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 34  7.1 Excluded from the children’s room in the Brooklyn, N.Y. Public Library (1876) and the Denver, Colo. Public Library (1876). Confiscated at the USSR border (1930). 
Banned in UK for blasphemy in the 18th Century. 
15 6.8 Banned in China (1931) for portraying animals and humans on the same level; "Animals should not use human language." 
24 6.7 Banned in Nazi Germany for demoralizing and insulting the Wehrmacht. 
Banned in Boston, Mass. (1927) and burned by the Nazis in Germany (1933) because it "deals with low love affairs." 
246 8 Publication delayed in UK because of anti-Stalin theme. Confiscated in Germany by Allied troops. Banned in Malaysia for religious reasons. 
U.S. Customs held up 500 sets of the translation by the French scholar Mardrus, which were imported from England (1927-31). It was confiscated in Cairo, Egypt (1985), on the grounds that it contained obscene passages which posed a threat to the country's moral fabric. 
39 7.7 Banned in the Graves County School District in Mayfield, KY (1986) because it contained "offensive and obscene passages referring to abortion and used God's name in vain." The decision was reversed a week later after intense pressure from the ACLU and considerable negative publicity. Banned at Central High School in Louisville, KY (1994) temporarily because the book uses profanity and questions the existence of God. 
5 9.3 Banned from import in the Soviet Union from 1926 to 1956. Many editions of the Bible have also been banned and burned by civil and religious authorities throughout history. On July 1, 1996, Singapore convicted a woman for possessing the Jehovah's Witness translation of the Bible. A 2000 US government report reported that Burma bans all Bible translations into local indigenous languages. Distributing Bibles, along with other forms of proselytizing by non-Muslims, is also banned in Saudi Arabia. 
11 9.2 Banned in South Africa in 1955 because of the title. 
232 8 Banned in Ireland (1932). Removed from classroom in Miller, MO (1980), because it made promiscuous sex "look like fun".  
19 8.3 Banned because of "anti-religion, language, and discussion of death.” 
Banned in Italy (1929), Yugoslavia (1929), and burned in Nazi bonfires (1932). 
15 8.2 In 1930, U.S. Customs seized Harvard-bound copies of Candide, claiming obscenity. Two Harvard professors defended the work, and it was later admitted in a different edition. In 1944, the US Post Office demanded the omission of Candide from a mailed Concord Books catalog. 
7 6.8 Subjected to revisions in 1928; editions today tend to avoid four letter words. 
160 8.1 Banned in Strongsville, Ohio (1972), but the school board's action was overturned in 1976 by a U.S. District Court. 
240 7.8 Since its publication, this title has been a favorite target of censors. Banned from English classes at the Freeport High School in De Funiak Springs, Fla. (1985) because it is "unacceptable" and "obscene." Banned from the classrooms in Boron, Calif High School (1989) because the book contains profanity. Banned, but later reinstated after community protests at the Windsor Forest High School in Savannah, Ga. (2000).  
In 1973 a book seller in Orem, Utah, was arrested for selling the novel. Charges were later dropped, but the book seller as forced to close the store and relocate to another city. 
11 8 Banned in the Souderton, Pa. Area School District (1992) as inappropriate reading for tenth graders because it is "smut." 
Banned by U.S. Customs in 1929 as injurious to public morality. 
Banned by Pope Urban VIII for heresy and breach of good faith (1633). 
169 8 Ironically, students at the Venado Middle School in Irvine, Calif. received copies of the book with scores of words--mostly "hells" and "damns"--blacked out (the novel is about book burning and censorship). After receiving complaints from parents and being contacted by reporters, school officials said the censored copies would no longer be used (1992). 
53 7.3 The June 1929 issue of Scribner's Magazine, which ran Hemingway's novel, was banned in Boston, Mass. (1929). Banned in Italy (1929) because of its painfully accurate account of the Italian retreat from Caporetto, Italy; banned in Ireland (1939).  
25 7.2 Declared non-mailable by the U.S. Post Office (1940). On Feb. 21, 1973, eleven Turkish book publishers went on trial before an Istanbul martial law tribunal on charges of publishing, possessing, and selling books in violation of an order of the Istanbul martial law command. They faced possible sentences of between one month's and six month's imprisonment "for spreading propaganda unfavorable to the state" and the confiscation of their books. 
31 8.1 A Newbery Award winner, this book was banned for "sexually explicit and occult themes, violence, and references to euthanasia."  
16 8.2 This Pulitzer Prize winning novel was banned from the Anaheim, Calif. Union High School District English classrooms (1978). 
12 7.7 Burned by the St. Louis, Mo. Public Library and barred from the Buffalo, N.Y Public Library (1939) on the grounds that "vulgar words" were used. Banned in Kansas City, Mo. (1939); Kern County, Calif., the scene of Steinbeck's novel, (1939); Ireland (1953); Kanawha, Iowa High School classes (1980); and Morris, Manitoba (1982). 
All seven Harry Potter books have been banned for their depictions of "magic, sorcery, wizardry, witchcraft, Satanism, occult, and sheer evil". 
In highly publicized incidents, this book has been banned as recently as 2001 for "racial depictions". 
13 7.1 Removed from classrooms in Stafford County, Va. Schools (1995) and placed in restricted access in the library because the story contains crude language and encourages children to disobey their parents and other adults. 
