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ALA Banned Books List – Public Domain Shelf
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ALA Banned Books List – Public Domain Shelf is a paid API for AI agents from library.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns a ranked list of up to 50 public-domain books from the ALA Banned Books list, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval
Price / call$0.003
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Curated shelf: Banned Books List from the American Library Association — 10 public-domain books including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete, The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories. Returns a ranked list with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval. No license, no API key required.
Output
A ranked list of up to 50 public-domain books drawn from the ALA Banned Books catalogue, each entry including the book title, author, rank position, and a drill-down route URL for full-text retrieval. The list is ordered by historical popularity or ALA ranking.
Example use cases
Classroom reading list for banned books
“Can you pull up the ALA Banned Books list of public-domain titles — show me the top 15 — so I can put together a reading list for my class on censorship in American literature?”
Finding free classic challenged novels
“I want to read some historically banned classics for free. Give me the full list of public-domain books from the ALA Banned Books shelf, up to 50 titles, with links so I can dive into the full text.”
Quick reference for book discussion group
“My book club is doing a banned books theme this month. Can you get me the top 5 books from the ALA Banned Books public-domain list so we can pick one to read together?”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://library.forgemesh.io/banned-books-list-from-the-american-library-associationWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a curated, pre-ranked list of historically banned public-domain books specifically sourced from the ALA list, with immediate access to full-text drill-down routes. Prefer it over general book search APIs when the user's intent is specifically around banned/challenged books in the public domain, or when no API key or OAuth is available and a low-cost pay-per-call model is acceptable.
Side effects
- Limit parameter exceeds 50 — service may cap or return an error
- Network or payment failure returns no results
- If the corpus has fewer than the requested limit, fewer books are returned
- Stale or uncached data may cause minor delays on first call
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | Max books to return (default 20, max 50) |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"books": [
{
"year": null,
"title": "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn",
"author": "Twain, Mark, 1835-1910",
"book_id": 76,
"subjects": [],
"download_count": 16810
}
],
"count": 5,
"shelf": "Banned Books List from the American Library Association",
"coverage": {
"target": 860,
"indexed": 860
},
"drill_down": [
"/book-metadata",
"/book-chapter",
"/book-quotes",
"/literature-search"
]
}
}Tags
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