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Banned and restricted books in Canada
23 titles have been banned or restricted in Canada, recorded across 23 dated, source-cited events, most often for sexual content.
Titles
23
Ban events
23
Top reason
Sexual content
Decades active
11
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Naked and the Dead | Norman Mailer | 1948 | 1 |
| By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept | Elizabeth Smart | 1945 | 1 |
| Droll Stories | Honoré de Balzac | 1832 | 1 |
| The Turner Diaries | William Luther Pierce | 1978 | 1 |
| Peyton Place | Grace Metalious | 1956 | 1 |
| Did Six Million Really Die? | Richard Verrall | 1974 | 1 |
| Brave New World | Aldous Huxley | 1932 | 1 |
| Drama | Raina Telgemeier | 2012 | 1 |
| Lost Girls | Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie | 2006 | 1 |
| The Hoax of the Twentieth Century | Arthur Butz | 1976 | 1 |
| How to Kill (series) | John Minnery | — | 1 |
| Lethal Marriage | Nick Pron | 1995 | 1 |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 1928 | 1 |
| Tropic of Cancer | Henry Miller | 1934 | 1 |
| The Anarchist Cookbook | William Powell | 1971 | 1 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | 1 |
| Asha's Mums | Michele Paulse, Rosamund Elwin | — | 1 |
| Salma Writes a Book | Danny Ramadan | — | 1 |
| Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak | Deborah Ellis | 2004 | 1 |
| 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga | David A. Robertson | 2010 | 1 |
| Suffer Little Children | Derek O'Brien | — | 1 |
| Lives of Girls and Women | Alice Munro | 1971 | 1 |
| Flamer | Mike Curato | 2020 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Sexual content
- 6
- Immorality
- 5
- Obscenity
- 4
- Political content
- 4
- Race / colonialism
- 3
- LGBTQ+ content
- 3
- Violence
- 3
- Offensive language
- 2
- Religious / blasphemy
- 2
By decade
1910s1
1930s1
1940s2
1950s2
1960s1
1970s3
1980s3
1990s2
2000s3
2010s2
2020s2
Documented bans
All 38 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
Flamer2025–2025
Drama2016
Lost Girls2006
Asha's Mums2002–2002
Lethal Marriage1995
The Turner Diaries1980
Did Six Million Really Die?1980
Brave New World1980
The Hoax of the Twentieth Century1976
Lives of Girls and Women1976
How to Kill (series)1973
Lady Chatterley's Lover1962
Peyton Place1956
Lolita1956–1958
The Naked and the Dead1948
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept1945
Tropic of Cancer1938–1964
Droll Stories1914
Salma Writes a Book2024–2024
The Great Bear2022–2022
7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga2018
Pride: Celebrating Diversity & Community2016
A Hatful of Seuss2015
The Graveyard Book Graphic Novel: Volume 12015
Sleeping Dragons All Around2014
The Collected Essex County2011
The Wars2011
Three Wishes: Palestinian and Israeli Children Speak2006
The Waiting Dog2006
Black Like Kyra, White Like Me2000
On the Banks of Plum Creek1997
The Headless Ghost1995
Dance Me Outside1994
Suffer Little Children1991–1992
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz1990
Hold Fast1988
The Anarchist Cookbook—–2002
Alligators All Around—
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