13 7.8 Banned from public libraries in Yugoslavia (1929). Burned in the Nazi bonfires because of Sinclair's socialist views (1933). Banned in East Germany (1956) as inimical to communism. Banned in South Korea (1985). 
19 6.9 Now considered to be among Shakespeare's greatest works, Lear was performed in drastically adapted form--Nahum Tate's Restoration version eliminated characters and boasted a happy ending in which Lear is restored to the throne and Cordelia survives. The play was subject to political censorship when it was banned from the English stage from 1788 to 1820, out of respect to King George III's alleged insanity. The tragic ending of King Lear was not restored until 1823, and the character of the fool was finally reintroduced in 1838. 
Banned in Thailand for its criticism of King Bhumibol Adulyadej. 
Banned in Czarist Russia for its Christian anarchist content. 
7 5.5 Ban lifted by the Spanish Index in 1790. Restricted to students of history in the USSR (1926). 
22 6.9 Banned in Spain in 1964 by Pope Pious IX because "family relations are nonexistent." 
5 8.8 Banned in the Sturgis, S. Dak. elementary school classrooms (1993) due to statements considered derogatory to Native Americans. 
184 8.1 Banned as obscene in France (1956-1959), in England (1955-59), in Argentina (1959), and in New Zealand (1960). The South African Directorate of Publications announced on November 27, 1982, that Lolita has been taken off the banned list. 
4 8.8 Banned in the Laytonville, California School District on grounds that this book "criminalizes the forestry industry." 
15 9.4 Burned in Alamagordo, N. Mex. (2001) outside Christ Community Church along with other Tolkien novels as satanic. 
2 0 Banned in Communist states for political reason. Condemned by the American Legion. 
Banned from classrooms in Midland, Michigan in 1980, due to its portrayal of the Jewish character Shylock. It has been similarly banned in the 1930s in schools in Buffalo and Manchester, NY. 
40 7.6 Second most banned book in the U. S. in the 1990s. Banned in Ireland (1953); Syracuse, Ind. (1974); Oil City, Pa. (I 977); Grand Blanc, Mich. (1979); Continental, Ohio (1980) and other communities. 
Banned in Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied countries during World War II. Distributed illegally by various resistance movements. 
Banned in Canada (1949) by personal order of the Minister of National Revenue, who admits he has not read the book through. "I read the parts my staff had marked. I thought they were disgusting." Also banned in Australia (1949). 
4 8.7 Banned in the USA for sexually graphic and violent content. 
Banned from Trinity College in Cambridge, UK (1859); Yugoslavia (1935); Greece (1937). 
5 6 Banned in Ireland in 1962 because the Irish Board of Censors found the work "obscene" and "indecent," objecting particularly to the author's handling of the characters' sexuality, the "explicit sex acts" and "promiscuity." The work was officially banned from sales in Ireland until the introduction of the revised Censorship Publications Bill in 1967. 
1 6 Banned in the UK for supporting the French Revolution. Banned in Czarist Russia after the Decembrist revolt. 
22 6.2 Banned in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Somalia, Sudan, Malaysia, Qatar, Indonesia, South Africa, and India due to its criticism of Islam. Burned in West Yorkshire, England (1989) and temporarily withdrawn from two bookstores on the advice of police. Five people died in riots against the book in Pakistan. In Venezuela, owning or reading it was declared a crime under penalty of 15 months' imprisonment. In Japan, the sale of the English-language edition was banned under the threat of fines. The governments of Bulgaria and Poland also restricted its distribution. 
27 6.8 Banned by Tsar Nicholas I in Russia in 1852 and in U. S. schools in the 1990s for "conflicting with the values of the community". 
170 8.2 Burned in Drake, N. Dak. (1973). Banned in Rochester Mich. because the novel "contains and makes references to religious matters" and thus fell within the ban of the establishment clause. Banned in Levittown, N.Y (1975), North Jackson, Ohio (1979), and Lakeland, Fla. (1982) because of the "book's explicit sexual scenes, violence, and obscene language." 
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. 
33 7.1 Banned in Boston, MA (1930), Ireland (1953), Riverside, CA (1960). Burned in Nazi bonfires (1933). 
0 0 Burned in Cairo, Egypt (1190); Paris, France (1244); and Salamanca, Spain (1490). Pope Gregory IX ordered it burned (1239); Pope Innocent IV ordered King Louis IX of France to burn all copies (1248 and 1254); Pope Benedict XIII ordered the bishops of the Italian dioceses to confiscate all copies (1415); Pope Julius III ordered that Christians reading the Talmud be excommunicated; Pope Clement VIII forbade both "Christians and Jews from owning, reading, buying or circulating Talmudic or Cabbalistic books or other godless writing." (1592) 
287 7.8 Challenged--and temporarily banned--in Eden Valley, Minn.(1977) due to words "damn" and "whore lady" used in the novel. 
11 7 Banned from U.S. Customs (1934). The U.S. Supreme Court found the novel not obscene (1964). Banned in Turkey (1986). 
1 10 Banned in Germany for its Nazi ideolgy theme and Pierce leadership in the American Nazi Party. 
27 7.7 Barred from the United States as obscene for 15 years and was seized by U.S Postal Authorities in 1918 and 1930. The lifting of the ban in 1933 came only after advocates fought for the right to publish the book. Burned in the U.S. (1918), Ireland (1922), Canada (1922), England (1923) and banned in England (1929). 
5 8.8 Banned in the UK and France for criticizing Mercantilism. Comments
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