Government / national bans
419 books banned in a government / national context
1984
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, often referred to as 1984, is a dystopian social science fiction novel by the English novelist George Orwell (the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair). It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final book completed in his lifetime. Thematically, Nineteen Eighty-Four centres on the consequences of totalitarianism, mass surveillance, and repressive regimentation of persons and behaviours within society. Orwell, himself a democratic socialist
Banned in 4 countries
23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad
Ali Dashti
Banned in Iran
A Banquet for Seaweed
Haidar Haidar
Banned in Egypt
A Dream of Good Death
Yi Mun-yol
Banned in South Korea
A Dry White Season
André Brink
Banned in South Africa
A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms is about a love affair between the expatriate American Henry and Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the First World War, cynical soldiers, fighting and the displacement of populations. The publication of A Farewell to Arms cemented Hemingway's stature as a modern American writer, became his first best-seller, and is described by biographer Michael Reynolds as "the premier American war novel from that debacle World War I."
Banned in 2 countries
A Feast for the Seaweeds
Haidar Haidar
Banned in Egypt
A Handful of Sand
Ishikawa Takuboku
Banned in Japan
A Month and a Day: A Detention Diary
Ken Saro-Wiwa
Banned in Nigeria
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
Banned in India
A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
Taner Akçam
Banned in Turkey
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
Danilo Kiš
Banned in Yugoslavia
A Woman in the Crossfire
Samar Yazbek
Banned in Syria
Abyssinian Chronicles
Moses Isegawa
Banned in Uganda
Adama
Turki al-Hamad
Banned in Saudi Arabia
Agostino
Alberto Moravia
Banned in 2 countries
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
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All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
This is the testament of Paul Bäumer, who enlists with his classmates in the German army of World War I. These young men become enthusiastic soldiers, but their world of duty, culture, and progress breaks into pieces under the first bombardment in the trenches. Through years of vivid horror, Paul holds fast to a single vow: to fight against the hatred that meaninglessly pits young men of the same generation but different uniforms against one another... if only he can come out of the war aliv
Banned in Germany
Amar Meyebela
Taslima Nasrin
Banned in Bangladesh
American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis
American Psycho is a novel by Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1991. The story is told in the first person by Patrick Bateman, a serial killer and Manhattan investment banker. Alison Kelly of The Observer notes that while "some countries [deem it] so potentially disturbing that it can only be sold shrink-wrapped", "critics rave about it" and "academics revel in its transgressive and postmodern qualities".
Banned in Australia
An American Tragedy
Theodore Dreiser
The classic depiction of the harsh realities of American life, the dark side of the American Dream, and one man's doomed pursuit of love and success..."Mr. Dreiser is not imitative and belongs to no school. He is at heart a mysticist and a fatalist, though using the realistic method. He is, on the evidence of this novel alone, a power." --The New York Times Book Review
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An Area of Darkness
V. S. Naipaul
This is V.S. Naipaul's record of his sojourn to India, the land of his fathers. Throughout the book, Naipaul's intense perceptions sweep the reader into the turmoil and fabulous richness of the length and breadth of India.
Banned in India
Angarey
Sajjad Zaheer
Banned in India
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Animal Farm is a brilliant political satire and a powerful and affecting story of revolutions and idealism, power and corruption. 'All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others.' Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs Napoleon and Snowball leads to the animals taking over the farm. Vowing to eliminate the terrible inequities of the farmyard, the renamed Animal Farm is
Banned in 4 countries
Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Banned in 3 countries
Ars Amatoria
Ovid
Banned in Italy
Até amanhã, camaradas
Manuel Tiago
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Autobiografía de Federico Sánchez
Jorge Semprún
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Axion Esti
Odysseas Elytis
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Barefoot Gen
Keiji Nakazawa
Banned in Japan
Before Night Falls
Reinaldo Arenas
Banned in Cuba
Beijing Coma
Ma Jian
Banned in China
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
Banned in Italy
Bells in Winter
Czesław Miłosz
Banned in Poland
Blue Lard
Vladimir Sorokin
Banned in Russia
Bodas de sangre
Federico García Lorca
Banned in Spain
Bones
Chenjerai Hove
Banned in Zimbabwe
Book of Songs
Heinrich Heine
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Borstal Boy
Brendan Behan
**From Amazon.com:** This miracle of autobiography and prison literature begins: "Friday, in the evening, the landlady shouted up the stairs: 'Oh God, oh Jesus, oh Sacred Heart, Boy, there's two gentlemen here to see you.' I knew by the screeches of her that the gentlemen were not calling to inquire after my health . . . I grabbed my suitcase, containing Pot. Chlor., Sulph Ac, gelignite, detonators, electrical and ignition, and the rest of my Sinn Fein conjurer's outfit, and carried it to the
Banned in Ireland
Boy
James Hanley
Banned in United Kingdom
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Banned in Ireland
Burger's Daughter
Nadine Gordimer
Par une romancière sud-africaine de talent, une plongée dans l'enfer quotidien - violence et suspicion - du racisme. L'héroïne est la fille d'un médecin blanc, condamné à la prison à vie, pour avoir organisé la lutte politique contre l'apartheid.
