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Amazing redesigned book covers

Amazing redesigned book covers

Amazing redesigned book covers
30 September 2012

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