Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov. Olympia Press, Paris, 1955
Ulysses, by James Joyce. Shakespeare & Co., Paris, 1922
The Trial (Der Process), by Franz Kafka. Die Schmiede, Berlin, 1925
Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe. William Heinemann Ltd., London, 1958. Cover design by C.W. Barton.
The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, New York, 1929
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Chatto & Windus, London, 1932. Cover design by Leslie Holland.
The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien. George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1954-1955. Cover design by J.R.R. Tolkien. Image via Peter Harrington.
To the Lighthouse, by Virginia Woolf. Hogarth Press, London, 1927. Cover design by Vanessa Bell.
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Delacorte, New York, 1969
Native Son, by Richard Wright. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1940
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell. Secker and Warburg, London, 1949. Cover design by Michael Kennard.
Beloved, by Toni Morrison. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1987
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac. Viking Press, New York, 1957
The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway. Scribner, 1926. Cover design by Cleonike Damianakes.
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. William Heinemann, London, 1962
Brideshead Revisited, by Evelyn Waugh. Chapman and Hall, London, 1945. Image via Peter Harrington.
Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell. Macmillan, 1936
Animal Farm, by George Orwell. Secker and Warburg, London, 1945
The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton. D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1920
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1943
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ticknor, Reed and Fields, Boston, 1850
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan. W.W. Norton and Co., 1963
A Good Man is Hard to Find, by Flannery O’Connor. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1955
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll. Macmillan, 1865
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Scribner, New York, 1925. Cover design by Francis Cugat.