Most Banned Books in History
Most Banned Books In History is a structured books dataset with 24 entries. Its fields include Title, Author, Published. Community voting appears as a separate signal beside eligible rows and does not replace the source values.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 24 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Title, Author, Published, Reason Banned, Notably Banned In.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Published span
- 1884 to 2019
- Across 24 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Title, Author, and Published across books entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 24 downloadable records
Title↕ | Author↕ | Published↕ | Reason Banned↕ | Notably Banned In↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Ulysses | James Joyce | 1922 | Obscenity | United States, United Kingdom |
Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 1928 | Obscenity | United Kingdom, Australia |
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | Sexual content | France, United Kingdom |
The Satanic Verses | Salman Rushdie | 1988 | Religious offense | Iran, India, Pakistan |
Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 | Obscenity | United States |
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Mark Twain | 1884 | Language / racial slurs | Various US schools |
To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | 1960 | Language / racial themes | Various US schools |
1984 | George Orwell | 1949 | Political content | Soviet Union |
Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 | Political allegory | Soviet Union, UAE |
The Catcher in the Rye | J.D. Salinger | 1951 | Profanity / sexuality | Various US schools |
Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | Sexual content | Ireland, India |
The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck | 1939 | Political / vulgar | Kern County, California |
Slaughterhouse-Five | Kurt Vonnegut | 1969 | Language / violence | Various US schools |
Beloved | Toni Morrison | 1987 | Violence / sexual content | Various US schools |
The Color Purple | Alice Walker | 1982 | Sexual content / language | Various US schools |
Fahrenheit 451 | Ray Bradbury | 1953 | Language / themes | Various US schools |
Harry Potter series | J.K. Rowling | 1997 | Witchcraft | UAE, various US schools |
Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler | 1925 | Hate speech | Germany (until 2016), Netherlands |
The Da Vinci Code | Dan Brown | 2003 | Religious offense | Lebanon |
The Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | 1947 | Sexual passages | Lebanon, various US schools |
Of Mice and Men | John Steinbeck | 1937 | Profanity / racial slurs | Various US schools |
Doctor Zhivago | Boris Pasternak | 1957 | Anti-Soviet | Soviet Union |
The Kite Runner | Khaled Hosseini | 2003 | Violence / sexual content | Various US schools |
Gender Queer | Maia Kobabe | 2019 | Sexual content / LGBTQ | Various US schools |
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How is Most Banned Books in History organized?
The table starts in the source data's order. Community voting is enabled as a separate approval signal beside eligible rows; votes do not replace the source values.
How much data is available on this page?
This dataset contains 24 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
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Yes. CSV, JSON, and Excel downloads contain all 24 rows. Before republishing the data, review the source and any usage terms listed on this page; dtbse does not replace the original source's licensing terms.
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