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Originally Posted by ath
This particular list seems to be based on US prohibitions -- but there's also such a thing as Index Librorum Prohibitorum, the Vatican list of prohibited books, abolished in 1966. It contained (from time to time) authors like Defoe, Voltaire, Copernicus, Kant, Berkeley, and many others.
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Yeah, the Google list is very US-centric. It also doesn't contain things like Mein Kampf or the works of the Marquis de Sade - I have heard (but I'm not positive) that those are banned in many European countries. I would be surprised if they hadn't also been banned in some places in the US, though ;-P
Browsing around the ALA's site, I found this disturbing story from 2005:
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedboo...highschool.htm
It involves a group of parents being allowed to burn copies of "Bless Me, Ultima" that had been used in the English class. I went to high school in Colorado, and also read "Bless Me, Ultima". (And I actually met the author, once). Scary to think that book-burnings still take place in this day and age.