Fat Chuck - Bad Books

Welcome to the books that have been banned or suppressed by governments around the world.

Note: If you're interested in a list of books banned by schools, school boards or libraries, please contact the American Library Association at 1-800-545-2433 (1-888-814-7692 for TDD) or 1-202-628-8410 and ask for the ALA Banned Books List for any year between 1992-present.

If you know more about a government-banned book not included on this list, please let me know by filling out this mini-form. Thank you.

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¤ Malaysia Book Bannings - Multiple Authors ¤ The Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain ¤ The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine ¤ Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ¤ All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque ¤ Analects - Confucius ¤ Animal Farm - George Orwell ¤ The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights - Sir Richard Burton, trans. ¤ Areopagitica - John Milton ¤ The Art of Love (Ars Amatoria) - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) ¤ Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk - Palden Gyatso ¤ Bare-Faced Messiah - Russell Miller ¤ Before Night Falls - Reinaldo Arenas ¤ The Bible (Iban language) ¤ The Bible (King James Version) ¤ Black Beauty - Anna Sewell ¤ The Black Book - Lawrence Durrell ¤ The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution - Roger Williams ¤ Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ¤ Burger's Daughter - Nadine Gordimer ¤ Call of the Wild - Jack London ¤ Candide - Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) ¤ The Canterbury Tales (Modern English) - Geoffrey Chaucer ¤ Child of All Nations - Pramoedya Ananta Toer ¤ Children of the Alley - Naguib Mahfouz ¤ Citizen Tom Paine - Howard Fast ¤ The Committee - Sean McPhilemy ¤ Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau ¤ The Courage to Stand Alone - Wei Jingsheng ¤ The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio ¤ Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End - Frank Snepp ¤ Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Galileo Galilei ¤ Did Six Million Really Die? - Ernst Zundel ¤ Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak ¤ E for Ecstasy - Nicholas Saunders ¤ Escape from Paradise - John & May Chu Harding ¤ Family Limitation - Margaret Sanger ¤ Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland ¤ Footsteps - Pramoedya Ananta Toer ¤ Frankenstein - Mary Shelley ¤ Freedom and Order - Henry Steele Commager ¤ Freedom from Fear and Letters from Burma - Aung Sang Suu Ky ¤ Gengangere - Henrik Ibsen ¤ Giovanni Leone - La Carriera di un Presidente - Camilla Cederna ¤ The Guide of the Perplexed - Moses Maimonides ¤ The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ¤ Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift ¤ Hamlet - William Shakespeare ¤ The Hidden Face of Eve - Women in the Arab World - Nawal El Saadawi ¤ The Hour of Decision - Oswald Spengler ¤ House of Glass - Pramoedya Ananta Toer ¤ Hunter - Andrew McDonald ¤ I was Saddam's Son - Latif Yahya ¤ In the Spirit of Crazy Horse - Peter Matthiessen ¤ Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo ¤ Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan ¤ Jurgen - James Branch Cabell ¤ King Lear - William Shakespeare ¤ The Koran (Quran) ¤ Lady Chatterley's Lover - D. H. Lawrence ¤ Lajja (Shame) - Taslima Nasrin ¤ Last Temptation of Christ - Nikos Kazantzakis ¤ Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman ¤ Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ¤ The Little Red School Book - Hansen and Jensen ¤ Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ¤ Lysistrata - Aristaphenes ¤ The Mass Psychology of Fascism - Dr. Wilhelm Reich ¤ Mein Kampf - Adolf Hitler ¤ Milestones - Sayyid Qutb ¤ Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe ¤ The Mute's Soliloquy - Pramoedya Ananta Toer ¤ The New Testament - William Tyndale, trans. ¤ NOC - Nicholas Anderson ¤ Novel Without a Name - Thu Hng Dng, Duong Thu Huong ¤ The Odyssey - Homer ¤ On the Infinite Universe and Worlds - Giordano Bruno ¤ On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin ¤ One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ¤ Playing for Thrills - Wang Shuo ¤ Powderburns - Cele Castillo ¤ The Prison Where I Live - Ed. Siobhan Dowd ¤ The Provincial Letters - Blaise Pascal ¤ The Quotations of Chairman Mao ¤ Rabbit, Run - John Updike ¤ The Red and the Black - Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) ¤ The Rights of Man - Thomas Paine ¤ Sanctuary - William Faulkner ¤ Sarkhan - Eugeen Burdick and William Lederer ¤ The Satanic Verses - Salman Rushdie ¤ The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne ¤ Secrets - Nuruddin Farah ¤ Singapore's Authoritarian Capitalism - Christopher Lingle ¤ The Sorrow of War - Bao Ninh ¤ Spycatcher - Peter Wright ¤ Steal This Book - Abbie Hoffman ¤ The Stoning of Soraya M. - Freidoune Sahebjam ¤ The Story of O - Pauline Reage (Dominique Aury) ¤ The Story of Zahrah - Hanan al-Shaykh ¤ The Talmud ¤ This Earth of Mankind - Pramoedya Ananta Toer ¤ Tropic of Cancer - Henry Miller ¤ The Turner Diaries - Andrew MacDonald ¤ The Ugly American - William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick ¤ Ulysses - James Joyce ¤ Under African Skies - Ed. Charles R. Larson ¤ Underground Hacking - Suelette Dreyfus ¤ Unintended Consequences - John Ross ¤ United States Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967 - (The "Pentagon Papers") U.S. Department of Defense ¤ Utal Hawa (Strong Breeze) - Taslima Nasrin ¤ The Valachi Papers - Peter Maas ¤ We - Yevgeny Zamyatin ¤ Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence ¤ Yocandra in the Paradise of Nada - Zoe Valdes
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