/lit/ - Literature

>>8371300
If I see any minimalist covers I'm going to kill myself.

that book just happens to have my favorite painting on it's cover.

Second Foundation is better. The Signal and the Noise is a fun design.

Sublime. All the necessary information without any bullshit.

The jazzy painting does it for me.

>>8371369
>the mellow pag

is this a thing?

yo

All of these Camus covers are great

>>8371454
>mfw i just got the plague

is exile and the kingdom any good?

>>8371300

>>8371432
Mellow Pad it's the name of the painting. Always loved the cover of >>8371369 too. Mine has a painting with a man and a woman standing in front of a canvas of the picture of them (meta) in the style of late medieval/ early renaissance, p ugly but it was an unscathed copy at Half Price and it was all I could afford. Pretty happy with it.

Pic related is currently my favorite-- I found a first edition hardcover. Not my favorite book by far, but I love Flemish/ Dutch Renaissance art (probably my favorite if we're purely talking about era).

Ulysses of James Joyce.

>>8371532
you should probably go to the doctor

>>8371532
It's more positive than most of Camus' works, but if you enjoy The Plague then you'll almost certainly like the short stories in Exile and the Kingdom.

Fortunately Camus varies his short stories enough from his more complete works (unlike, say, Kafka) that they are worth the read so I'd say pick it up when you have the chance

>>8371324
Second Foundation has a little girl on the cover!

>>8371812

Based Arkady

Also the twist at the end made Trantor one of my favorite locations in literature, great art about it too

>>8371840

Another one

>>8371454
This.

And also, pic related. Stylistic, effeminate/androgynous, duotone, kind of posh... So not only it does look good, it also reflects Dorian Grey pretty well.

Anything Everyman's.

>>8371300
>>8371812
>>8371847

Michael Whelan's work is outstanding
This is probably my favorite of his

>>8371812
I just can't get over how strongly composed this cover is. You've got one triangle inset in another; strength at the bottom but drawing your eye to the top, and the two drawing your eye back and forth between the foreground and background. Arkady's pose is fantastically heroic, and yet you can feel her humanity; her expression - trepidation playing with earnestness - and the fact that she's a teenage girl belies her the pose's confidence. She doesn't look like a caricature; she looks like an actual person flung headlong into an adventure in an expansive and dangerous universe.

Roads book covers are incredible, all very well designed

>>8371554
https://www.amazon.com/V-Perennial-Classics-Thomas-Pynchon/dp/0060930217/

what the fuck happened?

>>8371941

You would enjoy a book titled Michael Whelan's Works of Wonder that collects and describes many titles by the author. It's been some years, but I recall him describing in the book the significance of the character holding the arrow here, now the arrow originates at his heart, and so on

>>8372017
Screenshoted for later research, thanks.

>>8371951
>dat forshadowing

>>8371454
I think the Stranger cover just finally made sense to me.