Academic Book Week returns with a focus on banned books

25 Feb 2019

Academic Book Week is back for a fourth year, running between 4 until 9 March

It is a week-long celebration of the diversity, variety and influence of academic books throughout history run by the Booksellers Association.  

This year’s theme is influential books that have been banned; significant academic books or texts widely studied at higher education that have at one time been banned in the UK or worldwide.  

The University of Manchester Library is supporting Academic Book Week by highlighting influential texts, which have been censored over the centuries, paying particular attention to significant books that we hold in our collections.   

To give you a sneaky preview: our highlights include a postmodernist text, a lesbian romance novel, an allegorical novella and arguably the most censored book in history!  

Piqued your interest? Make sure you follow our Twitter feed for more information: @UoMLibrary  and use the hashtag #AcBookWeek

You can nominate your favourite significant academic books or texts that have at one time been banned in the UK or worldwide, Results of the public vote will be published in March.