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Book Covers: What are your BEST, WORST or INTERSTING picks?

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I have a folder full of tons of them as many of us bibliophiles have been known to purchase books just because we loved the cover. Some are beautiful, unique or butt-ugly :lol: and many are very funny or interesting.

What are yours? :?: New books coming out all the time with great covers. :D

Here is a list of some of the BEST book covers:

August, by Judith Rossner


The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe


The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood


Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin


All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy


The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami


Less than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis


Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton


A Wolf at the Table, by Augusten Burroughs5c5


The Secret History, by Donna Tartt


Catch-22, by Joseph Heller


Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison


The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald


The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger


On the Road, by Jack Kerouac


Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley


To Kill a Mockingbird


Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark, cover art by Victor Reinganum 79ef96eb-428a-463b-a7c1-632139d8a5bc


Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer, cover art by Jon Gray 745d0e4f-2b01-4661-81d1-b3e24b1b5883


The Journals of John Cheevers, by Susan Cheevers, cover art by R.D. Scudellari cbeaf32b-28ce-4107-a1d7-aefe01c4547d


The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje, cover photograph by Cecil Beaton f37d4e71-60d1-4dd4-8809-9861bfc63c96


Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, cover art by Sir John Tenniel187adf11-35d2-4d68-8caf-301f1e6f7571

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The cover of American Psycho scares the hell out of me. :x :cry:
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The oxford world classic edition of Jerusalem Delivered by Tasso has probably the most beautiful cover I've seen on a book. I'm not an artistic person buy there's no denying the quality of work on the cover. When a book is so significant that it moves quality artists to paint pictures based on its content - that means something.
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