Most banned works, proxy-ranked by sales

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. 41
   Another Country

   James Baldwin • 1962

   1,000,000 estimated copies
2. 42
   Droll Stories

   Honore de Balzac • 1832-1837

   1,000,000 estimated copies
3. 43
   El Senor Presidente

   Miguel Angel Asturias • 1946

   1,000,000 estimated copies
4. 44
   Elmer Gantry

   Sinclair Lewis • 1927

   1,000,000 estimated copies
5. 45
   Homage to Catalonia

   George Orwell • 1938

   1,000,000 estimated copies
6. 46
   Howl

   Allen Ginsberg • 1956

   1,000,000 estimated copies
7. 47
   Last Exit to Brooklyn

   Hubert Selby Jr. • 1964

   1,000,000 estimated copies
8. 48
   Looking Backward

   Edward Bellamy • 1888

   1,000,000 estimated copies
9. 49
   Lysistrata

   Aristophanes • 411 BCE

   1,000,000 estimated copies
10. 50
    Naked Lunch

    William S. Burroughs • 1959

    1,000,000 estimated copies
11. 51
    Rights of Man

    Thomas Paine • 1791

    1,000,000 estimated copies
12. 52
    Soul on Ice

    Eldridge Cleaver • 1968

    1,000,000 estimated copies
13. 53
    The First Circle

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn • 1968

    1,000,000 estimated copies
14. 54
    The Open Veins of Latin America

    Eduardo Galeano • 1971

    1,000,000 estimated copies
15. 55
    The Outline of History

    H. G. Wells • 1920

    1,000,000 estimated copies
16. 56
    The Satanic Bible

    Anton LaVey • 1969

    1,000,000 estimated copies
17. 57
    The Stud

    Jackie Collins • 1969

    1,000,000 estimated copies
18. 58
    The Well of Loneliness

    Radclyffe Hall • 1928

    1,000,000 estimated copies
19. 59
    The World Is Full of Married Men

    Jackie Collins • 1968

    1,000,000 estimated copies
20. 60
    Tropic of Cancer

    Henry Miller • 1934

    1,000,000 estimated copies