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Most banned works, proxy-ranked by sales

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This ranking is still a proxy. For now it sorts the current corpus by estimated copies sold, while the long-term plan is to rank by breadth, duration, and population affected by government bans.

  1. 61
    We

    Yevgeny Zamyatin • 1924

    1,000,000 estimated copies
  2. 62
    A Short History of the World

    H. G. Wells • 1922

    500,000 estimated copies
  3. 63
    Areopagitica

    John Milton • 1644

    500,000 estimated copies
  4. 64
    Black Power: The Politics of Liberation

    Stokely Carmichael, Charles V. Hamilton • 1967

    500,000 estimated copies
  5. 65
    Borstal Boy

    Brendan Behan • 1958

    500,000 estimated copies
  6. 66 500,000 estimated copies
  7. 67
    Clandestine in Chile

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez • 1986

    500,000 estimated copies
  8. 68
    The 120 Days of Sodom

    Marquis de Sade • 1904 publication of an 18th-century manuscript

    500,000 estimated copies
  9. 69
    The Iron Heel

    Jack London • 1908

    500,000 estimated copies
  10. 70 500,000 estimated copies
  11. 71
    The Turner Diaries

    William Luther Pierce • 1978

    500,000 estimated copies
  12. 72
    Why We Can't Wait

    Martin Luther King Jr. • 1964

    500,000 estimated copies
  13. 73
    A World of Strangers

    Nadine Gordimer • 1958

    300,000 estimated copies
  14. 74
    How to Read Donald Duck

    Ariel Dorfman, Armand Mattelart • 1971

    300,000 estimated copies
  15. 75
    Lajja

    Taslima Nasrin • 1993

    300,000 estimated copies
  16. 76
    The Mountain Wreath

    Petar II Petrovic-Njegos • 1847

    300,000 estimated copies
  17. 77
    Ecstasy and Me

    Hedy Lamarr • 1966

    200,000 estimated copies
  18. 78
    Lost Girls

    Alan Moore, Melinda Gebbie • 2006

    200,000 estimated copies
  19. 79
    The Laws of Life

    Marie Stopes • 1921

    200,000 estimated copies
  20. 80
    The Peaceful Pill Handbook

    Philip Nitschke, Fiona Stewart • 2007

    200,000 estimated copies