BANNED
BANNED
451°F, the temperature at which paper burns
14,368 books banned across 115 countries. Every ban has a year, a reason and a source. Hover the map to see what each one tried to erase.
USSR, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and East Germany bans are drawn on their successor states and tagged "historical".
The most-banned books on Earth, plus one unlucky extra. Hover to burn, click to read the case file.
They burned the books. Hold the list.
Pick what pulls you in. We'll dig through the whole archive.
Opening the archive…
In Bradbury's book, the outcasts memorized whole novels so the fire couldn't take them. The Keeper memorized the censors' records instead. Ask why a book was banned, what a country burned, or which book is next on the pyre.