On Paths Unknown discussion

List resources you've found useful in researching banned books here.

Online resources (general):

Wikipedia's List of books banned by governments

Wikipedia's article on censorship

Beacon for Freedom of Expression, a searchable online database of censored media

The File Room, an artistic project to document censorship hosted since 2001 by the National Coalition Against Censorship

Online resources (specific regions/nations):

Australian Classification Board (you can search for a list of all restricted works in Australia)

Banned Books in Australia (selected list from the University of Melbourne)

The Office for Intellectual Freedom, branch of the American Library Association dedicated to fighting censorship (If anyone figures out how to get to the actual list of US banned and/or challenged books these folks supposedly have been keeping since 1990, please let the rest of us know where it is.)

The Literature Police, website dedicated to the book, contains other resources including a bibliography

New Zealand Office of Censorship, also searchable

Books (general)

All of the writings of Nicholas J. Karolides

Banned Books by Anne Lyon Haight

Books (specific regions/nations)

The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton

The Literature Police: Apartheid Censorship and Its Cultural Consequences by Peter D. McDonald

Paying The Price: Freedom Of Expression In Turkey by Lois Whitman

Not all of these were specifically banned, but it is still an interesting collection of people and books.

http://www.sampsoniaway.org/blog/2011...

Really nice that it focuses on Nobel winners. They seem to get banned a lot. Thanks, Ruth.