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Banned and restricted books in Poland
25 titles have been banned or restricted in Poland, recorded across 25 dated, source-cited events, most often for political content.
Titles
25
Ban events
25
Top reason
Political content
Decades active
6
Most-restricted titles
| Title | Author | Year | Events |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Painted Bird | Jerzy Kosiński | 1965 | 1 |
| The Captive Mind | Czesław Miłosz | 1953 | 1 |
| Bells in Winter | Czesław Miłosz | 1978 | 1 |
| The Seizure of Power | Czesław Miłosz | 1953 | 1 |
| My Century | Aleksander Wat | 1977 | 1 |
| The Canary and Other Tales of Martial Law | Marek Nowakowski | 1981 | 1 |
| Tango | Sławomir Mrożek | 1964 | 1 |
| The Tin Drum | Günter Grass | 1959 | 1 |
| A Minor Apocalypse | Tadeusz Konwicki | 1979 | 1 |
| Mirror of the Polish Crown | Sebastian Miczyński | 1618 | 1 |
| Death of a City | Władysław Szpilman | — | 1 |
| Letters from Prison and Other Essays | Adam Michnik | 1985 | 1 |
| A World Apart | Gustaw Herling-Grudziński | 1953 | 1 |
| Ferdydurke | Witold Gombrowicz | 1937 | 1 |
| Trans-Atlantyk | Witold Gombrowicz | 1953 | 1 |
| The Issa Valley | Czesław Miłosz | 1955 | 1 |
| Main Currents of Marxism | Leszek Kołakowski | 1976 | 1 |
| The Katyn Wood Murders | Józef Mackiewicz | 1948 | 1 |
| The Eighth Day of the Week | Marek Hłasko | 1957 | 1 |
| Kompleks polski | Tadeusz Konwicki | 1977 | 1 |
| Siedem dalekich rejsów | Leopold Tyrmand | 1959 | 1 |
| Animal Farm | George Orwell | 1945 | 1 |
| 1984 | George Orwell | 1949 | 1 |
| The Gulag Archipelago | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn | 1973 | 1 |
| Sophie's Choice | William Styron | 1979 | 1 |
Stated reasons
- Political content
- 23
- Sexual content
- 1
- Violence
- 1
- Race / colonialism
- 1
By decade
1610s1
1940s5
1950s7
1960s3
1970s6
1980s2
Documented bans
All 25 recorded events, most severe and most recent first.
The Canary and Other Tales of Martial Law1981
Letters from Prison and Other Essays1980–1989
A Minor Apocalypse1979
Bells in Winter1978
My Century1977
Main Currents of Marxism1976
The Gulag Archipelago1974
The Painted Bird1965
Tango1965
Siedem dalekich rejsów1961
The Tin Drum1959
The Eighth Day of the Week1957
The Issa Valley1955
The Captive Mind1953
The Seizure of Power1953
A World Apart1953
Trans-Atlantyk1953
Ferdydurke1949
19841949
The Katyn Wood Murders1948
Animal Farm1948
Death of a City1946–1998
Mirror of the Polish Crown1618
Sophie's Choice—
Kompleks polski1977
Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.