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| ''[[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.{{Fact|date=August 2008}}
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| ''[[All Quiet on the Western cunt]]'' || [[Erich Maria Remarque]] || Anti-war novel || Banned in Nazi Germany for demoralizing and insulting the [[Wehrmacht]].<ref name="isbn0-8352-1078-2">{{cite book |author=Grannis, Chandler B.; Haight, Anne (Lyon) |title=Banned books, 387 B. C. to 1978 A. D |publisher=R. R. Bowker |location=New York |year=1978 |pages=80 |isbn=0-8352-1078-2 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref>
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| ''[[Andersonville (novel)|Andersonville]]'' || [[MacKinlay Kantor]] || Novel || Banned in many places in the [[United States]] for obscenities and for promoting immorality. <ref name="isbn0-8160-6043-6">{{citebook |author=Karolides, Nicholas J.; Bald, Margaret; Sova, Dawn B. | title=120 Banned Books |publisher=Checkmark Books |location=New York |year=2005 |pages=8-12 |isbn=0-8160-6043-6 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref>
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| ''[[Animal Fart]]'' || [[George Orwell]] || Political novella || Publication delayed in UK because of anti-Stalin theme. Confiscated in [[Allied Occupation Zones in Germany|Germany]] by Allied troops. Banned in 1946 in [[Yugoslavia]]. Also banned in [[Kenya]] in 1991 and in the [[United Arab Emirates]] in 2002.<ref>Karolides et al, p. 13-16</ref>
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| ''[[Areopagitica]]'' || [[John Milton]] || Essay || Banned in England for political reasons.<ref>Karolides et al, p. 16-20</ref>
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| ''[[As I Lay Dying]]'' || [[William Faulkner]] || Novel || Banned in Kentucky for language and for being anti-Christian. <ref name="isbn0-8397-1080-1">{{citebook |author=Noble, William |title=Bookbanning in America: Who Bans Books? - And Why |publisher=Paul S. Eriksson |location=Middlebury, VT |year=1990 |pages=6-8 |isbn=0-8397-1080-1 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref>
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| ''[[Angaray]]'' || [[Sajjad Zaheer]] || Progressive short stories || Banned in 1936 by the British government {{Fact|date=February 2008}}
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===B===
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| ''[[Black Beauty]]'' || [[Anna Sewell]] || Novel || Was banned in South Africa in 1955 because of the use of the word 'nigger' in the title.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://library.dixie.edu/new/whybanned.html|title=Why Were These Books Banned?}}</ref>
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| ''[[Burger's Daughter]]'' || [[Nadine Gordimer]] || Novel || Banned in [[South Africa]] in 1979 for going against the government's racial policies. <ref>Karolides et al, p. 29-32</ref>
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===C===
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| ''[[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".<ref name="fl">{{cite web|url=http://title.forbiddenlibrary.com/|title=Forbidden Library}}</ref>
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| ''[[Call of the Wild]]'' || [[Jack London]] || Novel || Banned in Yugoslavia, and Italy.<ref name="bbo">{{cite web|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html|title=Banned Books Online}}</ref>
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| ''[[Candide]]'' || [[Voltaire]] || Novel || Seized by US Customs in 1930 for obscenity.<ref name="bbo">{{cite web|url=http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html|title=Banned Books Online}}</ref>
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===D===
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| ''[[The Da Vinci Code]]'' || [[Dan Brown]] || Novel || Banned in Lebanon after Catholic leaders deemed it offensive to Christianity. <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3663344.stm]</ref>
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| ''[[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.
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| ''[[The Death of Lorca]]'' || [[Ian Gibson (author)|Ian Gibson]] || Biography, True crime || Banned briefly in Spain. <ref>[http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=620741890&searchurl=nsa%3D1%26isbn%3D0140064737]</ref>
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| ''[[Decent Interval]]'' || [[Frank Snepp]] || Nonfiction || Banned in the [[United States|US]] because the author had published material that, as a former [[CIA]] employee, he was not allowed to publish. <ref>Karolides et al, p. 33-40</ref>
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| ''[[Doctor Zhivago]]'' || [[Boris Pasternak]] || Novel || Banned within the USSR until 1988 for its criticism of the Bolshevik Party. <ref>Karolides et al, p. 40-45</ref>
