# library.forgemesh.io Banned Books from Anne Haight's List

> library.forgemesh.io Banned Books from Anne Haight's List 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 Anne Haight's banned books list, with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://library.forgemesh.io/banned-books-from-anne-haight-s-list
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/library-forgemesh-io-banned-books-from-anne-haight-s-list-c0bb02b4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7ze8SybtlCaNtD3gZzkHn

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability library-forgemesh-io-banned-books-from-anne-haight-s-list-c0bb02b4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the top 30 books from Anne Haight's banned books list — I want to see which classic public-domain titles are on there, like Huckleberry Finn or Sherlock Holmes, so I can pick ones to read?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need a curated, ranked list of publicly available banned books drawn from Anne Haight's historical bibliography. It is ideal for literary research, censorship studies, or building reading lists from classic public-domain works without requiring an API key or license. Prefer it over generic book search APIs when the focus is specifically on banned/challenged literature with full-text access.

## Known failure modes

- Requesting a limit above 50 may be capped or return an error
- Payment not processed (x402 protocol failure) results in access denial
- Service unavailability returns a 5xx error with no book data
- Invalid input type for 'limit' field may return a validation error

## How this service works

Curated shelf: Banned Books from Anne Haight's list — 41 public-domain books including The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete. 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 from Anne Haight's banned books bibliography, including titles such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, along with drill-down routes for full-text retrieval of each title.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "description": "Max books to return (default 20, max 50)"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "books": [
   {
    "year": null,
    "title": "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes",
    "author": "Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930",
    "book_id": 1661,
    "subjects": [],
    "download_count": 23345
   }
  ],
  "count": 5,
  "shelf": "Banned Books from Anne Haight's list",
  "coverage": {
   "target": 860,
   "indexed": 860
  },
  "drill_down": [
   "/book-metadata",
   "/book-chapter",
   "/book-quotes",
   "/literature-search"
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

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