Banned in South Africa
Burmese Days
George Orwell
Banned in Myanmar
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
Elizabeth Smart
Banned in Canada
Campo cerrado
Max Aub
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Cancer Ward
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Banned in Soviet Union
Candide
Voltaire
Brought up in the household of a powerful Baron, Candide is an open-minded young man, whose tutor, Pangloss, has instilled in him the belief that 'all is for the best'. But when his love for the Baron's rosy-cheeked daughter is discovered, Candide is cast out to make his own way in the world. And so he and his various companions begin a breathless tour of Europe, South America and Asia, as an outrageous series of disasters befall them - earthquakes, syphilis, a brush with the Inquisition, mu
Banned in United States
Canto General
Pablo Neruda
Comprising 15 sections and over 300 separate poems, Neruda's epic masterwork traces the history of Spanish America from pre-Colombian innocence to modern corruption. This edition includes a comprehensive introduction and numerous photos of Neruda.
Banned in 2 countries
Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty
"Thomas Piketty's bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Piketty challenges us to revolutionize how we think about politics, ideology, and history. He exposes the ideas that have sustained inequality for the past millennium, reveals why the shallow politics of right and left are failing us today, and outlines the structure of a fairer economic system. Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, pr
Banned in China
Child of All Nations
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Banned in Indonesia
Children of the Alley
Naguib Mahfouz
Banned in Egypt
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Carlo Levi
Banned in Italy
Cities of Salt
Abdelrahman Munif
Banned in 2 countries
Conversations in Sicily
Elio Vittorini
Banned in Italy
Conversations with Stalin
Milovan Đilas
Banned in Yugoslavia
Cry, the Beloved Country
Alan Paton
Banned in South Africa
Daring to Drive
Manal al-Sharif
Banned in Saudi Arabia
Darkness at Noon
Arthur Koestler
**Darkness at Noon** (German: *Sonnenfinsternis*) is a novel by Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best known work, it is the tale of Rubashov, an Old Bolshevik who is arrested, imprisoned, and tried for treason against the government that he helped to create. The novel is set in 1939 during the Stalinist Great Purge and Moscow show trials. Despite being based on real events, the novel does not name either Russia or the Soviets, and tends to use gene
Banned in Soviet Union
Das Kapital
Karl Marx
Banned in 3 countries
De Monarchia
Dante Alighieri
Banned in Vatican City
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Nicolaus Copernicus
Banned in Vatican City
Devil on the Cross
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Banned in Kenya
Dialektik ohne Dogma
Robert Havemann
Banned in East Germany (DDR)
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo Galilei
Banned in Vatican City
Did Six Million Really Die?
Richard Verrall
Banned in 2 countries
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Banned in Vatican City
Doctor Zhivago
Boris Pasternak
***This epic tale about the effects of the Russian Revolution and its aftermath on a bourgeois family was not published in the Soviet Union until 1987.*** One of the results of its publication in the West was Pasternak's complete rejection by Soviet authorities; when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 he was compelled to decline it. ***The book quickly became an international best-seller.*** **Dr. Yury Zhivago, Pasternak's alter ego, is a poet, philosopher, and physician wh
Banned in Soviet Union
Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes
Banned in Venezuela
Dream of Ding Village
Yan Lianke
Banned in China
Droll Stories
Honoré de Balzac
Banned in Canada
Dubliners
James Joyce
James Joyce's disillusion with the publication of Dubliners in 1914 was the result of ten years battling with publishers, resisting their demands to remove swear words, real place names and much else, including two entire stories. Although only 24 when he signed his first publishing contract for the book, Joyce already knew its worth: to alter it in any way would 'retard the course of civilisation in Ireland'. Joyce's aim was to tell the truth -- to create a work of art that would reflect life i
Banned in Ireland
Duffy
James Plunkett
Banned in Ireland
Dwikhandita
Taslima Nasrin
Banned in 2 countries
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
Banned in Ireland
El Eternauta
Héctor Germán Oesterheld
Banned in Argentina
El Filibusterismo
José Rizal
Banned in Philippines
El Monte
Lydia Cabrera
Banned in Cuba
El Señor Presidente
Miguel Ángel Asturias
"...La larga gestación de El Señor Presidente, por encima de su condición de novela-denuncia, trasciende los ecos surgidos de la memoria colectiva a partir de la resonancia natural de las palabras y las fantasías oníricas asimiladas de manera gradual por la realidad de la vida..."
Banned in Guatemala
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Banned in 2 countries
Em Câmara Lenta
Renato Tapajós
Banned in Brazil
Embers
Sándor Márai
Banned in Hungary
Emile, or On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Banned in 2 countries
Endgame
Ahmet Altan
Banned in Turkey
Epitaphios
Yannis Ritsos
Banned in Greece
Escape from Camp 14
Blaine Harden
Banned in North Korea
Everything Flows
Vasily Grossman
Banned in Soviet Union
Explicit Material
Clive Hamilton
Banned in Australia
Family Limitation
Margaret Sanger
Banned in United States
Fanny Hill
John Cleland
Banned in 2 countries
Feliz Ano Novo
Rubem Fonseca
Banned in Brazil
Fields of Castile
Antonio Machado
Banned in Spain
Fifty Shades of Grey
E.L. James
Banned in Malaysia
Five Bandits
Kim Chi-ha
Banned in South Korea
Five Bandits
Kim Chi-ha
Banned in South Korea
Fontamara
Ignazio Silone
Banned in Italy
Footsteps
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Banned in Indonesia
For Bread Alone
Mohamed Choukri
Banned in Morocco
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ernest Hemingway
Addressing a 1937 Writers Congress in a rare public speech, Ernest Hemingway proclaimed that there is "only one form of government that cannot produce good writers, and that system is fascism. For fascism is a lie told by bullies. A writer who will not lie cannot live and work under fascism." With this rallying cry against the fascist forces in Spain's then year-old Civil War, Hemingway expressed his firm belief in an artist's need to write "what is true," his commitment to freedom, and his pas
Banned in Spain
Forbidden Memory: Tibet During the Cultural Revolution
Tsering Woeser
Banned in China
Fractured Destinies
Rabai al-Madhoun
Banned in 2 countries
Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi
Banned in Myanmar
Frisk
Dennis Cooper
Banned in Australia
From Hell
Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
Banned in Australia
Fuera del juego
Heberto Padilla
Banned in Cuba
Gaibéus
Alves Redol
Banned in Portugal
Germinal
Émile Zola
Banned in Russia
Giovanni's Room
James Baldwin
Considered an 'audacious' second novel, GIOVANNI'S ROOM is set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence. This now-classic story of a fated love triangle explores, with uncompromising clarity, the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity.