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| ''[[Droll Stories]]'' || [[Honore de Balzac]] || || Banned in Canada in 1914.<ref>[http://www.cbc.ca/thecurrent/2004/200404/20040419.html CBC's ''The Current''] the whole show blow by blow.</ref>
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===E===
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| ''[[El Señor Presidente]]'' || [[Miguel Angel Asturias]] || Novel || Banned in [[Guatemala]] because it went against the ruling political leaders. <ref>Karolides et al, p. 45-50</ref>
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===F===
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| ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'' || [[Ray Bradbury]] || Novel || {{Fact|date=September 2008}}
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| ''[[Irwin_Schiff#Case_regarding_The_Federal_Mafia|The Federal Mafia]]'' || [[Irwin Schiff]] || Nonfiction || An injunction was issued by a U.S. District Court in Nevada under {{usc|26|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 [[fraud]]ulent.<ref>See also footnote 1, ''United States v. Schiff'', 2008-1 U.S. Tax Cas. (CCH) paragr. 50,111 (9th Cir. 2007), citing ''United States v. Schiff'', 379 F.3d 621, 630 (9th Cir. 2004), regarding the Court's finding that the book ''The Federal Mafia: How the Government Illegally Imposes and Unlawfully Collects Income Taxes'' constituted "fraudulent commercial speech."</ref>
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| ''[[The Freedom Writers Diary]]'' || [[The Freedom Writers]] || Nonfiction || Banned for sexual content.<ref name="suspended">{{cite web|url=http://detentionslip.org/2008/06/teacher-banned-for-using-freedom.html|title="Teacher banned for using 'Freedom Writers' book"|publisher=http://detentionslip.org/2008/06/teacher-banned-for-using-freedom.html}}</ref>
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| ''[[The Fugitive (Perburuan)]]'' || [[Pramoedya Ananta Toer]] || Novel || Banned in [[Indonesia]] for being too communistic and for other political reasons. <ref>Karolides et al, p. 50-57</ref>
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===G===
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| ''[[The God of Small Things (novel)|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]].<ref>{{citeweb|url=http://civilliberty.about.com/od/freespeech/tp/obscenenovels.htm |title=Top 10 "Obscene" Literary Classics}}</ref>
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| ''[[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.<ref>Karolides et al, p 57-71</ref>
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| ''[[The Gulag Archipelago]]'' || [[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn]] || Nonfiction || Banned in the [[Soviet Union]] because it went against the common way of thinking there.<ref>Karolides et al, p 71-78</ref>
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===H===
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|-The Giver Bad Words
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===I===
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===J===
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===K===
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| ''[[The King Never Smiles]]'' || Paul M. Handley || Biography || Banned in Thailand for its criticism of King [[Bhumibol Adulyadej]]<ref>Warrick-Alexander, James ([[February 06]], [[2006]]). Thailand Bars Univ. Website. Yale Daily News.</ref>
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===L===
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| ''[[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.<ref name="isbn0-06-097061-8">{{cite book |author=Cleland, John; Rembar, Charles; Miller, Henry |title=The end of obscenity: the trials of Lady Chatterley, Tropic of cancer, and Fanny Hill |publisher=Harper & Row |location=San Francisco |year=1986 |pages= |isbn=0-06-097061-8 |oclc= |doi=}}</ref>
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| ''[[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.<ref name="sambo">{{cite web
|url=http://www.sanftleben.com/Banned%20Books/collection7.html
|title=Banned Books |date=undated |accessdate=2008-09-06}}</ref>
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===M===
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| ''[[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 {{Fact|date=April 2008}}.
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| ''[[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]]<ref name="ringenblum">{{cite book|last=Ringelblum|first= Emanuel |coauthors=Joseph Kermish, Shmuel Krakowski|title=Polish-Jewish Relations During the Second World War|publisher=Northwestern University Press|pages=190|isbn=0810109638}}</ref>
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| ''[[The Mountain Wreath]]'' || [[Petar II Petrović Njegoš]] || Drama in verse || Banned in [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]] schools by [[Carlos Westendorp]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.truthinmedia.org/TruthinMedia/Bulletins/tim98-7-1.html|title=New World Order's Inquisition in Bosnia}}</ref>
