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Banned and restricted books in New Zealand
206 titles have been banned or restricted in New Zealand, recorded across 206 dated, source-cited events, most often for obscenity.
Titles
206
Ban events
206
Top reason
Obscenity
Decades active
18
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Anarchist Cookbook | William Powell | 1971 | 1 |
| Show Me | Helga Fleischhauer-Hardt, Will McBride | 1974 | 1 |
| Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov | 1955 | 1 |
| The Peaceful Pill Handbook | Philip Nitschke | 2006 | 1 |
| Into the River | Ted Dawe | 2012 | 1 |
| Nana | Émile Zola | 1880 | 1 |
| Married Love | Marie Stopes | 1918 | 1 |
| The Well of Loneliness | Radclyffe Hall | 1928 | 1 |
| The Decameron | Giovanni Boccaccio | 1353 | 1 |
| Lady Chatterley's Lover | D.H. Lawrence | 1928 | 1 |
| The Communist Manifesto | Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx | 1848 | 1 |
| One Thousand and One Nights | — | 1706 | 1 |
| American Psycho | Bret Easton Ellis | 1991 | 1 |
| Five Nights | Victoria Cross | 1908 | 1 |
| Six Women | Victoria Cross | 1908 | 1 |
| The Yoke | Victoria Cross | 1907 | 1 |
| The Interpretation of Dreams | Sigmund Freud | 1899 | 1 |
| The Perfumed Garden | Richard Francis Burton | 1886 | 1 |
| Wise Parenthood | Marie Stopes | 1918 | 1 |
| How to Prevent Pregnancy | G. Hardy | 1921 | 1 |
| Over Life's Edge | Victoria Cross | 1921 | 1 |
| Sylvia's Marriage | Upton Sinclair | 1914 | 1 |
| La Vie Parisienne | — | — | 1 |
| The Thing | Gertie de S. Wentworth-James | — | 1 |
| Safe Marriage | Ettie Rout | 1922 | 1 |
| The Butcher Shop | Jean Devanny | 1926 | 1 |
| A Handbook of Marxism | Emile Burns | 1935 | 1 |
| The Hindu Art of Love | — | 1932 | 1 |
| The Black Prophet | Guy Fitch Phelps | 1918 | 1 |
| Soviet Foreign Policy: The Meaning of the War in Finland | Vyacheslav Molotov | 1940 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Obscenity
- 112
- Sexual content
- 52
- Political content
- 34
- Immorality
- 13
- Violence
- 11
- Drugs / substance use
- 10
- LGBTQ+ content
- 2
- Religious / blasphemy
- 2
- Race / colonialism
- 1
By decade
1790s1
1810s1
1820s1
1840s1
1880s4
1890s4
1900s7
1910s8
1920s15
1930s9
1940s16
1950s7
1960s39
1970s60
1980s4
1990s12
2000s8
2010s5
Documented bans
A sample of 50 of 206 recorded events, most severe and most recent first. Each links to its source where available.
The Great Replacement2019
Kokonotokoro2017
Oji-san to. / With an Old Guy2017
Natsu no Maboroshi2016
Into the River2015–2015
Pleasant Dripping With Sweat2009
The Peaceful Pill Handbook2008
Little Sister Club 22007
Advanced Techniques of Clandestine Psychedelic & Amphetamine Manufacture2003
Opium for the Masses2002
Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World2002
The Big Book of Buds2002
Holiday Snapshots2000
The Giant Black Book of Computer Viruses1997
Behind Closed Doors1996
The Seventh Acolyte Reader1996
Death Scenes: A Homicide Detective's Scrapbook1996
Diva Obsexion1995
The Great Big Narcotics Cookbook1995
The Anarchist Cookbook1994
Xaviera's Magic Mushrooms1992
American Psycho1991
The World of the American Pit Bull Terrier1991
Click1991
Boobytraps1991
Joy1987
Coming to Power1985
A Different Love1985
Galactic Girl1980
Make it Happy: What Sex is all About1979
Delta of Venus1979
Marijuana Grower's Guide1978
Horney Housewife1978
Men Loving Men1977
Home Workshop Guns for Defense and Resistance Volume 11977
Down Under the Plum Trees1977
More Joy of Sex1976
Xaviera's Supersex1976
Confessions of a Window Cleaner1976
Show Me1975
The Joy of Sex1975
Intimate Embrace1975
Snatches and Lays1975
John and Mimi1975
Ancient and Modern Methods of Growing Extraordinary Marijuana1975
Summer Holiday Sex Manual1975
The Complete Psilocybin Mushroom Cultivator's Bible1975
White Lunch Comix No. 11974
XYZ Comics1974
Over-exposure1973
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.