Forbidden Books

• Index Librorum Prohibitorum in the 16th century. The catholic church forbade some books that could be against their faith

• During European domination by the nazis books were burned by firemen. This probably inspired bradbury's novel, farenheit 451

• During Chinese cultural revolution many books were forbidden and readers were killed

• During Military dictatorship in Brazil books were not forbidden, but many people were known to have disappeared because they were caught with books related to Communism. This "related to" sometimes extended to any red cover book. A student was once in prison for carrying a book on Cubism, as the police thought it was about Cuban revolution.

In fiction

• Umberto Eco's Name of the rose
• Robert Clark Young's One of the Guys
• Farenheit 451

See also

• List of Banned books

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