Banned Books Week | October 5-11, 2025

By Dunedin Public Libraries | Posted: Thursday Oct 09, 2025

These books have a record… of being banned, challenged, or restricted in New Zealand. These rebellious reads are now ready for checkout

• A Way of Love by James Courage (https://bit.ly/46Gx0WD)

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis (https://bit.ly/4nDBdQO)

• Into the River by Ted Dawes (https://bit.ly/4h0L68H)

• Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence (https://bit.ly/48CKrbJ)

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (https://bit.ly/3WoWkdM)

• The Butcher Shop by Jean Devanny (https://bit.ly/3IxOFGY)

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (https://bit.ly/3IDgEVI)

• Ulysses by James Joyce (https://bit.ly/471AtOF)

• Washday at the Pa by Ans Westra and Mark Amery (https://bit.ly/46VceRT)

• We Will Not Cease by Archibald Baxter (https://bit.ly/4h5UUi2)