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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You could have tried a little harder to find links to some of the PD ones.
Fanny Hill and Ars Amatoria are on Project Gutenberg.
Reconstruction Political and Economic 1865-1877 (you should link to one of the better scans, Google Books has problems with images) and Red Network are on archive dot org.
Yes, I don't quite get the reason for including those in the list, unless it's all just rambling about "and they used to censor SEX, can you believe that? but of course, they're still doing it today".
Fanny Hill is not really anything more than a bawdy book, and you can buy it on Amazon; it's a rollicking read but it's not pretending to be anything more elevated than softcore porn.
Ars Amatoria has somewhat higher pretensions, but it allegedly got Ovid in trouble even at the time of its production, and yep you can get it on Amazon too. It's a cynical/realist look at 'how to succeed with the ladies'.
It's so easy to find these that I can't take it seriously to include them in a list of BANNED BOOKS unless a wider point is being made (e.g. "my kinks are perfectly okay and should be legal and what do you mean it's obscene? Yeah the prudes and Puritans banned great literature for flimsy reasons like that, my Japanese hentai is just the same as Ovid!")
Yes, list of banned books should contain books that are actually banned now and here, not in 18th century.
Maybe the books should be sorted by tiers.
Brass: Not found on Amazon
Bronze: Not found in large university library
Silver: Not found in Library of Congress
Gold: Not found on libgen and similar pirate sites
Diamond: Possession will send you to prison in Western country
Diamond tier would be "literal child porn, and a small amount of actual literal Nazi literature in a minority of countries".
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