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A listing of books that have been banned under various jurisdictions

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, banned in China^[1]
The Call of the Wild by Jack London, banned in Italy and Yugoslavia in 1929^[2]
Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, banned in the United States until 1959,^[3] in the United Kingdom until 1960^[4] and in Australia through the 1960s^[5]
Lysistrata by Aristophanes, banned in the United States under the 1873 Comstock laws which are no longer enforced.
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, banned in the United States under the 1873 Comstock laws which are no longer enforced.
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, banned in the United States under the 1873 Comstock laws which are no longer enforced.
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland, banned in the United States until a 1966 Supreme Court case revoked charges of obscenity
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley, banned in South Africa in 1955^[6]
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, banned in South Africa - possibly related to its title
The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire was censored in France. Baudelaire was put on trial, and has to pay a fine.

Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1770, banned by United States Customs in 1929
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine, banned in the United Kingdom in 1792, Paine was put on trial, as were publishers.
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, banned in South Africa