Banned in United States
Girls in Their Married Bliss
Edna O'Brien
Banned in Ireland
Girls of Riyadh
Rajaa Alsanea
Banned in Saudi Arabia
Goat Days
Benyamin
Banned in 2 countries
God Dies by the Nile
Nawal El Saadawi
Banned in 2 countries
God's Little Acre
Erskine Caldwell
Banned in United States
Gypsy Ballads
Federico García Lorca
Banned in Spain
Haji Agha
Sadegh Hedayat
Banned in Iran
Heart of a Dog
Mikhail Bulgakov
Banned in Soviet Union
High Times Encyclopedia of Recreational Drugs
High Times Magazine (eds.)
Banned in Australia
Hind Swaraj
Mahatma Gandhi
Banned in India
Hit Man: A Technical Manual for Independent Contractors
Rex Feral
Banned in Australia
Hoa Kiau
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Banned in Indonesia
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
[Homage to Catalonia][1] is [George Orwell][2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many British workers, trades unionists, and socialists keen to help the Spanish defend their Republic from General Franco's Fascist forces. Orwell joined the [POUM][3] Militia in the Catalan region of Spain, was injured in the fighting and invalided back to England. After leaving the front line preparatory to leaving Spain, Orwell saw for himself the machinations of the Comm
Banned in Spain
House of Glass
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Banned in Indonesia
How to Read Donald Duck
Ariel Dorfman
First published in 1971 in Chile, where the entire third printing was dumped into the ocean by the Chilean Navy and bonfires were held to destroy earlier editions, How to Read Donald Duck reveals the capitalist ideology at work in our most beloved cartoons. Focusing on the hapless mice and ducks of Disney—curiously parentless, marginalized, always short of cash—Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart dissect the narratives of dependency and social aspiration that define the Disney corpus. Disney reco
Banned in Chile
Howl and Other Poems
Allen Ginsberg
"The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1956 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition." "When the book arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S. Customs, and shortly thereafter the San Francisco police arrested its publisher and editor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, together with the City Lights Bookstore manager, Shigeyoshi Murao. The two of them were charged with disseminating obscene literature, and the case
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Hubert Selby Jr.: Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr.
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I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai
Banned in Pakistan
I Served the King of England
Bohumil Hrabal
Banned in Czechoslovakia
I Will Marry When I Want
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Banned in Kenya
I Write What I Like
Steve Biko
Banned in South Africa
Imperialism: The Spectre of the Twentieth Century
Kōtoku Shūsui
Banned in Japan
In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
Stanley Karnow
Banned in Philippines
In Praise of Hatred
Khaled Khalifa
Banned in Syria
In the Name of Honor
Mukhtar Mai
Banned in Pakistan
Inside Linda Lovelace
Linda Lovelace
Banned in United Kingdom
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Brontë
"Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school."--Back jacket.
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Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence
Jaswant Singh
Banned in India
Journals of Resistance
Mikis Theodorakis
Banned in Greece
July's People
Nadine Gordimer
Banned in South Africa
Justine
Marquis de Sade
Banned in France
Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
Marquis de Sade
Banned in France
Ka
Taslima Nasrin
Banned in Bangladesh
Kurdistan: An Interstate Colony
İsmail Beşikçi
Banned in Turkey
La Régente de Carthage
Nicolas Beau
Banned in Tunisia
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D.H. Lawrence
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
Banned in United Kingdom
Lady Chatterley's Lover (Japanese translation)
D.H. Lawrence
Banned in Japan
Lajja
Taslima Nasrin
Banned in Bangladesh
Lajja
Taslima Nasrin
Banned in 2 countries
Las palabras perdidas
Jesús Díaz
Banned in Cuba
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Hubert Selby Jr.
Banned in United Kingdom
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Banned in United States
Lee Kuan Yew: The Beliefs Behind the Man
Michael D. Barr
Banned in Singapore
Les 120 Journées de Sodome
Marquis de Sade
Banned in 2 countries
Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire
Banned in France
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Banned in 2 countries
Les Onze Mille Verges
Guillaume Apollinaire
Banned in France
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Banned in Vatican City
Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng
In August 1966 a group of Red Guards ransacked the home of Nien Cheng. Her background made her an obvious target for the fanatics of the Cultural Revolution: educated in London, the widow of an official of Chiang Kai-shek's regime, and an employee of Shell Oil, Nien Cheng enjoyed comforts that few of her compatriots could afford. When she refused to confess that any of this made her an enemy of the state, she was placed in solitary confinement, where she would remain for more than six years.
