Censorship map · by country
The Illegal Books Catalog
Every entry below names the work, the country that suppressed it, and the reason — so you can read the book and make your own decision. Nothing here is withheld. Censorship is a fact about power, not a moral judgement.
Liability framing: Babe's Bookstore only serves public-domain / openly-licensed editions. Archive links point at Project Gutenberg, Wikisource and the Internet Archive's public collections. As a user you are responsible for the laws of your own jurisdiction.
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Where to read these, legally
Babe's Bookstore serves public-domain editions of everything on this catalog. If a title here is in-copyright for you but out of copyright for others, the free public archives below are the honest way to find it: