Banned Bookshelf

Classics

Classics that governments, courts, customs officers, the Catholic Church or their own publishers tried to suppress: from Galileo and Machiavelli on the Vatican's Index to Ulysses, Lady Chatterley's Lover and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Almost all are easy to buy today; each page explains what happened and when. See also are banned books really banned?

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All Quiet on the Western FrontIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Animal FarmIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Berlin AlexanderplatzIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Brave New WorldIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Burger's DaughterIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
CandideIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Children of GebelawiIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Darkness at NoonIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World SystemsIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Doctor ZhivagoIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
FabianIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Fahrenheit 451In printopenlibrary.org ↗
Fanny HillIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Howl and Other PoemsIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Lady Chatterley's LoverIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Leaves of GrassIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
LolitaIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Madame BovaryIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Naked LunchIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Nineteen Eighty-FourIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly SpheresIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Portnoy's ComplaintIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Rights of ManIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
The Catcher in the RyeIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
The Country GirlsIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
The Grapes of WrathIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
The Gulag ArchipelagoIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
The Master and MargaritaIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
The PrinceIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
The Satanic VersesIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
The Well of LonelinessIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
Tropic of CancerIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
UlyssesIn printopenlibrary.org ↗
WeIn printopenlibrary.org ↗