Dua Lipa's Manifesto Library, 100 Banned, Controversial Books

Dua Lipa’s Manifesto Library, 100 Banned, Controversial Books

Dua Lipa’s Manifesto Library is a permanent collection of 100 banned, challenged, censored, or controversial books housed inside the historic Livraria Lello bookstore in Porto, Portugal. It opened on June 27, 2026, as part of the BABELL – City of Books literary festival and serves as the first physical home for her Service95 Book Club.

A “shrine to books that have disappeared” and a stand against censorship. Dua Lipa describes it as a space for books that “ask questions, or have been questioned” — often banned for themes of race, sexuality, politics, or identity, or because their authors faced persecution or death.

Themes (the 100 books are grouped into these four categories):
Power — Questions who holds power and who gets to speak.
Control — Explores surveillance, propaganda, ideology, and institutional pressure.
Voice — Amplifies marginalized perspectives and identity.
Memory — Preserves history, trauma, and collective remembrance.

Inside Livraria Lello (a stunning 120-year-old bookstore). It’s a dedicated space where visitors can read, discuss, and even help shape the collection over time.

The best places to find these books online are:
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Book Title	Author	Theme
1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)	George Orwell	Power
A Case of Exploding Mangoes	Mohammed Hanif	Power
A Clockwork Orange	Anthony Burgess	Control
A Dictator Calls	Ismail Kadare	Power
A History of Reading	Alberto Manguel	Power
A Thousand Splendid Suns	Khaled Hosseini	Voice
Ai Weiwei on Censorship	Ai Weiwei	Control
Animal Farm	George Orwell	Control
Another Country	James Baldwin	Voice
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret	Judy Blume	Voice
Beloved	Toni Morrison	Memory
Blindness	José Saramago	Control
Born a Crime	Trevor Noah	Voice
Brave New World	Aldous Huxley	Control
Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work	Sarah Wynn-Williams	Control
Decolonising the Mind	Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o	Voice
Erasure	Percival Everett	Voice
Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury	Control
Felon	Reginald Dwayne Betts	Power
Free	Lea Ypi	Power
Gender Queer	Maia Kobabe	Voice
Girl, Woman, Other	Bernardine Evaristo	Voice
Glory	NoViolet Bulawayo	Power
Half of a Yellow Sun	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	Memory
Hard Like Water	Yan Lianke	Voice
Heartstopper	Alice Oseman	Voice
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings	Maya Angelou	Voice
In Cold Blood	Truman Capote	Power
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	Voice
Istanbul: Memories and the City	Orhan Pamuk	Memory
Jerusalem	Gonçalo M. Tavares	Power
Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World	Tom Burgis	Power
Looking at Women Looking at War	Victoria Amelina	Memory
Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books	Kirsten Miller	Power
Maus	Art Spiegelman	Memory
Men Who Hate Women	Laura Bates	Power
Milk and Honey	Rupi Kaur	Voice
My Friends	Hisham Matar	Voice
My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird	Afghan Women	Voice
Naked Lunch	William S. Burroughs	Control
Nineteen Minutes	Jodi Picoult	Voice
Oblivion: A Memoir	Héctor Abad Faciolince	Memory
Olhos d’Água	Conceição Evaristo	Voice
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous	Ocean Vuong	Voice
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This	Omar El-Akkad	Power
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest	Ken Kesey	Control
One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel García Márquez	Memory
Pachinko	Min Jin Lee	Memory
Patriot	Alexei Navalny	Memory
Persepolis	Marjane Satrapi	Memory
Putin’s Russia	Anna Politkovskaya	Power
Soldiers of Salamis	Javier Cercas	Memory
Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You	Jason Reynolds and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi	Voice
Swimming in the Dark	Tomasz Jędrowski	Voice
That Hair	Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida	Voice
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian	Sherman Alexie	Voice
The Accusation	Bandi	Control
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain	Voice
The Bastard of Istanbul	Elif Shafak	Memory
The Book Thief	Markus Zusak	Memory
The Books of Jacob	Olga Tokarczuk	Memory
The Burnout Society	Byung-Chul Han	Control
The Color Purple	Alice Walker	Voice
The Crucible	Arthur Miller	Power
The Dark Side of Skin	Jeferson Tenório	Voice
The Diary of a Young Girl	Anne Frank	Memory
The Feast of the Goat	Mario Vargas Llosa	Power
The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	Voice
The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck	Power
The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood	Control
The Hate U Give	Angie Thomas	Voice
The House of the Spirits	Isabel Allende	Memory
The Hunger Games	Suzanne Collins	Control
The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger	Voice
The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini	Memory
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon	Richard Zimler	Memory
The Machine to Make Spaniards	Valter Hugo Mãe	Memory
The Melancholy of Resistance	László Krasznahorkai	Control
The Memory Police	Yōko Ogawa	Control
The Metamorphosis	Franz Kafka	Voice
The Most Secret Memory of Men	Mohamed Mbougar Sarr	Memory
The Murmuring Coast	Lídia Jorge	Memory
The Noise of Time	Julian Barnes	Control
The Return	Dulce Maria Cardoso	Memory
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	Voice
The Second Sex	Simone de Beauvoir	Power
The Sympathizer	Viet Thanh Nguyen	Memory
The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters	Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa	Voice
The Trial	Franz Kafka	Control
The Unbearable Lightness of Being	Milan Kundera	Memory
The Vegetarian	Han Kang	Voice
Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston	Voice
There There	Tommy Orange	Voice
Things Fall Apart	Chinua Achebe	Voice
This Book Is Gay	Juno Dawson	Voice
To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee	Voice
Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act	Joshua Wong and Jason Y. Ng	Power
We Are Displaced	Malala Yousafzai	Voice
We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth	Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam Bailey	Voice
Wild Swans	Jung Chang	Memory

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