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===N===
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| ''[[Naked Lunch]]'' || [[William S. Burroughs]] || Novel || Banned by [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] courts in 1962 for obscenity, but that decision was reversed in 1966 by the [[Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court]].{{fact|date=September 2008}}
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| ''[[Our Friend The King|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.<ref>[http://www.bibliomonde.com/pages/fiche-livre.php3?id_ouvrage=12 Notre ami le roi par Gilles Perrault<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
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===O===
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|''[[Of Mice and Men]].'' || [[John Steinbeck]] || Novel || Due to vulgar language and use of the word "nigger"
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|''[[On the Origins and Perpetual Use of the Legislative Powers of the Apostolic Kings of Hungary in Matters Ecclesiastical]].'' || [[Adam František Kollár|Adam F. Kollár]] || Legal-political || Banned by the Vatican in 1514 for arguments against the political role of the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>Andor Csizmadia, ''Adam Franz Kollár und die ungarische rechtshistorische Forschung.'' 1982.</ref> Original title: ''De Originibus et Usu perpetuo.''
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===P===
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| ''[[The Peaceful Pill Handbook]]'' || [[Philip Nitschke]] and Fiona Stewart || Instructional manual on [[euthanasia]] || It was initially banned in <!--Australia (ref needed -->New Zealand by Office of Film & Literature Classification since it was deemed to be objectionable.<ref> [http://www.censorship.govt.nz/news-archive-current-peacefulpill.html Office of Film & Literature Classification] - "The Peaceful Pill Handbook banned" </ref> 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 [http://www.peacefulpill.com]<ref> http://www.censorship.govt.nz/pdfword/peaceful%20pill%20s38.pdf Office of Film & Literature Classification </ref>
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===R===
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| ''[[Rights of Man]]'' || [[Thomas Paine]] || Political || Banned in the UK and author charged with treason for supporting the French Revolution.<ref name="bbo" /> Banned in Tzarist Russia after the [[Decembrist revolt]].{{fact|date=September 2008}}
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| ''[[Rangila Rasul]]'' || Pt. Chamupati || Religious || Currently banned in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.<ref>''Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850'' by Ayesha Jalal</ref>
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===S===
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| ''[[The Satanic Verses]]'' || [[Salman Rushdie]] || Novel || Banned in Bangladesh, India, Singapore,<ref>{{cite news | url = http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=a0i6xbGIysFQ&refer=asia | title = Singapore will not Allow Publication of Prophet Cartoons | date = [[2006-02-10]] | accessdate = 2007-06-14 | publisher = [[Bloomberg.com]]}}</ref> and Iran for blasphemy.{{fact|date=September 2008}}
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| ''[[Soft Target (Book)|Soft Target: How Indian Intelligence Service Penetrated Canada]]'' || Zuhair Kashmeri & Brian McAndrew || Investigative Journalism || Banned in India.<ref>{{cite web|title=Amazon Soft Target Book listing|url=http://www.amazon.com/Soft-Target-Intelligence-Service-Penetrated/dp/1550289047|accessdate=2007-12-19}}</ref>
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| ''[[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.<ref name="Spycatcher_time_Zuckerman">{{cite web |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,965233,00.html |title=How Not to Silence a Spy |accessdate=2008-01-20 |last=Zuckerman |first=Laurence |date=1987-08-17 |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |publisher=[[Time Warner]]}}</ref><ref name="Spycatcher_bbc2">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/23/newsid_2528000/2528695.stm 1987: Ban lifted on MI5 man's memoirs]</ref>
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===T===
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|-'''| ''[[Thalia (songbook)|Thalia]]'' || [[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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://faculty.wlc.edu/thompson/fourth-century/urkunden/trans33.htm|title=Edict Against Arius|date=333}}</ref> Banned by the Catholic Church for'' the next thousand plus years.{{Fact|date=February 2008}}
