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Banned and restricted books in Brazil
26 titles have been banned or restricted in Brazil, recorded across 26 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
26
Ban events
26
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
4
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quarup | Antonio Callado | 1967 | 1 |
| Zero | Ignácio de Loyola Brandão | 1975 | 1 |
| Feliz Ano Novo | Rubem Fonseca | 1975 | 1 |
| Em Câmara Lenta | Renato Tapajós | 1977 | 1 |
| Tessa, a Gata | Cassandra Rios | 1965 | 1 |
| Open Veins of Latin America | Eduardo Galeano | 1971 | 1 |
| Captains of the Sands | Jorge Amado | 1937 | 1 |
| Cacau | Jorge Amado | 1933 | 1 |
| Suor | Jorge Amado | 1948 | 1 |
| Happy New Year | Rubem Fonseca | — | 1 |
| The Red and the Black | Stendhal | 1830 | 1 |
| Pedagogy of the Oppressed | Paulo Freire | 1968 | 1 |
| Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla | Carlos Marighella | 1969 | 1 |
| A Volúpia do Pecado | Cassandra Rios | 1948 | 1 |
| Nicoleta Ninfeta | Cassandra Rios | 1969 | 1 |
| Copacabana Posto Seis | Cassandra Rios | — | 1 |
| A Paranóia | Cassandra Rios | — | 1 |
| Carniça | Adelaide Carraro | — | 1 |
| Os Padres Também Amam | Adelaide Carraro | — | 1 |
| A Falência das Elites | Adelaide Carraro | — | 1 |
| A Revolução Brasileira | Caio Prado Júnior | 1966 | 1 |
| O Mundo do Socialismo | Caio Prado Júnior | 1962 | 1 |
| Aracelli, Meu Amor | José Louzeiro | 1976 | 1 |
| Torturas e Torturados | Márcio Moreira Alves | 1967 | 1 |
| Memórias: A Verdade de um Revolucionário | Olympio Mourão Filho | 1978 | 1 |
| Fifty Shades of Grey | E L James | 2011 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 15
- Sexual content
- 5
- Immorality
- 3
- Violence
- 3
- LGBTQ+ content
- 1
- Religious / blasphemy
- 1
By decade
1930s3
1960s8
1970s14
2010s1
Documented bans
All 26 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Memórias: A Verdade de um Revolucionário1978
Em Câmara Lenta1977
Feliz Ano Novo1976
Aracelli, Meu Amor1976
Zero1975
Happy New Year1975
Open Veins of Latin America1974
A Volúpia do Pecado1970
Nicoleta Ninfeta1970
Copacabana Posto Seis1970
A Paranóia1970
Carniça1970
Os Padres Também Amam1970
A Falência das Elites1970
Quarup1969
Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla1969–1985
Tessa, a Gata1968
Pedagogy of the Oppressed1968–1985
Torturas e Torturados1968
A Revolução Brasileira1966
The Red and the Black1964
O Mundo do Socialismo1964
Captains of the Sands1937
Cacau1937
Suor1937
Fifty Shades of Grey2013
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.