List of banned books

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The Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books") is a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored for being a danger to itself and the faith of its members. The various editions also contain the rules of the Church relating to the reading, selling and censorship of books. The aim of the list was to prevent the reading of immoral books or works containing theological errors and to prevent the corruption of the faithful.

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Banned books are books to which free access is not permitted. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, and often has political, religious or moral motivations.

Bans on books can be enacted at the national or subnational level, and can carry legal penalties for their infraction. Books may also be challenged at a local, community level. As a result, books can be removed from schools or libraries, although these bans do not extend outside of that area. Similarly, religions may issue lists of banned books – a historical example being the Roman Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum – which do not always carry legal force.

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Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Age of Reason	Thomas Paine	Philosophical Treatise	Banned in UK for blasphemy in the 18th Century
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	Anti-war Novel	Banned in Nazi Germany for demoralizing and insulting the Wehrmacht.
The Anarchist Cookbook	William Powell (author)	Guide Book	Banned outside of the US because of security reasons. Sale of the book is prohibited to any one under 21 in some areas.
Animal Farm	George Orwell	Political Novella	Publication delayed in UK because of anti-Stalin theme. Confiscated in Germany by Allied troops. Banned in Malaysia for religious reasons.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	Novel	Banned in some US schools for use of racial slurs.

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
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>
The Kingdom of God Is Within You	Leo Tolstoy	Religious Treatise	Banned in Czarist Russia for its Christian anarchist content.

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
Lady Chatterley's Lover	D. H. Lawrence	Novel	Temporarily banned in the United States and UK for violation of obscenity laws. Banned in Australia.
A Light in the Attic	Shel Silverstein	Poetry Collection	Banned from libraries for encouraging children to misbehave.
Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov	Novel	Banned in Iran and Saudi Arabia for its content of pedophilia.
The Lorax	Dr. Seuss	Children's Book	Banned in parts of the US for being an allegorical political commentary.

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Malay Dilemma	Mahathir bin Mohamad	Political ideology	Banned in Malaysia for its criticism of UMNO and the May 13th Incident.
The Manchurian Candidate	Richard Condon	Political Novel	Banned in Communist states for political reason. Condemned by the American Legion.
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	Political ideology	Possession and sale for historical reasons is legal in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands. Only reproduction is forbidden due to copyrights (held by Bavarian state).
Mephisto	Klaus Mann	Political Novel / Satire	In 1968, Gustaf Gründgens' adopted son Peter Gorski sued Nymphenburger Verlagsbuchhandlung, then the publisher of Mephisto in West Germany. The Federal Constitutional Court of Germany ruled that Gründgens' personal freedom (Article 2 of the Basic Law) was more important than the freedom of art (Article 5).
The Mountain Wreath	Petar II Petrović Njegoš	Drama in verse	Banned in Bosnia schools by Carlos Westendorp<ref>New World Order's Inquisition in Bosnia</ref>.

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	Novel	Banned in the USSR for political reasons. Author was sent into exile.
Of Mice and Men	John Steinbeck	Novel	Banned by some schools and libraries in the United states for promoting "euthanasia" and use of profanity from May 1983 to May 1984, and also in 1993 and 1994.

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	Novel	Banned in India and Muslim nations for blasphemy. Book stores refuse to sell it out of fear. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa calling for the death of Rushdie.
Speak	Laurie Halse Anderson	Novel	Banned in many middle schools and high schools because of the rape of the protagonist, Melinda Sordino and some mention of self-harm.

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
The Turner Diaries	William Luther Pierce	Novel	Book stores and libraries refuse to distribute it because of its racist theme. <ref>[www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Turner_Diaries.asp Extremism in America]</ref> Banned in Germany for its Nazi ideolgy theme and Pierce leadership in the American Nazi Party. Blamed for a number of hate crimes inspired by the novel including the Oklahoma City bombing. <ref>'Turner Diaries' introduced in McVeigh trial</ref>
The Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller	Novel (fictionalized memoir)	Banned in the US in the 1930's and partially through the 80's, seized by US customs for sexually explicit content and vulgarity. The rest of Miller's work was also banned by the United States.<ref>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4489463/</ref>

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin	Harriet Beecher Stowe	Novel	Banned in the Southern States and Czarist Russia. Challenged by the NAACP for its racist portrayal of African Americans and the use of the word "Nigger". <ref>Stowe Debate</ref>
Understanding Islam through Hadis	Ram Swarup	Philosophical Treatise	Banned in India under 153A and 295A of the Indian Penal Code. <ref>Understanding Islam through Hadis</ref>

Title	Author	Type of Literature	Reason
We	Yevgeny Zamyatin	Sci-Fi Novel	Banned in the USSR for political reasons.
The Wealth of Nations	Adam Smith	Economic Treatise	Banned in the UK and France for criticizing Mercantilism. Banned in communist nations for its capitalist content.<ref>An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations</ref>
The Well of Loneliness	Radclyffe Hall	Novel	Banned in the UK in 1928 for its lesbian theme, republished in 1949.
Winds of Change	Reza Pahlavi	Political Science	Banned in Iran for political reasons.

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