]
Boy James Hanley 1931 Novel Banned in 1934 after Hanley's publisher Boriswood lost a court case against a charge of obscenity.[213]
Lolita (1955) Vladimir Nabokov 1955 Novel Banned for being "obscene".[4]
Spycatcher (1985) Peter Wright 1985 Autobiography Banned in the UK 1985–1988 for revealing secrets. Wright was a former MI5 intelligence officer and his book was banned before it was even published in 1987.[214][215]
Lord Horror (1990) David Britton 1990 Novel Banned in England in 1991 where it was found obscene; it is currently the last book to be banned in the UK. The judge ordered the remaining print run to be destroyed. The ban was lifted in the Appeal Court in July 1992 but the book remains out of print.[216]

United States
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio 1353 Story collection Banned from US mail under the Federal Anti-Obscenity Act (Comstock Law) of 1873, which banned the sending or receiving of works containing "obscene," "filthy," or "inappropriate" material.[94]
The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer late 14th century Story collection Banned from US mail under the Federal Anti-Obscenity Act (Comstock Law) of 1873, which banned the sending or receiving of works containing "obscene," "filthy," or "inappropriate" material. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [217] [218][94]
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption (1650) William Pynchon 1650 Religious critique The first book banned in the New World. Pynchon, a prominent leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who, in 1636, founded the City of Springfield, Massachusetts, wrote this explicit critique of Puritanism, published in London in 1650. That year, several copies made their way back to the New World. Pynchon, who resided in Springfield, was unaware that his book suffered the New World's first book burning, on the Boston Common. Accused of heresy by the Massachusetts General Court, Pynchon quietly transferred ownership of the Connecticut River Valley's largest land-holdings to his son, and then suffered indignities as he left the New World for England. It was the first work banned in Boston.[219]
Moll Flanders or The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders (1722) Daniel Defoe 1722 Novel Banned from US mail under the Federal Anti-Obscenity Act (Comstock Law) of 1873, which banned the sending or receiving of works containing "obscene," "filthy," or "inappropriate" material. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [220] [221] [222]
Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure John Cleland 1748 Novel Banned in the US in 1821 for obscenity, then again in 1963. This was the last book ever banned by the US government. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [223] [224][92] See also Memoirs v. Massachusetts. However other books have been banned since by court orders.
Candide Voltaire 1759 Novel Seized by US Customs in 1930 for obscenity. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [225] [226][94]
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) Harriet Beecher Stowe 1852 Novel Banned in the Confederate States during the Civil War because of its anti-slavery content. In 1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin was banned in Russia in the reign of Nicholas I because of the idea of equality it presented, and for its "undermining religious ideals."[115]
Elmer Gantry Sinclair Lewis 1927 Novel Banned in Boston, Massachusetts, Kansas City, Missouri, Camden, New Jersey and other US cities, this novel by Sinclair focused on religiosity and hypocrisy in the United States during the 1920s by depicting a preacher (the Reverend Dr. Elmer Gantry) as a protagonist who preferred easy money, alcohol, and "enticing young girls" to saving souls, while converting a traveling tent revival crusade into a profitable and permanent evangelical church and radio empire for his employers. Elmer Gantry also widely denounced from pulpits across the United States at the time of its initial publication. U.S. obscenity laws were overturned in 1959 by the Supreme Court in Kingsley Pictures Corp. v. Regents. [227] [228][229][230]
Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928) D. H. Lawrence 1928 Novel Temporarily banned in the United States for violation of obscenity laws; the ban was lifted in 1959.[8]
Tropic of Cancer (1934) Henry Miller 1934 Novel (fictionalized memoir) Banned in the US in the 1930s until the early 1960s, seized by US Customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the US.[231] Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s.
The Grapes of Wrath (1939) John Steinbeck 1939 Novel Was temporarily banned in many places in the US. In the state of California in which it was partially set, it was banned for its alleged unflattering portrayal of residents of the area.[232]
Forever Amber (1944) Kathleen Winsor 1944 Novel Banned in fourteen states in the US. Ban was lifted by an appeals court judge.[13][14]
Memoirs of Hecate County (1946) Edmund Wilson 1946 Novel Banned in the United States until 1959.
Howl (1955) Allen Ginsberg 1955 Poem Copies of the first edition seized by San Francisco Customs for obscenity in March 1957; after trial, obscenity charges were dismissed.[233]
Naked Lunch (1959) William S. Burroughs 1959 Novel Banned by Boston courts in 1962 for obscenity, but that decision was reversed in 1966 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.[234]
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paulo Freire 1968 Educative Theory Banned in Arizona
United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense (1971) Robert McNamara and the United States Department of Defense 1971 Government study Also known as the Pentagon Papers. US President Nixon attempted to suspend publication of classified information. The restraint was lifted by the US Supreme Court in a 6–3 decision.[235] See also New York Times Co. v. United States.
The Federal Mafia Irwin Schiff 1992 Non-fiction An injunction was issued by a US District Court in Nevada under 26 U.S.C. § 7408 against Irwin Schiff and associates Cynthia Neun and Lawrence Cohen, against the sale of this book by those persons as the court found that the information it contains is fraudulent[236]
60 Years Later: Coming through the Rye John David California 2009 Novel An unauthorized sequel to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger succeeded in obtaining a court injunction which indefinitely banned the publication, advertising or distribution of the book in the United States, though it has been published in other countries.
Operation Dark Heart (2010) Army Reserve Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer 2010 Memoir In September 2010 the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) overrode the Army's January approval for publication. The DoD then purchased and destroyed all 9,500 first edition copies, citing concerns that it contained classified information which could damage national security. The publisher, St. Martin's Press,[237] in conjunction with the DoD created a second, redacted edition; which contains blacked out words, lines, paragraphs, and portions of the index.[238]

