Portal:Banned books

Banned books
A listing of books that have been banned under various jurisdictions

Fiction

 * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, banned in China
 * The Call of the Wild by Jack London, banned in Italy and Yugoslavia in 1929
 * Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, banned in the United States until 1959, in the United Kingdom until 1960 and in Australia through the 1960s
 * Lysistrata by Aristophanes, banned in the United States under the 1873 Comstock laws which are no longer enforced.
 * Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, banned in the United States under the 1873 Comstock laws which are no longer enforced.
 * The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, banned in the United States under the 1873 Comstock laws which are no longer enforced.
 * Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland, banned in the United States until a 1966 Supreme Court case revoked charges of obscenity
 * Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, banned in South Africa in 1955
 * Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, banned in South Africa - possibly related to its title
 * The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire was censored in France. Baudelaire was put on trial, and has to pay a fine.

Non-fiction

 * Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1770, banned by United States Customs in 1929
 * The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, banned in the United Kingdom in 1792, Paine was put on trial, as were publishers.
 * The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, banned in South Africa

Catholic Church

 * Rules on Prohibited Books from the Council of Trent
 * "Dominici gregis custodiae" by Pius IV, approving the Index of Prohibited Books
 * "Officiorum ac Munerum" by Leo XIII, revoking punishments for reading prohibited books
 * Index librorum prohibitorum‎