Religious
The Catholic Church's Index Librorum Prohibitorum, maintained from 1559 to 1966, included Galileo, Copernicus, Descartes, Locke, Voltaire, and Hume — essentially the entire intellectual foundation of the modern world. Religious censorship remains active: blasphemy laws are still enforceable in over 70 countries, and the 1989 fatwa against Salman Rushdie demonstrated that a religious edict could make an author a global fugitive. Books in this category threatened not just faith, but the institutional power structures that depended on it.
23 Years: A Study of the Prophetic Career of Mohammad
Ali Dashti
A Banquet for Seaweed
Haidar Haidar
A Dream of Good Death
Yi Mun-yol
A Feast for the Seaweeds
Haidar Haidar
A Wrinkle in Time
Madeleine L'Engle
Adama
Turki al-Hamad
Amar Meyebela
Taslima Nasrin
Angarey
Sajjad Zaheer
Angela's Ashes
Frank McCourt
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
Being and Nothingness
Jean-Paul Sartre
Bless Me, Ultima
Rudolfo Anaya
Bridge to Terabithia
Katherine Paterson
Candide
Voltaire
Children of the Alley
Naguib Mahfouz
De Monarchia
Dante Alighieri
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Nicolaus Copernicus
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Galileo Galilei
Discourse on Method
René Descartes
Dwikhandita
Taslima Nasrin
Elmer Gantry
Sinclair Lewis
Emile, or On Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Encyclopédie
Denis Diderot
God Dies by the Nile
Nawal El Saadawi
God Is Red
Liao Yiwu
Haji Agha
Sadegh Hedayat
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
J.K. Rowling
I Am Malala
Malala Yousafzai
Ka
Taslima Nasrin
Lajja
Taslima Nasrin
Les Fleurs du Mal
Charles Baudelaire
Les Misérables
Victor Hugo
Letters Concerning the English Nation
Voltaire
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Meditations on First Philosophy
René Descartes
Noli Me Tángere
José Rizal
On Islam
Ahmad Kasravi
On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
Nicolaus Copernicus
One Thousand and One Nights
Anonymous
Pensées
Blaise Pascal
Persepolis
Marjane Satrapi
Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire
Rama Retold
Aubrey Menen
Rangila Rasul
M.A. Chamupati
Shame
Taslima Nasrin
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
James Laine
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Snow
Orhan Pamuk
Taseer of Lahore
Jugnu Mohsin
The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Autobiography of a Yogi
Paramahansa Yogananda
The Bible
Various Authors
The Crime of Father Amaro
José Maria de Eça de Queirós
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
The Descent of Man
Charles Darwin
The Diary of a Young Girl
Anne Frank
The Forty Rules of Love
Elif Şafak
The Giver
Lois Lowry
The Golden Compass
Philip Pullman
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
José Saramago
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins
The Incoherence of the Incoherence
Ibn Rushd (Averroës)
The Islamic State: A Brief Introduction
Charles Lister
The Jewel of Medina
Sherry Jones
The Kite Runner
Khaled Hosseini
The Last Temptation of Christ
Nikos Kazantzakis
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
The Monk
Matthew Lewis
The Philosophy of the Teachings of Islam
Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
The Power and the Glory
Graham Greene
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Quran
Various Authors
The Red and the Black
Stendhal
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Mohsin Hamid
The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir
The Social Contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Spirit of the Laws
Montesquieu
The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Swallows of Kabul
Yasmina Khadra
The System of Nature
Baron d'Holbach
The Tragic Sense of Life
Miguel de Unamuno
The Witches
Roald Dahl
The Yacoubian Building
Alaa Al Aswany
Theologico-Political Treatise
Baruch Spinoza
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Two Treatises of Government
John Locke
Zhuan Falun
Li Hongzhi
Zorba the Greek
Nikos Kazantzakis