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List of banned books

Many societies have banned certain books. This is a partial list of books that have been banned.

Various scriptures have been banned (and sometimes burned) at several points in history. The Bible, the Qur'an, and other religious scriptures have all been subjected to censorship and have been banned in various cities and countries. In Medieval Europe, the Roman Catholic Church created a program that lasted until 1966 to deal with dissenting printed opinion; it was called the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (index of prohibited books). Over the years many books based on the scriptures have also been banned, such as Leo Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God is Within You, which was banned in Russia for being anti-establishment.

Books deemed critical of the state or its interests are another common target for banning.

Books that deal with criminal matter have also been subjected to censorship. Small-press titles that have become infamous by being banned include The Anarchist Cookbook, and Hit Man.

In the four-volume series Banned Books, the volumes were divided by grounds for banning: political, religious, sexual and social. The first three are often cited together as taboo in polite conversation.

Notably, children's books that deal with death or other teenage angst or various crimes often find themselves banned perhaps because of parental worries about teenage suicide or copycat crimes. Many publications are targeted on the premise that children would be corrupted by reading them. This fear led to the creation of the Comics Code Authority in 1954.

List of banned books

A

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll	Children's Novel/Adventure	Banned in China (1931) for the portrayal of Anthropomorphized animals acting on the same level as humans.
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	Anti-war novel	Banned in Nazi Germany for demoralizing and insulting the Wehrmacht.
Andersonville	MacKinlay Kantor	Novel	Banned in many places in the United States for obscenities and for promoting immorality.
Animal Farm	George Orwell	Political novella	Publication delayed in UK because of anti-Stalin theme. Confiscated in Germany by Allied troops. Banned in 1946 in Yugoslavia. Also banned in Kenya in 1991 and in the United Arab Emirates in 2002.
Areopagitica	John Milton	Essay	Banned in England for political reasons.
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	Novel	Banned in Kentucky for language and for being anti-Christian.
Angaray	Sajjad Zaheer	Progressive short stories	Banned in 1936 by the British government

B

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	Novel	Was banned in South Africa in 1955 because of the use of the word 'black' in the title.
Burger's Daughter	Nadine Gordimer	Novel	Banned in South Africa in 1979 for going against the government's racial policies.

C

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	Novel	Challenged and removed from several schools in the USA because the main character exhibits behavior deemed "inappropriate".
Call of the Wild	Jack London	Novel	Banned in Yugoslavia, and Italy.
Candide	Voltaire	Novel	Seized by US Customs in 1930 for obscenity.

D

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Da Vinci Code	Dan Brown	Novel	Banned in Lebanon after Catholic leaders deemed it offensive to Christianity.
The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys	Chris Fuhrman	Novel	Banned in many schools in the United States because of sexual content, and strong language including racial slurs.
The Death of Lorca	Ian Gibson	Biography, True crime	Banned briefly in Spain.
Decent Interval	Frank Snepp	Nonfiction	Banned in the US because the author had published material that, as a former CIA employee, he was not allowed to publish.
Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	Novel	Banned within the USSR until 1988 for its criticism of the Bolshevik Party.
Droll Stories	Honore de Balzac		Banned in Canada in 1914.

E

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
El Señor Presidente	Miguel Angel Asturias	Novel	Banned in Guatemala because it went against the ruling political leaders.

F

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	Novel
The Federal Mafia	Irwin Schiff	Nonfiction	An injunction was issued by a U.S. District Court in Nevada under 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.
The Freedom Writers Diary	The Freedom Writers	Nonfiction	Banned for sexual content.
The Fugitive (Perburuan)	Pramoedya Ananta Toer	Novel	Banned in Indonesia for being too communistic and for other political reasons.

G

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	Novel	Written in 1996, claimed to be portraying intereligion occasional sex scenes involving a Christian woman and low caste-Hindu servant. Ban overturned in India.
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	Novel	Banned in many places in the US. In the region of California in which it was partially set, it was banned because it made the residents of this region look bad.
The Gulag Archipelago	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Nonfiction	Banned in the Soviet Union because it went against the common way of thinking there.

