Banned Books Week 2025
Oct 5-11
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Each day of Banned Books Week 2025 SROP will reveal one giveaway item. (That means a free hand-made DRM-free ebook.)
All of these titles listed here are "bannable works" for one reason or another, and some are more objectionable than others. (We'll let readers decide for themselves what those reasons might be!) Below you will find information about each of the books on offer. Each day of Banned Books Week, another link will be activated. Just visit this page and try one of the links below, on or after the date specified. We'll leave this page and the downloads up for at least 24 hours after the end of Banned Books Week 2025, just to be sure eligible people have a chance to grab something, even if they're a bit late to the party.
You might want to visit this page daily to see if you missed anything of potential interest. But don't tell your friends, this is an exclusive "Fedi" offer only for Mastodon users, not available in stores or through any other social media channels.
All offers are subject to the Smashed-Rat-on-Press terms as explained in our page how to get SROP books.
Potential readers should also carefully study our disclosure statement before downloading anything.
Note: If you need Kindle or other format that isn't EPUB, please let us know. Or you can use Calibre to convert the EPUB to something else.
Sunday, October 5: A Harlot of Venus.
This one is our "flagship product" so to speak. It's a classic and quite the lavishly over-written sword-and-planet type of erotic romp. First in a series of related erotic fantasy novels set on Not Your Grandpa's Mars.
About the Book
GET IT HEREMonday, October 6: A Dancer of Argyre.
The sequel to A Harlot of Venus, which is actually kind of a prequel.
About the Book
GET IT HERETuesday, October 7: The Girl Who Grew Crutches From Seeds.
Magic and a bit of mayhem here, in modern America.
About the Book
GET IT HEREWednesday, October 8: Slightly Shocking Fairy Tales.
Definitely not a book you want to leave lying around the nursery. (But it has been one of our most popular titles!) We present today's offering in two forms: the PDF format has all the images, while the EPUB format has only the text.
About the Book
GET IT HERE (PDF with images)
GET IT HERE (EPUB, no images)Thursday, October 9: The Santa Banana Double Love Suicides.
Warning: Drug use! Aliens! Berkeley!
About the Book
GET IT HEREFriday, October 10: My Afternoon of Squeezing Persephone's Pomegranates.
Poetry by SROP icon Mantissa Etherbright. (And if you ask nicely, you could also get one of Mantissa's other books by following the breadcrumbs.)
About the Book
GET IT HEREFriday, October 10 Bonus!: Hoard of the Flies.
A uniquely posh literary experience.
About the Book
GET IT HERESaturday, October 11: An Uncommon Surfeit of Lipstick.
Of course you've wondered about college life in Berkeley, with a fairy god mother and friends.
About the Book
GET IT HEREThe end.
The end...