When is great design even better than usual? Well, when it's also for a great cause.
This awesome project pulled together 100 artists from 28 countries to create alternative book covers for some of the greatest books of all time. It's all to support the fight against illiteracy. We've selected 30 of our favourites to share with you below.
You can find the full list here, where you can also buy them.
The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Designer: Ilya Donets
The Portrait Of A Lady (Henry James)
Designer: Sara Jaffer
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson)
Designer: Sandra Monatf
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Designer: Amy Blackwell
A Passage To India (EM Forster)
Designer: Patrick Latimer
Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)
Designer: Ian Caulkett
David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
Designer: Jade Janssens & Hadewych Becuwe
Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)
Designer: Lara Crow
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Designer: Jennifer Collier
Alice In Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
Designer: Tim Van Den Broeck
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Designer: Jans Dawn
The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
Designer: Medhi Dewalle
Jude The Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Designer: Susumu Fujimoto
Ulysses (James Joyce)
Designer: Brandon Bedaw
As I Lay Dying (William Faulkner)
Designer: Emma Cook
The Great Gatsby (F Scott Fitzgerald )
Designer: Carol Reznor
The Big Sleep (Raymond Chandler)
Designer: Chad Lewis
The Plague (Albert Camus)
Designer: Seonaid MacKay
Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)
Designer: Stephen Krohn
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
Designer: Margarita Stchetinskaya
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Designer: Yasmeen Ismail
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
Designer: Paul Boardman
Song Of Solomon (Toni Morrison)
Designer: Dimitri Sakelaropolus
Money (Martin Amis)
Designer: Blanca Gómez
The Artist Of The Floating World (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Designer: Paper Collective
LA Confidential (James Ellroy)
Designer: Liam Bushby
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Designer: Laura Schillemans
If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (Italo Calvino)
Designer: Valentina Montagna
Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
Designer: Lauren Gentry
The BFG (Roald Dahl)
Designer: Inge Lavrijsen
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