H

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason

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Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason

J

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason

K

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The King Never Smiles	Paul M. Handley	Biography	Banned in Thailand for its criticism of King Bhumibol Adulyadej

L

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Lady Chatterley's Lover	D. H. Lawrence	Novel	Temporarily banned in the United States and UK for violation of obscenity laws. Temporarily banned in Australia.
Little Black Sambo	Helen Bannerman	Children's Book	Banned in Japan (1988 - 2005) to quell "political threats to boycott Japanese cultural exports," although the pictures were not those of the original version.

M

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	Political ideology	Banned due to anti-Nazi laws. However, possession and sale for historical reasons is legal in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands .
Mirror of the Polish Crown	Sebastian Miczyński	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
The Mountain Wreath	Petar II Petrović Njegoš	Drama in verse	Banned in Bosnia schools by Carlos Westendorp.

N

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Naked Lunch	William S. Burroughs	Novel	Banned by Boston courts in 1962 for obscenity, but that decision was reversed in 1966 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
Notre ami le roi	Gilles Perrault	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.

O

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Of Mice and Men.	John Steinbeck	Novel	Due to vulgar language and use of the word "nigger"
On the Origins and Perpetual Use of the Legislative Powers of the Apostolic Kings of Hungary in Matters Ecclesiastical.	Adam F. Kollár	Legal-political	Banned by the Vatican in 1514 for arguments against the political role of the Roman Catholic Church. Original title: De Originibus et Usu perpetuo.

P

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Peaceful Pill Handbook	Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart	Instructional manual on euthanasia	It was initially banned in New Zealand by Office of Film & Literature Classification since it was deemed to be objectionable. In May 2008 it was allowed for sale if sealed and an indication of the censorship classification was displayed. The book remains banned outright in Australia. A digital edition is available from Peacefulpill.com

Q

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason

R

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Rights of Man	Thomas Paine	Political	Banned in the UK and author charged with treason for supporting the French Revolution. Banned in Tzarist Russia after the Decembrist revolt.
Rangila Rasul	Pt. Chamupati	Religious	Currently banned in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

S

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	Novel	Banned in Bangladesh, India, Singapore, and Iran for blasphemy.
Soft Target: How Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada	Zuhair Kashmeri & Brian McAndrew	Investigative Journalism	Banned in India.
Spycatcher	Peter Wright	Autobiography	Banned in 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.

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U

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Arius	Songbook	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. Banned by the Catholic Church for the next thousand plus years.
Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller	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 United States. Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s.
The Turner Diaries	William Luther Pierce	Novel	Book stores and libraries refuse to distribute it because of its racist theme. Banned in Germany for its Nazi ideology theme and Pierce leadership in the American Nazi Party. Blamed for a number of crimes allegedly inspired by the novel.
The Butter Battle Book	Dr. Seuss	Children's Book	Once removed from shelves of public libraries in the US due to the fact it was written during the Cold War era.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Eric Carle	Children's Book	Removed from libraries in Herefordshire during a healthy eating campaign due to their interpretation of it promoting over-consumption and obesity.}}
And Tango Makes Three	Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell	Children's Book	Banned from some schools and libraries for showing the true story two male penguins raising an egg together in a New York zoo. Suggests normalcy of homosexuality. {

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Ulysses	James Joyce	Novel	Challenged and temporarily banned in the US for its sexual content. Ban overturned in United States v. One Book Called Ulysses.
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Novel	Banned in the Southern States and Tzarist Russia. Challenged by the NAACP for allegedly racist portrayal of African Americans and the use of the word nigger.
United States-Vietnam Relations: 1945-1967	Robert McNamara and the United States Department of Defense	Government Study	President Nixon attempted to suspend publication of classified information. See: New York Times Co. v. United States

V

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Valley of the Dolls	Jacqueline Susann	Novel	Banned

W

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	Economic treatise	Banned in communist nations for its capitalist content.
The Well of Loneliness	Radclyffe Hall	Novel	Banned in the UK in 1928 for its lesbian theme, republished in 1949.
Where's Waldo?	Martin Handford	Children's book	Banned in the USA for a miniature picture of a topless lady tanning on the beach.