The library is celebrating its 150th anniversary with 150 days of activities and events, from December 7, 2022 - May 6, 2023
In collaboration with Gallery 1988, limited edition posters celebrating the library's 150th anniversary were created by graphic designers DKNG.
- Go to your local branch to explore the poster in person.
- Read books featured in this limited edition poster.
- See if you can read all 150 titles as part of the 150th Anniversary Challenge!
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- A Snicker of Magic by Natalie Lloyd
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- Amulet by Kazu Kibuishi
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Dune by Frank Herbert
- Drama by Raina Telgemeier
- There There by Tommy Orange
- The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
- 1984 by George Orwell
- When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Roller Girl by Victoria Jamieson
- Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
- David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
- Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- March by John Lewis
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
- El Deafo by Cece Bell
- The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
- Faust by Wolfgang von Goethe
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren
- Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
- The Odyssey by Homer
- New Kid by Jerry Craft
- Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- Ulysses by James Joyce
- A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
- Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
- Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
- Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift
- Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie
- Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
- A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
- Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
- Echo by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- The Godfather by Mario Puzo
- The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
- Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
- The Adventures of Beekle by Dan Santat
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Emma by Jane Austen
- The Call of the Wild by Jack London
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Esperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz Ryan
- The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
- Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
- The Penderwicks by Jeanne Birdsdall
- Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds
- Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
- Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
- High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
- Watchmen by Alan Moore
- The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
- Hello Universe by Erin Entrada Kelly
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
- Angels in America by Tony Kushner
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- The Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath
- Wonder by R.J. Palacio
- The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
- Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Middlemarch by George Eliot
- Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Chordelos de Laclos
- Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
- Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay
- Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronté
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
- Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Moby Dick by Herman Melville
- Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
- Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
- The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehishi Coates
- Winnie the Pooh by A. A. Milne
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
- Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
- The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
- The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
- The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
- The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Atonement by Ian McEwan
- The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
- The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
- Greenglass House by Kate Milford
- Dog Man by Dav Pilkey
- Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
- The Road by Cormac McCarthy
- Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
- Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley
- Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
—A limited number of posters will be available to purchase from The Library Store.