Top Ten Book Covers I’d Frame As Pieces of Art

I have to give some credit to Flavorwire for giving me some inspiration for this week’s Top Ten Tuesday.

I am a mega book nerd, so much so that if I have one edition of a book, but I see a stunningly gorgeous edition of the same book at a store, I will probably buy it and have two copies (case in point: I own almost all of Agatha Christie’s novels, most of them duplicates because while I own many in the more artistic and photographic Fontana editions,

I want to own them all in this more stylistically simple Fontana edition:)

Nitpicky I know, but I really do appreciate the beauty of a book cover. They have a clichéd ability to change someone’s perception of a story before they have even read it. I can’t count the amount of times I have been in the mood to read something slightly trashy and easy and gone for the girliest covered book I could find. Here however are ten books that I treasure, or at the very least treasure their covers as incredible works of art.

1. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (Bantam Classics)
2. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay – Michael Chabon
3. The Hobbit – J. R. R. Tolkien
4. And again
5. The Lord of the Rings – J. R. R. Tolkien
6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – William Shakespeare
7. The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
8. Someday, Someday, Maybe – Lauren Graham (without the text)
9. The Chronicles of Narnia (complete set) – C. S. Lewis
10. Peter Pan – J. M. Barrie

Hope you have some bookish art of your own!

Love,
Andrea