Regime-banned books are in school libraries and on indigo bookshelves at eye level for children.
REAL banned books are often decades out of print, going for hundreds of dollars used on eBay, they've been disappeared by publishers and distributors in spite of interest and demand. Others have authors who've died or been imprisoned for their ideas, yet more have been removed from city or university-wide library systems so that their "Misinformation" and "Lies" do not poison impressionable scholars.
Yet more are suppressed algorithmically, not appearing on the author's wikipedia page and not appearing in Google search if you type the author and "book" or "memoirs"... but only appearing when you already know the full title of the work (try this yourself: Type in "Pinochet Memoirs", and then type in "Pinochet: A journey through a life")
Yet others are explicitly banned, some to the point where a mere PDF on your hard drive can result in a decade-long sentence... IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, NEW ZEALAND, and AUSTRIA.
This has been a massive project. over 200 titles on the full list and 10,000 words in my "Cursory" survey.
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UPDATE: Also Checkout My Addendum to The Real Banned Book list on Holocaust Revisionist Liturature
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You already have some material on this theme, so here's another potential lead. On the basis that owning books was the basis for this spurious imprisonment of a non-terrorist under terrorism offences in the UK, looking up what books he was imprisoned for owning (in addition to the Anarchist Cookbook, which is already listed) should contribute a few new additions.
For LGBT rights and "gay extremism", I suggest something tangentially related in Larry Kramer. Celebrated at the time and yet also wildly controversial, and probably something that LGBT rights groups would rather be forgotten now due to his scathing criticism of gay promiscuity. However, I am not sure if anything he written counts as a banned book. Faggots was alledgedly banned from a gay bookstore, but I haven't been able to follow the source for that.
As for near-future bannings, I wonder if Giorgio Agamben's works will end up on the chopping block after he dared to apply Foucault's ideas of Biopower to the sacred cow of covid restrictions.
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