31 new books added to the official list of those “harmful to national interests”

On August 4, 2025, 31 new books were added to the list of printed publications that, according to the authorities, “may harm the national interests of the Republic of Belarus”:

  • Blood Cruise – Mats Strandberg
  • The Will – Nina Wähä
  • Buttons and Rage: Her Heart. His Revenge – Penelope Sky
  • Buttons and Lace: Her Debt. His Desire – Penelope Sky
  • Topaz – Ryū Murakami
  • Ecstasy – Ryū Murakami
  • Trust Exercise – Susan Choi
  • Dirt Town – Hayley Scrivenor
  • Down Among the Sticks and Bones. Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
  • Every Heart a Doorway – Seanan McGuire
  • Three: A Wicked Bond – Lucky Daye
  • Toy for the Bosses: Updated Edition – Rox Lili
  • Seduce Me – Lucky Daye
  • The Ultimate Guide to BDSM: Erotic Role Playing and the World of Kink – Tristan Taormino
  • If Mom Is Toxic… How to Break Free from Hostile Relationships – Marina Osborne
  • In the Land of Milk Rivers – Sergei Vereskov
  • Dirty Book Club – Lisi Harrison
  • The Secret History – Donna Tartt
  • The Seed of Desire – Anthony Burgess
  • The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
  • Invisible Monsters – Chuck Palahniuk
  • Thirty-Three Abominations – Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
  • Bloody Love: The Story of a Girl Who Killed Her Family for a Man Twice Her Age – Howard Clark
  • The First Day of Spring – Nancy Tucker
  • The Scariest Book: The Guardian – All Shades of Fall – Ivan Belov
  • Life for Sale – Yukio Mishima
  • Marina’s Thirtieth Love – Vladimir Sorokin
  • Russian Gothic – Mikhail Bokov
  • Little Thieves – Margaret Owen
  • East Slavic Urban Legends – Dionizyusz Chubalya
  • There They Are, and Here We Are: Belarusian Poetry and Poems of Solidarity – ed. by V. Korkunov

The full list is available on our website.