Banned in China
Life and Fate
Vasily Grossman
Banned in Soviet Union
Livro Sexto
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen
Banned in Portugal
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov. The novel is notable for its controversial subject: the protagonist and unreliable narrator, a middle-aged literature professor under the pseudonym Humbert Humbert, is obsessed with a 12-year-old girl, Dolores Haze, whom he sexually molests after he becomes her stepfather. "Lolita" is his private nickname for Dolores. The novel was originally written in English and first published in Paris in 1955 by Olympia Press. Lat
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Looking on Darkness
André Brink
Banned in South Africa
Lord Horror
David Britton
Banned in United Kingdom
Lysistrata
Aristophanes
Banned in Greece
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
Banned in France
Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait
Magnus Hirschfeld
Banned in Germany
Mao: The Unknown Story
Jung Chang
A biography of of Mao Zedong taken from the perspective of his relationship to women. The normal biographical elements make up the majority of the text but when there is an interesting aspect regarding Mao's attitude toward women, Jung Chang (a woman) goes for it. For example... any normal biography of Mao, would take account of the movements of Mao's army as he took control of China but it is interesting that his army camped outside the town where his wife and son lived (had been abandoned, fra
Banned in China
Marinero en tierra
Rafael Alberti
Banned in Spain
Marks of Identity
Juan Goytisolo
Banned in Spain
Marquis de Sade: A Biography
Donald Thomas
Banned in Australia
Marriage and Morals
Bertrand Russell
Marriage & Morals is the great book by great Philosopher of 20th c Bertrand Russell
Banned in Ireland
Married Love
Marie Stopes
Banned in 2 countries
Masses Man
Ernst Toller
Banned in Germany
Matigari
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Banned in Kenya
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
Banned in Vatican City
Mein Kampf
Adolf Hitler
Banned in 6 countries
Memoirs
Pablo Neruda
Banned in Chile
Memoirs of Hecate County
Edmund Wilson
Banned in United States
Memory for Forgetfulness
Mahmoud Darwish
Banned in Israel
Midnight in the Century
Victor Serge
Banned in Soviet Union
Midnight's Children
Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence and the partition of India. It is considered an example of postcolonial, postmodern, and magical realist literature. The story is told by its chief protagonist, Saleem Sinai, and is set in the context of actual historical events. The style of preserving history with fictional accounts is self-reflexive. Midnight's Children won both the Booker Prize and the Ja
Banned in India
Milo Manara: The Harem
Milo Manara
Banned in Australia
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
Banned in United States
Morning in Jenin
Susan Abulhawa
Banned in Jordan
Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
Banned in Germany
My Century
Aleksander Wat
Banned in Poland
My Happy Days in Hell
György Faludy
Banned in Hungary
My Name Is Red
Orhan Pamuk
Banned in Turkey
My Side of History
Chin Peng
Banned in Singapore
My Uncle Napoleon
Iraj Pezeshkzad
Banned in Iran
Myra Breckinridge
Gore Vidal
No one remains untouched by the luscious Myra Breckinridge's quest for Hollywood fame. Her job teaching Empathy and Posture at the Academy of Drama and Modeling gives her the perfect opportunity to vamp, scheme, and seduce her way into the undiscovered lives and passions of others - while trying to keep a few secrets of her own. In the sequel, Myron, the Breckinridge saga takes an increasingly bizarre turn. Myron seems to be an inconspicuous man with a sweet wife and a Chinese catering busine
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Nada
Carmen Laforet
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Nadirs
Herta Müller
Banned in Romania
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
Controversial and bizarre cult novel based on the author’s own experiences as a drug addict, first published in 1959. Formed as a series of inter-connected adventures set in locations as diverse as the U.S. Mexico and Morocco sees the protagonist, Burroughs’ alter-ego William Lee on the run from the police and always searching for his next fix. Burroughs once stated that the chapters can be read in any order.
