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Forbidden books

Stories centered on relationships, knowledge, or desires that defy societal, familial, or moral boundaries, drawing readers into the tension between longing and taboo.

  1. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (1597)
  2. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1777)
  3. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1800)
  4. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1846)
  5. Atonement by Ian McEwan (2001)
  6. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (2003)
  7. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (1945)
  8. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (1985)
  9. Fingersmith by Sarah Waters (2002)
  10. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (1977)
  11. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (2008)
  12. Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman (2007)
  13. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)
  14. Anna Karenina by Лев Толстой (2016)
  15. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (1970)
  16. Flowers in the Attic by V.C. Andrews (1979)
  17. If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio (2017)
  18. The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)
  19. Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma (2011)
  20. My sister's grave by Robert Dugoni (2014)