Dua Lipa Just Opened a Permanent Library of 100 Banned Books Inside One of the Most Beautiful Bookstores in the World

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Updated 3 minutes ago, July 27, 2026

Dua Lipa has turned one of the world’s most celebrated bookstores into a permanent home for literature that’s been silenced elsewhere.

Dua Lipa wearing Schiaparelli SS26 Couture and Bvlgari jewelry arrives at the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party (98th Annual Academy Awards) Hosted By Mark Guiducci held at the David Geffen Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) at 5905 Wilshire Blvd on March 15, 2026 in Museum Row, Miracle Mile, Los Angeles, California, United States.

It’s called The Manifesto Library, and it lives inside Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal. It’s a permanent collection of around 100 books that have been banned, censored, or challenged somewhere in the world.

Rows of books line the shelves of a bookstore, photographed in December 2020. Photo by Bruno Coelho / stock.adobe.com.

The shelves are organized around four ideas: Power, Control, Voice, and Memory.

Among the titles are Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Reginald Dwayne Betts’ Felon, and work by Salman Rushdie and Olga Tokarczuk.

Every book in the collection was pulled, protested, or silenced somewhere else. Here, they get a permanent home.

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