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Nana
Émile Zola
Overview: Prompted by his theories of heredity and environment, Zola set out to show Nana, "the golden fly", rising out of the underworld to feed on society--a predetermined product of her origins. Nana's latent destructiveness is mirrored in the Empire's, and they reflect each others' disintegration and final collapse in 1890. Built around the book's scientific skeleton is a powerful, sensual atmosphere and a rich use of words which elevate the novel beyond the realistic platform into a "poem o
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Napoléon le Petit
Victor Hugo
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Niki: The Story of a Dog
Tibor Déry
Banned in Hungary
Nine Hours to Rama
Stanley Wolpert
Banned in India
Noli Me Tángere
José Rizal
The book revolves on the struggles of young Crisostomo Ibarra: how he humbly fights for his childhood sweetheart Maria Clara, for himself and for his fellowmen against the Spanish priest Padre Damaso and the Spanish Government who were then conquerors of San Diego, his native hometown. Coming home to San Diego from Spain to mourn for his father's death, he learned how his father, a rich illustrado, suffered prior to his death. However, he was surprised by the facts how his father had been treat
Banned in Philippines
Nostalgia
Mircea Cărtărescu
Banned in Romania
Not Out of Hate
Ma Ma Lay
Banned in Myanmar
Novel Without a Name
Dương Thu Hương
Banned in Vietnam
O Delfim
José Cardoso Pires
Banned in Portugal
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
Banned in Germany
On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist
Norman Manea
Banned in Romania
On Islam
Ahmad Kasravi
Banned in Iran
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
Banned in 2 countries
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literature. The story of labor-camp inmate Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, it graphically describes his struggle to maintain his dignity in the face of communist oppression. An unforgettable portrait of the entire world of Stalin's forced work camps, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Un
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez
*Cien años de soledad* es una novela del escritor colombiano Gabriel García Márquez, ganador del Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1982. Es considerada una obra maestra de la literatura hispanoamericana y universal, cumbre del denominado "realismo mágico". Es asimismo una de las obras más traducidas y leídas en español. Narra la historia de la familia Buendía a lo largo de siete generaciones en el pueblo ficticio de Macondo. ---------- *Cien años de soledad* is considered the best work of
Banned in 2 countries
One Sentence About Tyranny
Gyula Illyés
Banned in Hungary
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
Banned in 2 countries
Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano
Banned in 4 countries
Opera Wonyosi
Wole Soyinka
Banned in Nigeria
Out of the Game
Heberto Padilla
Banned in Cuba
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
Samuel Richardson
Banned in Vatican City
Paradise of the Blind
Dương Thu Hương
Banned in Vietnam
Pensées
Blaise Pascal
Banned in Vatican City
Petals of Blood
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
Banned in Kenya
Peyton Place
Grace Metalious
Banned in 2 countries
Politics for Everyone
Pham Doan Trang
Banned in Vietnam
Portnoy's Complaint
Philip Roth
Though is caused outrage and controversy at the time of its publication Roth’s comic novel of sexual obsession and frustration is now widely regarded as one of the best novels of the twentieth century.
Banned in Australia
Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia
Jean Sasson
Banned in Saudi Arabia
Prisoner of Conscience
Ma Thida
Banned in Myanmar
Prisoner of the State
Zhao Ziyang
Banned in China
Prisoners of the State: The Inside Story of China's Secret System
Xu Zhiyong
Banned in China
Putin's Russia
Anna Politkovskaya
Banned in Russia
Quarup
Antonio Callado
Banned in Brazil
Ragazzi di vita
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Banned in Italy
Rama Retold
Aubrey Menen
Banned in India
Rangila Rasul
M.A. Chamupati
Banned in India
Reading Lolita in Tehran
Azar Nafisi
Banned in Iran
Reborn
Forough Farrokhzad
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Red Sorghum
Mo Yan
This file is missing one or two pages near the end of the book--the second- and maybe third-to-last page. Couldn't find anywhere else to make this note.
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Republic of Fear
Kanan Makiya
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Requiem
Anna Akhmatova
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Riot Days
Maria Alyokhina
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Round Heads and Pointed Heads
Bertolt Brecht
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Samuel Beckett: His Works and His Critics
Raymond Federman
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Satan's Stones
Moniru Ravanipur
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Season of Migration to the North
Tayeb Salih
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Sexual Ethics
Auguste Forel
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Shame
Taslima Nasrin
The animosity and bloodletting between Muslim and Hindu extremists on the Indian subcontinent are centuries old. But when the 450-year-old Babri mosque in Ayodhya (southeast of Delhi) was destroyed by Hindu fundamentalists in 1992, it let loose a worldwide wave of Muslim reprisals against all Hindus - a reign of terror that extended even to Bangladesh's small Hindu community. These incidents form the background to Taslima Nasrin's explosive and courageous novel, Shame (Lajja in Bengali), descri
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Shanghai Baby
Wei Hui
"Publicly burned in China for its sensual nature and irreverent style, this novel is the semi-autobiographical story of Coco, a cafe waitress, who is full of enthusiasm and impatience for life. She meets a young man, Tian Tian, for whom she feels tenderness and love, but he is reclusive, impotent and an increasing user of drugs. Despite parental objections, Coco moves in with him, leaves her job and throws herself into writing.". "Shortly afterwards she meets Mark, a married Westerner. The two
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Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
James Laine
"Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone in western India knows, and an important part of the Hindu nationalists' ideology. To read Shivaji's legend today is to find expression of deeply held convictions about what Hinduism means and how it is opposed to Islam.". "James Laine traces th
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Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
James Laine
Banned in India
Show Me
Will McBride
Banned in 2 countries
Sister Carrie
Theodore Dreiser
Banned in United States
Snow
Orhan Pamuk
Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek
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Sons and Lovers
D.H. Lawrence
Banned in 2 countries
Sophie's Choice
William Styron
The gripping, unforgettable story of Stingo, a 22-year-old writer; Sophie, a Polish-Catholic beauty who survived the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz; and Nathan, her mercurial lover. The three friends share magical, heart-warming times until doom overtakes them as Sophie's and Nathan's darkest secrets are revealed.
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Soul Mountain
Gao Xingjian
Faced with a repressive cultural environment and the threat of internment on a prison farm, Chinese playwright, critic, novelist, and painter Gao fled Beijing and journeyed into the remote mountains and ancient forests of Sichuan. The result of this epic voyage of discovery is Soul Mountain.
