banned book
Prohibited reading material
A banned book is one that authorities have prohibited from publication, sale, or circulation.
The term often appears in discussions of censorship and intellectual freedom: Banned Book Week celebrates the right to read.
Books may be banned by governments, schools, or libraries, though the label sometimes applies loosely to works that were merely challenged or restricted rather than formally prohibited.
- censoredSuppressed from publication
- forbiddenNot allowed
- prohibitedOfficially not permitted
- suppressedForcibly held down
- controversialCausing public dispute
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- samizdatsamizdat, underground press, underground newspaper, Charter 77
- book collectingbibliophiles, first editions, first edition, antiquarian, bookplates
- Writer's Lifepen name, pseudonym, ghost writer, muse, writer's block
banned bookrequired reading
Assigned essential literature
recommended reading · textbook · classic literature · bestseller
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