Academic Book Week 2019

Academic Book Week (#AcBookWeek) is back for a fourth year from 4 – 9 March 2019.

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

Academic Book Week - official website

Each year there is a different theme to initiate wider debate and awareness of the academic book and to highlight the value of such research within the intellectual ecosystem of the UK.

Banned books

This year the theme is 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 planning to support 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!

Get involved

Piqued your interest? Make sure you follow our Twitter feed for more information:

@UoMLibrary - The University of Manchester Library Twitter

If you would like to nominate your favourite significant academic books or texts that have at one time been banned in the UK or worldwide you can vote on the final list of titles here:

Banned Books nominations - Academic Book Week 2019

Results of the public vote will be published in March.