Uzbekistan
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
All Hamid Ismailov - Novels, poems, journalist writing Author in exile since 1994 and all his works are banned for being critical of the government.[239][240][241]

Vietnam
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
Animal Farm George Orwell 1945 Political novella Censored in Vietnam.
Paradise of the Blind Duong Thu Huong 1988 Novel, Literary fiction Censored in Vietnam for criticism on the political party in control.

Yugoslavia
Title Author(s) Year published Type Notes
The Nickel-Plated-Feet Gang During the Occupation
(Les Pieds nickelés dans le maquis)		 Successors of Louis Forton 1879–1934 Comic book Banned in Yugoslavia by court order in 1945.[242]
About a Silence in Literature Živorad Stojković Essay Banned in Yugoslavia by court order in 1951.[242]
The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System (1957) Milovan Đilas 1957 Banned in Yugoslavia by court order in 1957; author sentenced for enemy propaganda to seven years in prison, prolonged to 13 years in 1962.[243]
Curved River Živojin Pavlović 1963 Story collection In 1963 in Yugoslavia withdrawn by the publisher (Nolit) at request of SDB officials.[243]
Dictionary of Modern Serbo-Croatian Language Miloš Moskovljević Dictionary Banned in Yugoslavia by court order in 1966, at request of Mirko Tepavac, because "some definitions can cause disturbance among citizens".[243]
A Message to Man and Humanity Aleksandar Cvetković Banned in Yugoslavia by court order in 1967 for "false and wicked claims, and enemy propaganda that supports pro-Chinese politics".[243]
On Fierce Wound – Fierce Herb Ratko Zakić Withdrawn from sales and destroyed after the decision of the Municipal Committee of the League of Communists of Kraljevo in Kraljevo, Yugoslavia in 1967.[243]
Thoughts of a Corpse Prvoslav Vujčić Poems Banned in Yugoslavia by court order in 1983; republished in 2004.[242]
Storytellers II Boško Novaković Short stories Withdrawn from print in Yugoslavia in 1964 because it contained stories by Dragiša Vasić.[243]
Castration of the Wind Prvoslav Vujčić Poems Written in Tuzla prison in 1984. Banned in Yugoslavia by court order in 1984; republished in 2005.[242]

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