📕 Banned Books

Catalogue

Countries

Browse books banned in 30 countries, from school challenges in the United States to government bans across Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America.

Defunct states

Coverage is uneven: well-documented democracies like the United States appear to have more bans because their censorship attempts are systematically recorded. Bans in closed authoritarian states often go undocumented. This catalogue is a work in progress.