Banned Books

About Banned Books

Every book we make posters for that appears on the American Library Association's lists of the most challenged books in the United States (the Top 100 for 1990 to 1999, 2000 to 2009 and 2010 to 2019). 113 titles, each available in up to six styles.

1. A child called "it" by David J. Pelzer
2. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
3. A Court Of Mist And Fury by Sarah J. Maas
4. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway
5. A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein
6. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
7. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
8. A Time To Kill by John Grisham
9. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
10. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
11. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
12. Animal Farm by George Orwell
13. Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
14. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
15. Beloved by Toni Morrison
16. Black Boy by Richard Wright
17. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
18. Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy
19. Blubber by Judy Blume
20. Bone by Jeff Smith
21. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
22. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
23. Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
24. Burned by Ellen Hopkins
25. Carrie by Stephen King
26. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
27. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
28. Christine by Stephen King
29. Cross Your Fingers, Spit In Your Hat by Alvin Schwartz
30. Drama by Raina Telgemeier
31. Draw Me A Star by Eric Carle
32. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
33. Empire Of Storms by Sarah J. Maas
34. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.
35. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
36. Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James
37. Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
38. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
39. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
40. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel
41. Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
42. Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell
43. Goosebumps by R.L. Stine
44. Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar
45. Grendel by John Gardner
46. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
47. House of Night by P. C. Cast
48. I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
49. Identical by Ellen Hopkins
50. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
51. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
52. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
53. James And The Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
54. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence
55. Less than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
56. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
57. Looking For Alaska by John Green
58. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
59. Lord Of The Flies by William Golding
60. Lord Of The Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
61. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
62. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
63. Native Son by Richard Wright
64. Nickel And Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich
65. Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
66. Of Mice And Men by John Steinbeck
67. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
68. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
69. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor
70. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
71. Snow Falling on Cedars by David Guterson
72. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
73. Sons And Lovers by D.H. Lawrence
74. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
75. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
76. Taming the Star Runner by S. E. Hinton
77. That was then, this is now by S. E. Hinton
78. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie
79. The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
80. The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
81. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
82. The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
83. The Call Of The Wild by Jack London
84. The Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger
85. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
86. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
87. The Dead Zone by Stephen King
88. The Giver by Lois Lowry
89. The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
90. The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck
91. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
93. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
94. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
95. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
96. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
97. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
98. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
99. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
100. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
101. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
102. The Pillars Of The Earth by Ken Follett
103. The rules of attraction by Bret Easton Ellis
104. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
105. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
106. The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
107. The Witches by Roald Dahl
108. Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
109. To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
110. Tricks by Ellen Hopkins
111. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
112. Ulysses by James Joyce
113. Women In Love by D.H. Lawrence

This banned books collection celebrates literature that challenged authority, sparked debate, and faced censorship across generations. Each poster transforms controversial titles into conversation-starting wall art available in six unique styles.

From novels that questioned societal norms to works banned for political content, these are stories that someone, somewhere, tried to silence. The collection spans historical censorship targets and contemporary challenges, representing the ongoing tension between creative expression and institutional control. These aren't just controversial for controversy's sake—each book earned its banned status by pushing boundaries that needed pushing.

The range includes everything from modern dystopian fiction to classic coming-of-age narratives, philosophical works to graphic novels. These are books that classrooms debated, libraries removed, and readers fought to preserve. Whether challenged for language, themes, or ideas, each title represents a moment when literature confronted power.

Available in Modern, Modern Minimalist, Square, Edge, Blurby, and Minimalist styles, these posters let you display literary defiance however it fits your space. Choose the clean geometry of Modern Minimalist or the organic shapes of Edge to match your aesthetic while celebrating stories that refused to be forgotten.

Browse the banned books collection and find the challenged classic or controversial contemporary that speaks to your commitment to literary freedom.