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Speak, Bird, Speak Again
Ibrahim Muhawi & Sharif Kanaana
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Spycatcher
Peter Wright
Banned in 2 countries
Steal This Book
Abbie Hoffman
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Story of O
Pauline Réage
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Stray Memories
Abdullah Al Busais
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Sumatoha
Yordan Radichkov
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Tango
Sławomir Mrożek
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Taseer of Lahore
Jugnu Mohsin
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Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Thomas Hardy
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Tessa, a Gata
Cassandra Rios
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The 'Genius'
Theodore Dreiser
Banned in United States
The Adventures of Tintin in the Congo
Hergé
Banned in 2 countries
The Anarchist Cookbook
William Powell
Banned in 5 countries
The Argumentative Indian
Amartya Sen
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The Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
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The Barracks
John McGahern
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The Bastard of Istanbul
Elif Şafak
Banned in Turkey
The Best of J. B. Jeyaretnam
J. B. Jeyaretnam
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The Bible
Various Authors
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The Blind Owl
Sadeq Hedayat
Banned in Iran
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Milan Kundera
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The Butcher Boy
Patrick McCabe
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The Canary and Other Tales of Martial Law
Marek Nowakowski
Banned in Poland
The Captive Mind
Czesław Miłosz
Banned in 2 countries
The Case Worker
György Konrád
Banned in Hungary
The Clergyman's Daughter
George Orwell
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The Collected Stories of Seán O'Faoláin
Seán O'Faoláin
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The Colonel
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi
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The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to world wide communism. Full text available at Project Gutenberg too: http://www.gutenberg.org/file
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The Conjugal Dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos
Primitivo Mijares
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The Corpse Walker
Liao Yiwu
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The Country Girls
Edna O'Brien
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The Crime of Father Amaro
José Maria de Eça de Queirós
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The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
The Da Vinci Code is a 2003 mystery thriller novel by Dan Brown. It is Brown's second novel to include the character Robert Langdon: the first was his 2000 novel Angels & Demons. The Da Vinci Code follows "symbologist" Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu after a murder in the Louvre Museum in Paris causes them to become involved in a battle between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over the possibility of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene having had a child together. ---------- See al
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The Dark
John McGahern
The Dark, John McGaherns second novel, is set in rural Ireland. The themes that McGahern has made his own are adolescence and a guilty, yet uncontrollable sexuality that is contorted and twisted by both a puritanical state religion and a strange, powerful and ambiguous relationship between son and widower father.Against a background evoked with quiet, undemonstrative mastery, McGahern explores with precision and tenderness a human situation, superficially very ordinary, but inwardly an agony of
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The Death of Artemio Cruz
Carlos Fuentes
Banned in Mexico
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
Decameron, collection of tales by Giovanni Boccaccio, probably composed between 1349 and 1353. The work is regarded as a masterpiece of classical Italian prose. While romantic in tone and form, it breaks from medieval sensibility in its insistence on the human ability to overcome, even exploit, fortune. The Decameron comprises a group of stories united by a frame story. As the frame narrative opens, 10 young people (seven women and three men) flee plague-stricken Florence to a delightful vill
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The Dwarf
Cho Se-hui
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The Factory Ship
Takiji Kobayashi
Banned in Japan
The Fear: Robert Mugabe and the Martyrdom of Zimbabwe
Peter Godwin
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The First Circle
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Forging of a Rebel
Arturo Barea
Banned in Spain
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Şafak
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The Foundation Pit
Andrei Platonov
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The Fugitive
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Banned in Indonesia
The Garden Party
Václav Havel
Banned in Czechoslovakia
The General in His Labyrinth
Gabriel García Márquez
Banned in Colombia
The General of the Dead Army
Ismail Kadare
Banned in Albania
The Ginger Man
J. P. Donleavy
Banned in Ireland
The Girl with Seven Names
Hyeonseo Lee
Banned in North Korea
The God of Small Things
Arundhati Roy
Banned in India
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
José Saramago
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The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Steinbeck’s classic novel of the Great Depression is as vivid now as ever. The story focuses on a family of Oklahoma sharecroppers, farmers who work another man’s land for a share of the crops. Driven from their home by drought and poverty they take to the road in a battered old truck and make their way to California to look for work. When they arrive they find hundreds of others like them being forced to work for breadline wages. they begin working as fruit pickers, strike-breakers replacing th
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The Guinea Pigs
Ludvík Vaculík
Banned in Czechoslovakia
The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The Gulag Archipelago is Solzhenitsyn's masterwork, a vast canvas of camps, prisons, transit centres and secret police, of informers and spies and interrogators and also of heroism, a Stalinist anti-world at the heart of the Soviet Union where the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair. The work is based on the testimony of some two hundred survivors, and on the recollection of Solzhenitsyn's own eleven years in labour camps and exile. It is both a thoroughly researched document and a fe
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The Hidden Face of Eve
Nawal El Saadawi
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The Hive
Camilo José Cela
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The Hive
Camilo José Cela
Considered by many scholars and critics to be the "dean" of contemporary Spanish fiction, Camilo Jose Cela is one of Spain's most controversial novelists. In Understanding Camilo Jose Cela, Lucile C. Charlebois examines the 1989 Nobel laureate's ten most important novels. She shows that in addition to being unequivocally Spanish in their concerns, characters, and imagery, the novels speak to the larger world with their insights into our most basic needs, desires, and fears. Charlebois describes
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The House of Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca
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The Informer
Liam O'Flaherty
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The Iron Heel
Jack London
Generally considered to be "the earliest of the modern Dystopian," it chronicles the rise of an oligarchic tyranny in the United States. It is arguably the novel in which Jack London's socialist views are most explicitly on display. A forerunner of soft science fiction novels and stories of the 1960s and 1970s, the book stresses future changes in society and politics while paying much less attention to technological changes.
