Readers' favourite book covers – in pictures
When we asked you to send us pictures of your favourite book covers, they came flooding in. From classics such as the 1925 edition of F Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to contemporary highlights such as Joshua Cohen’s The Book of Numbers, take a look at some of the jackets our readers love the most
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A classic ... The 1925 Great Gatsby cover, designed by Francis Cugat, a favourite of @DarfPublishers and @SimonPia1 – and we also love the Wordsworth Classics version.
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‘Our favourite is the film tie-in edition of A Clockwork Orange from the seventies [by David Pelham] – it eclipses the original jacket [by Barry Trengrove],’ said @OxfamPetergate. We love both.
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‘All of the illustrations by Art Spiegelman in The Wild Party are brilliant and the cover sets the tone,’ shared @Erics_Studs.
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‘A recent favourite cover! Passionate and simple at once, I thought ... Like dogs, don’t you think?’ said Tarikua Getachew of the cover for The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs.
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The UK cover for the recently-published Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen was recommended by Simon Collinson – you can even see its design in movement on this animated gif.
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‘The Penguin UK redacted cover of 1984,’ shared Louis Ivan. This 2013 Penguin cover of George Orwell’s classic novel, by David Pearson, is a reader favourite of recent years.
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‘It’s a brand-new one, but the delicate blue foiling of the waves is just gorgeous,’ said Ilse Pilsener of former Guardian journalist Alok Jha’s science book.
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‘Not the best Tintin by far but as far as covers go its got to be The Shooting Star,’ said Krishna Devasabai.
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‘Very much like the bruised apple of Faber’s edition of A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing [by Eimear McBride],’ said Laura Waddell.
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‘The US cover of The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet,’ David Mitchell’s 2010 novel, is Louis Ivan’s choice.
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‘Any edition of Breakfast at Tiffany’s that *doesn’t* feature Audrey Hepburn is to be treasured,’ said Wayne Gooderham – do you agree? Here’s one of the vintage covers of Truman Capote’s novella.
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‘I was quite taken with the beautiful illustration (by Yan Qin Weng) for Alice and the Fly [by James Rice],’ said Matthew Selwyn.
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