As a certified book girlie, I am obsessed with Dua Lipa. Back in June 2023, the singer launched a book club as part of her Service95 platform, and now three years later, she has her own library in the famous bookstore Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal. The library, which is called the Manifesto Library, has 100 books on its shelves that were once banned or controversial.

And in case you don’t immediately get it: That’s kind of a big deal. Here’s everything you need to know about it.

Why is Dua Lipa’s library in Portugal so special?

Though Dua has been booked and busy as of late, she’s still just as committed to promoting reading. She does this with her international Service95 Book Club but also through her own channels. Most recently, Dua’s book club announced that she curated her own library in collaboration with Livraria Lello.

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Sounds cool, but it’s not just a few of Dua’s favorite beach reads. In the announcement post on Instagram, it’s explained how the Manifesto Library “is a space dedicated to books that challenge power, resist censorship, and amplify the voices that others seek to silence.”

Which books are in Dua Lipa’s library?

In total, there are 100 books on the shelves of Dua’s Isd around four key themes: power, control, voice, and memory. All of the titles were once banned or censored, but in Dua’s library, they’re all now celebrated.

Here is the complete list of titles that you’ll find Born a Crimerary:

  1. A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
  2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
  3. A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
  4. A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel
  5. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
  6. Ai Weiwei on Censorship by Ai Weiwei
  7. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  8. Another Country by James Baldwin
  9. Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
  10. Beloved by Toni Morrison
  11. Blindness by José Saramago
  12. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
  13. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  14. Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work by Sarah Wynn-Williams
  15. Decolonising the Mind by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
  16. Erasure by Percival Everett
  17. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
  18. Felon by Reginald Dwayne Betts
  19. Free by Lea Ypi
  20. Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe
  21. Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
  22. Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
  23. Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  24. Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke
  25. Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
  26. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
  27. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
  28. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
  29. Istanbul: Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk
  30. Jerusalem by Gonçalo M. Tavares
  31. Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis
  32. Looking at Women Looking at War by Victoria Amelina
  33. Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller
  34. Maus by Art Spiegelman
  35. Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
  36. Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur
  37. My Friends by Hisham Matar
  38. My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird by Afghan Women
  39. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
  40. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
  41. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
  42. Oblivion: A Memoir by Héctor Abad Faciolince
  43. Olhos d’Água by Conceição Evaristo
  44. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  45. One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El-Akkad
  46. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
  47. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
  48. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
  49. Patriot by Alexei Navalny
  50. Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  51. Putin’s Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
  52. Soldiers of Salamis by Javier Cercas
  53. Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
  54. Swimming in the Dark by Tomasz Jędrowski
  55. That Hair by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida
  56. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
  57. The Accusation by Bandi
  58. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
  59. The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
  60. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
  61. The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
  62. The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
  63. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
  64. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
  65. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
  66. The Dark Side of Skin by Jeferson Tenório
  67. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
  68. The Feast of the Goat by Mario Vargas Llosa
  69. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
  70. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
  71. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
  72. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  73. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
  74. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  75. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
  76. The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler
  77. The Machine to Make Spaniards by Valter Hugo Mãe
  78. The Melancholy of Resistance by László Krasznahorkai
  79. The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa
  80. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
  81. The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
  82. The Murmuring Coast by Lídia Jorge
  83. The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes
  84. The Return by Dulce Maria Cardoso
  85. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
  86. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
  87. The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  88. The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa
  89. The Trial by Franz Kafka
  90. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  91. The Vegetarian by Han Kang
  92. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
  93. There There by Tommy Orange
  94. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
  95. This Book Is Gay by Juno Dawson
  96. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  97. Unfree Speech: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act by Joshua Wong and Jason Y. Ng
  98. We Are Displaced by Malala Yousafzai
  99. We Are Not Numbers: The Voices of Gaza’s Youth by Ahmed Alnaouq and Pam Bailey
  100. Wild Swans by Jung Chang