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The Islamic State: A Brief Introduction
Charles Lister
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The Joke
Milan Kundera
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The Joke
Milan Kundera
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The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
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The King Never Smiles
Paul Handley
Thailand's Bhumibol Adulyadej, the only king ever born in the United States, came to the throne of his country in 1946 and is now the world's longest-serving monarch. "The King Never Smiles," the first independent biography of Thailand's monarch, tells the unexpected story of Bhumibol's life and sixty-year rule.
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The Land of Green Plums
Herta Müller
Banned in Romania
The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis
Banned in 2 countries
The Little Red Schoolbook
Søren Hansen & Jesper Jensen
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The Lonely Girl
Edna O'Brien
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
Brian Moore
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The Man Died: Prison Notes
Wole Soyinka
Banned in Nigeria
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
*The Master and Margarita* (Russian: Мастер и Маргарита) is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov, written in the Soviet Union between 1928 and 1940. The story concerns a visit by the devil and his entourage to the officially atheist Soviet Union. The devil, manifested as one Professor Woland, challenges the Soviet citizens' beliefs towards religion and condemns their behavior throughout the book. *The Master and Margarita* combines supernatural elements with satirical dark comedy and Christian philosophy
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The Memorandum
Václav Havel
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The Moon and the Bonfires
Cesare Pavese
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The Naked and the Dead
Norman Mailer
Banned in Canada
The Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
Banned in United Kingdom
The New Class: An Analysis of the Communist System
Milovan Đilas
Banned in Yugoslavia
The Oath of the Barbarians
Boualem Sansal
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The Open Sore of a Continent
Wole Soyinka
Banned in Nigeria
The Open Veins of Latin America
Eduardo Galeano
Banned in 3 countries
The Painted Bird
Jerzy Kosiński
Fictional memoir of World War II experiences of a small boy abandoned in a remote village in Central Europe.
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The Palace of Dreams
Ismail Kadare
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The Palace of the White Skunks
Reinaldo Arenas
Banned in Cuba
The Passive Organ
Paul Goma
Banned in Romania
The Patience Stone
Atiq Rahimi
Banned in Afghanistan
The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Banned in Pakistan
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde
Banned in United Kingdom
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
Banned in Mexico
The Power of the Powerless
Václav Havel
Banned in Czechoslovakia
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Banned in Vatican City
The Private Life of Chairman Mao
Li Zhisui
From 1954 until Mao Zedong's death twenty-two years later, Dr. Li Zhisui was the Chinese ruler's personal physician, which put him in almost daily - and increasingly intimate - contact with Mao and his inner circle. For most of these years, Mao's health was excellent; thus he and the doctor had time to discuss political and personal matters. Dr. Li recorded many of these conversations in his diaries as well as in his memory. In The Private Life of Chairman Mao he vividly reconstructs his extr
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Unknown
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The Quran
Various Authors
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The Rainbow
D.H. Lawrence
Banned in United Kingdom
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
Banned in 2 countries
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published September 26, 1988 and inspired in part by the life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters. The title refers to the satanic verses, a group of Quranic verses that refer to three pagan Meccan goddesses: Allāt, Uzza, and Manāt. The part of the story that deals with the "satanic verses" was based on accounts fro
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The Second Chechen War
Anna Politkovskaya
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The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
**The Second Sex** (French: *Le Deuxième Sexe*) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women throughout history. Beauvoir researched and wrote the book in about 14 months between 1946 and 1949. She published the work in two volumes: *Facts and Myths* (*Les faits et les mythes*), and *Lived Experience* (*L’expérience vécue*). Some chapters first appeared in the journal *Les Temps modernes*. One of Beauvoir’s best-
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The Seizure of Power
Czesław Miłosz
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The Shadow of Arms
Hwang Sok-yong
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The Sleepless World
Erich Kästner
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The Sleepwalkers
Stefan Zweig
One week after she starts her summer job on Fear Street with old Mrs. Cottler, Mayra Barnes begins to sleepwalk, always waking up outdoors in the middle of the night never knowing where she is! Things take a disturbing turn when Mayra discovers Mrs. Cottler may be a witch. Is the old woman casting a spell on Mayra to make her sleepwalk? More horrifying, Mayra is being followed by a menacing stranger who seems to recognize her. But she's never seen him in her life! Mayra's sleepwalking is leading
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The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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The Sorrows of Young Werther
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Banned in 2 countries
The Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu
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The Square
Choi In-hun
Banned in South Korea
The Stone Virgins
Yvonne Vera
Banned in Zimbabwe
The Story of Ferdinand
Munro Leaf
A gentle bull who likes to sit quietly and smell flowers is entered in a bullfight.
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The Story of O
Pauline Réage
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The Subversive
Nick Joaquin
Banned in Philippines
The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra
Banned in Afghanistan
The Tailor and Ansty
Eric Cross
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The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Banned in 2 countries
The Tintin series
Hergé
Banned in Soviet Union
The Tragic Sense of Life
Miguel de Unamuno
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The Trial
Franz Kafka
Byzantine and claustrophobic novel of a man arrested by the secret police and charged with an unspecified crime. Unable to defend himself and disorientated by the legal process at work around him the man soon becomes apathetic and acquiescent, accepting his eventual sentence as inevitable.
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The True Confessions of an Albino Terrorist
Breyten Breytenbach
Banned in South Africa
The Truth That Killed
Georgi Markov
Banned in Bulgaria
The Turner Diaries
William Luther Pierce
Banned in 2 countries
The Ugly American
William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick
Banned in Vietnam
The Ukrainian Night
Mychailo Wynnycky
Banned in Russia
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.