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| ''[[Tropic of Cancer (novel)|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.<ref><!--{{cite web|url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4489463/|title=From Henry Miller to Howard Stern|date=2004-03-09}} (link dead) -->[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmnew/is_200403/ai_kepm405643 From Henry Miller to Howard Stern], by [[Patti Davis]], [[Newsweek]], March, 2004</ref> Also banned in South Africa until the late 1980s.{{fact|date=September 2008}}
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| ''[[The Turner Diaries]]'' || [[William Luther Pierce]] || Novel || Book stores and libraries refuse to distribute it because of its racist theme.<ref>{{cite
web|url=http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Turner_Diaries.asp|title=Extremism in America}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cnn.com/US/9704/28/okc/|title='Turner Diaries' introduced in McVeigh trial}}</ref>
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|''[[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.{{fact|date=September 2008}}
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|''[[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.}}
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|''[[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. {<ref>{{cite web|url=|http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/12/20/schools_chief_bans_book_on_penguins/}}</ref>
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===U===
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| ''[[Ulysses (novel)|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]].{{fact|date=September 2008}}
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| ''[[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]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3709/is_199610/ai_n8740719|title=Stowe Debate}}</ref>
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| ''[[Pentagon Papers|United States-Vietnam Relations: 1945-1967]]'' || [[Robert McNamara]] and the [[United States Department of Defense]]|| Government Study || President [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] attempted to suspend publication of classified information. See: [[New York Times Co. v. United States]]{{fact|date=September 2008}}
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===V===
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| ''[[The Valley of the Dolls]]'' || [[ Jacqueline Susann ]] || Novel || Banned ||
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===W===
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| ''[[The Wealth of Nations]]'' || [[Adam Smith]] || Economic treatise || Banned in communist nations {{Fact|date=February 2008}} for its capitalist content.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.econlib.org/library/Smith/smWN.html|title=An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations}}</ref>
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| ''[[The Well of Loneliness]]'' || [[Radclyffe Hall]] || Novel || Banned in the UK in 1928 for its lesbian theme, republished in 1949.<ref>{{cite news | last = Smith | first = David | title = Lesbian novel was 'danger to nation' | work = The Observer | publisher =|date = [[2005]]-[[01-02]] | url = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1382051,00.html | accessdate = 2006-10-09}}</ref>
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| ''[[Where's Waldo?]]'' || [[Martin Handford]] || Children's book || Banned in the USA for a miniature picture of a topless lady tanning on the beach.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thecurrentonline.com/media/paper304/news/2005/10/17/Features/The-Rogue.Librarian.Wheres.Waldo.Not.In.The.Libraries.Because.Hes.Been.Banned-1023500.shtml?norewrite200603281448&sourcedomain=www.thecurrentonline.com|title=The Rogue Librarian: Where's Waldo? Not in the libraries because he's been banned}}</ref>
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===X===
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===Y===
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| ''[[Year 501: The Conquest Continues]]'' || [[Noam Chomsky]] || Politics || Banned in South Korea as one of 23 books banned from Aug 1st 2008.
<ref>[http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/301730.html Military expands book blacklist]</ref>
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| ''[[Zhuan Falun]]'' || [[Li Hongzhi]] || Spiritual || Banned as part of the [[persecution of Falun Gong]], which began in 1999.{{fact|date=September 2008}}
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==See also==
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Revision as of 17:02, 7 October 2008

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,[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.

List of banned gay books

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See also

References

  1. ^ Wachsterber, Ken (2006). Banned Books 4 Book Set. Facts on File. ISBN 0816067791.

External links

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