Books the Church Banned

For four centuries the Catholic Church kept an official list of forbidden reading. These public-domain authors — Machiavelli, Hugo, Dumas, Darwin — all made the Index.

On the Index of Forbidden Books

In this collection

• The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
• Discourses on Livy
• Twenty Years After
• La Constantin
• Hans of Iceland, Volume 2
• The Cenci
• The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard
• Tour Through the Eastern Counties of England, 1722
• Urbain Grandier
• The True-Born Englishman
• The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
• Augusta Triumphans
• Hans of Iceland, Volume 1
• Chicot the Jester
• The Friendly Daemon
• The Black Tulip
• The Wolf-Leader
• An Appeal to Honour and Justice, Though it be of His Worst Enemies
• Dickory Cronke
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume IV
• Taking The Bastile
• A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed Before
• The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, Volume V
• The Prussian Terror
• Mary Stuart
• The Regent's Daughter
• The Marquise de Ganges
• A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal
• Marguerite de Valois
• My Memoirs Vol. II 1822 to 1825
• Of Captain Misson
• The Corsican Brothers
• Joan of Naples
• Murat
• From London to Land's End

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