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Books banned for political content

Name: Books banned or restricted for political content
Creator: AI Analytics
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

9,813 titles have been banned or restricted for political content across 102 countries — one of eleven stated grounds tracked across the censorship record.

Titles

9,813

Countries

102

Reason

Political content

Most-banned for political content

Ranked by the number of distinct countries that banned or restricted the title citing this reason.

Title	Author	Year	Countries
1984	George Orwell	1949	12
Animal Farm	George Orwell	1945	11
Mein Kampf	Adolf Hitler	1925	6
All Quiet on the Western Front	Erich Maria Remarque	1929	6
The Social Contract	Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1762	4
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	1915	4
The Communist Manifesto	Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx	1848	4
Open Veins of Latin America	Eduardo Galeano	1971	4
Les Misérables	Victor Hugo	1862	4
The Trial	Franz Kafka	1925	3
The Painted Bird	Jerzy Kosiński	1965	3
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	1939	3
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	1947	3
The State and Revolution	Vladimir Lenin	1917	3
For Whom the Bell Tolls	Ernest Hemingway	1940	3
Das Kapital	Karl Marx	1867	3
Zuidersee	Jef Last	1936	2
Wir im fernen Vaterland geboren	E. Mohr	1938	2
What Is to Be Done?	Vladimir Lenin	1902	2
Voici Adolf Hitler	François De Tessan	1938	2
Value, Price and Profit	Karl Marx	1865	2
Twilight of World Capitalism	William Z. Foster	—	2
Too Loud a Solitude	Bohumil Hrabal	1976	2
Theologico-Political Treatise	Baruch Spinoza	1670	2
The Turner Diaries	William Luther Pierce	1978	2
The Tiananmen Papers	Zhang Liang	2001	2
The Spirit of the Laws	Montesquieu	1748	2
The Silence and the Roar	Nihad Sirees	2013	2
The Quiet American	Graham Greene	1955	2
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion	—	1903	2
The Power of the Powerless	Václav Havel	1978	2
The Peaceful Pill Handbook	Philip Nitschke	2006	2
The Jungle	Upton Sinclair	1906	2
The House of Bernarda Alba	Federico García Lorca	1936	2
The Hidden Face of Eve	Nawal El Saadawi	1977	2
The Handmaid's Tale	Margaret Atwood	1985	2
The Gulag Archipelago	Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	1973	2
The Fugitive	Pablo Neruda	—	2
The Captive Mind	Czesław Miłosz	1953	2
The Bible	—	1455	2
The a to Z of the Soviet Union	Alex Page	1945	2
Süd-Ost-Europa	Max Herb	1938	2
Spycatcher	Peter Wright	1987	2
Spanien	Joseph Ch Bonnier	1937	2
Sous la vague hitlérienne	Philippe Barrès	—	2
Sécurité d’abord	Albert Renard	1936	2
Rights of Man	Thomas Paine	1791	2
Rayons et ombres d’Allemagne	Louis Gillet	1937	2
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung	Mao Zedong	1964	2
Problems of Leninism	Stalin	—	2

Where political content is most cited

Country	Titles
Germany	3,632
United States	1,390
Malaysia	1,077
France	1,039
Argentina	641
Hong Kong	626
Russia	324
Belarus	296
India	81
South Africa	65
China	48
Spain	35
New Zealand	34
Singapore	31
Vietnam	29
Soviet Union	26
Israel	25
Indonesia	25
Poland	23
Czechoslovakia	23

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Source: Verboten, built on the banned-books.org Open Censorship Core (CC BY 4.0). Verboten compilation CC BY 4.0.