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The Untold Story of Imelda Marcos
Carmen Navarro Pedrosa
Banned in Philippines
The Voice of Hope
Aung San Suu Kyi
Banned in Myanmar
The War of the End of the World
Mario Vargas Llosa
A finales del siglo XIX, en las tierras paupérrimas del noreste del Brasil, el chispazo de las arengas del Consejero, personaje mesiánico y enigmático, prenderá la insurrección de los desheredados. En circunstancias extremas como aquéllas, la consecución de la dignidad vital sólo podrá venir de la exaltación religiosa -el convencimiento fanático de la elección divina de los marginados del mundo- y del quebranto radical de las reglas que rigen el mundo de los poderosos. Así, grupos de miser
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The Well of Loneliness
Radclyffe Hall
Stephen is an ideal child of aristocratic parentsa fencer, a horse rider and a keen scholar. Stephen grows to be a war hero, a bestselling writer and a loyal, protective lover. But Stephen is a woman, and her lovers are women. As her ambitions drive her, and society confines her, Stephen is forced into desperate actions.
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The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
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The Wire Harp
Wolf Biermann
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The Wonderful Years
Reiner Kunze
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The World of Yesterday
Stefan Zweig
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The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany
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Theologico-Political Treatise
Baruch Spinoza
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There Was a Country
Chinua Achebe
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This Earth of Mankind
Pramoedya Ananta Toer
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Three Comrades
Erich Maria Remarque
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Three Trapped Tigers
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Time of Silence
Luis Martín-Santos
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To Live
Yu Hua
Ben shu shi wo guo si da gu dian ming zhu zhi yi, yi jia bao yu, lin dai yu, xue bao chai de ai qing jiu ge wei xian suo, yi jia, shi, wang, xue si da jia zu wei zhong xin, yi qing chao feng jian she hui wei bei jing, xie chu le feng jian da jia zu de xing shuai, tong shi ye zhe she chu wo guo feng jian she hui xing shuai de li shi.
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Tobacco Road
Erskine Caldwell
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Tom Jones
Henry Fielding
Banned in Vatican City
Tombstone
Yang Jisheng
An account of the famine that killed roughly thirty-six million Chinese during the Great Leap Forward examines how the communist ideologies and collectivization campaigns perpetuated by the country's leaders caused the catastrophe.
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Too Loud a Solitude
Bohumil Hrabal
Banned in Czechoslovakia
Total Abuse
Peter Sotos
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Touba and the Meaning of Night
Shahrnush Parsipur
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Tropic of Cancer
Henry Miller
A stream-of-consciousness story of a poverty-stricken young American, living in Paris.
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Tropic of Capricorn
Henry Miller
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Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
Banned in Vatican City
Ukraine Is Not Russia
Leonid Kuchma
Banned in Russia
Ulysses
James Joyce
Written over a seven-year period, from 1914 to 1921, this book has survived bowdlerization, legal action and controversy. The novel deals with the events of one day in Dublin, 16th June 1904, now known as "Bloomsday". The principal characters are Stephen Dedalus, Leopold Bloom and his wife Molly. Ulysses has been labelled dirty, blasphemous and unreadable. In a famous 1933 court decision, Judge John M. Woolsey declared it an emetic book-although he found it not quite obscene enough to disallow i
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Unfree Speech
Joshua Wong
"An urgent manifesto for global democracy from Joshua Wong, the twenty-three-year-old phenomenon leading Hong Kong's protests, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee"--
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Was bleibt
Christa Wolf
Banned in East Germany (DDR)
Watchmen
Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons
Banned in Singapore
We
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Banned in Soviet Union
We Are Arrested
Can Dündar
Banned in Turkey
We Killed Mangy-Dog and Other Stories
Luís Bernardo Honwana
Banned in Mozambique
We Uyghurs Have No Say
Ilham Tohti
Banned in China
What If It's Us
Becky Albertalli & Adam Silvera
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Wild Swans
Jung Chang
"Jung Chang vividly evokes China's sights, sounds, and smells to create what must be one of the grimmest, yet most perceptive accounts of growing up middle-class in the maelstrom that has swept China since the 1920s." - Back cover.
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Will the Boat Sink the Water
Chen Guidi
This unique work of investigative literary journalism is translated into English for the first time. The Chinese prize-winning original sold more than 250,000 copies before it was banned and went on to sell close to ten million copies illegally in China. Subsequently, the authors have been harassed in the courts, forced to terminate their employment, and have had their home stoned by a mob - all because they dared to paint a true portrait of the life of China's peasants." "Chinese journalists Ch
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Wire Harp
Wolf Biermann
Banned in East Germany (DDR)
Woman at Point Zero
Nawal El Saadawi
Banned in 2 countries
Women Without Men
Shahrnush Parsipur
Banned in Iran
Yakhal'inkomo
Mongane Wally Serote
Banned in South Africa
Ye Burka Zemita
Daniachew Worku
Banned in Ethiopia
Z
Vassilis Vassilikos
Banned in Greece
Zero
Ignácio de Loyola Brandão
Banned in Brazil
Zhuan Falun
Li Hongzhi
Handbook on how to be a true person, a good person and how to live well, solve problems with others, attain solidly good health and a clean mind. Based off one of the eight phases of Buddha's existence, known as Turning the Law Wheel.
Banned in China
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis
Banned in Greece