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Many societies have banned certain books. This is a partial list of books which 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, E for Ecstasy, and Hit Man.

In the four-volume series Banned Books,^[1] 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.

1 List of banned books
- 1.1 A
- 1.2 B
- 1.3 C
- 1.4 D
- 1.5 E
- 1.6 F
- 1.7 G
- 1.8 H
- 1.9 K
- 1.10 L
- 1.11 M
- 1.12 N
- 1.13 O
- 1.14 P
- 1.15 Q
- 1.16 R
- 1.17 S
- 1.18 T
- 1.19 U
- 1.20 V
- 1.21 W
- 1.22 X
- 1.23 Y
- 1.24 Z
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] List of banned books

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[edit] A

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	Anti-war novel	Banned in Nazi Germany for demoralizing and insulting the Wehrmacht.^[2]
Andersonville (novel)	MacKinlay Kantor	Novel	Banned in many places in the United States for obscenities and for promoting immorality. ^[3]
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.^[3]
Areopagitica	John Milton	Essay	Banned in England for political reasons.^[3]
As I Lay Dying	William Faulkner	Novel	Banned in Kentucky for language and for being anti-Christian. ^[4]

[edit] B

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Bhavsagar Granth	Baba Bhaniara	Religious text	Banned in Punjab, India because it is deemed heretical by orthodox Sikhs.^{[citation needed]}
Bible	Various authors	Religious text	Many translations of The Bible were banned by the Index Librorum Prohibitorum in the Catholic Church. Banned in the USSR and the People's Republic of China for antireligious reasons.^{[citation needed]}
Biko	Donald Woods	Biography	Banned in South Africa for its criticism of the apartheid system and white government.^{[citation needed]}
Black Beauty	Anna Sewell	Novel	Was banned in South Africa in 1955 because of the use of the word 'black' in the title.^[5]
Black Boy	Richard Wright	Novel	Banned in Mississippi; California; Nashua, NH; Island Trees, NY for being Anti-Catholic, Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian and obscene.^[6]
The Blue Lotus	Hergé	Graphic novel	Banned in China for its pro-Kuomintang view and support.^{[citation needed]}
The Book of One Thousand and One Nights		Collection	Banned in many primarily Muslim countries for promoting non-muslim faith^{[citation needed]}
Bridge to Terabithia	Katherine Paterson	Novel	Previously banned in the US for its offensive language and depictions of the occult.^{[citation needed]}
Burger's Daughter	Nadine Gordimer	Novel	Banned in South Africa in 1979 for going against the government's racial policies. ^[3]

[edit] C

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	Novel	Banned in various parts of the U.S. for language and sexual content. Also challenged and removed from several schools because the main character exhibits behavior deemed "inappropriate".^[7]
Call of the Wild	Jack London	Novel	Banned in Yugoslavia, Italy, and burned in Nazi bonfires.^[8]
Candide	Voltaire	Novel	Seized by US Customs in 1930 for obscenity.^[8]

[edit] D

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Dakar - The story of the Israeli submarine unit	Mike Eldar, Captain Navy	Israeli Navy History	The book was banned in 1997 by a district court, due to an alleged charge according to the "Official Secret Act" following the ban of Eldar's previous book "Flotilla 11" regardless the fact it had been approved by the Israeli military censor and despite the fact that over 2000 copies had been sold. Eldar was accused of "espionage", his home was searched, his website was shut down and his computer and documents were confiscated. Following a 4-year legal struggle, the book was released and all charges against Eldar were dropped.^{[citation needed]}
The Death of Lorca	Ian Gibson	Biography, True crime	Banned briefly in Spain. [2]
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. ^[3]
Did 6 Million Really Die?	Richard Harwood	Holocaust denial	Previously banned in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, and most of mainland Europe, Germany and Austria in particular, for Holocaust denial.^{[citation needed]}
Doctor Zhivago	Boris Pasternak	Novel	Banned within the USSR until 1988 for its criticism of the Bolshevik Party. ^[3]

[edit] E

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason

[edit] F

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Freedom writers diary	The Freedom Writers	Nonfiction	Banned in Perry Township, Indiana, for sexual content and racial slurs.^[9]

[edit] G

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Giver	Lois Lowry	Novel	Banned from some schools in Kansas and California; restricted at schools in several other U.S. states. The book addresses many controversial themes including euthanasia.^[10]
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-Hindhu servant. Ban overturned in India.^[11]

[edit] H

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason

[edit] 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^[12]

[edit] 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. Banned in Australia.^[13]
The Lorax	Dr. Seuss	Children's book	Banned from schools in parts of the US for being an allegorical political commentary.^[14]

[edit] 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^{[citation needed]}.
The Malay Dilemma	Mahathir bin Mohamad	Political ideology	Banned in Malaysia for its criticism of UMNO and the May 13 Incident. But the ban was lifted when Dr. Mahathir himself was made the 4th Prime Minister of Malaysia.^{[citation needed]}
Mephisto	Klaus Mann	Political novel / Satire	In 1968, Gustaf Gründgens' adopted son Peter Gorski sued Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung, then the publisher of Mephisto in West Germany. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that Gründgens' personal freedom (Article 2 of the Basic Law) was more important than the freedom of art (Article 5).^{[citation needed]}
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^{[citation needed]}
The Moon is Down	John Steinbeck	Political novel	Banned in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied countries during World War II. Distributed Illegally by various resistance movements.^{[citation needed]}
The Mountain Wreath	Petar II Petrović Njegoš	Drama in verse	Banned in Bosnia schools by Carlos Westendorp.^[15]

[edit] N

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Notre ami le roi	Gilles Perrault	Biography of Hassan II of Morocco	Banned in Morocco for political reasons.^[16]
Native Son	Richard Wright	Novel	Banned in the USA for sexually graphic and violent content.^[17]

[edit] O

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
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.^[18] Original title: De Originibus et Usu perpetuo.

[edit] P

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Peaceful Pill Handbook	Philip Nitschke and Fiona Stewart	Instructional manual on euthanasia	Banned in New Zealand by Office of Film & Literature Classification since it was deemed to be objectionable.^[19]

[edit] Q

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason

[edit] 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.^[8]
Rangila Rasul	Pt. Chamupati	Religious	Currently banned in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.^[20]

[edit] S

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	Novel	Banned in India, Singapore,^[21] and Iran for blasphemy.
Soft Target: How Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada	Zuhair Kashmeri & Brian McAndrew	Investigative Journalism	Banned in India.^[22]
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.^[23]^[24]

[edit] T

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason

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.^[25] 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.^[26] 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.^[27]

[edit] U

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.^[28]
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