Top 20 Books They Tried To Ban

Thursday 23rd May

Posted at 8:09AM Tuesday 05 Mar 2013

In the wake of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's efforts to censor a tell-all book written by his former lover, we look at 20 books that were famously banned

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