Reacting To - The Most Iconic Book Covers In History
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2022
- Have you ever wondered what the most iconic book covers in history are? I have, so let's find out!!!
Hi friends!
I hope you're having a wonderful day!
As a passionate illustrator with a great interest in book cover design, I thought it'd be interesting to see what people deem as the most iconic book covers in history! I found a list of 25 covers on Literary Hub's website, so let's react to it...
Here is the list for your own viewing pleasure :)
lithub.com/the-25-most-iconic...
I'd love to know which book covers you think are the most iconic, so feel free to share that in a comment :)
Sending you my best wishes,
Carolyn :)
My Social Media: CarolynMarieReads
***My Etsy shop - www.etsy.com/shop/CarolynMari...
***My Website/Portfolio - carolyncastagnaart.wixsite.co...
***Art/Book Instagram - / carolynmariereads
***GoodReads - / carolynmariereads
***Business inquiries: carolyncastagna.artist@gmail.com
***Want to write to me or send something?
Carolyn Castagna
P. O. Box 773
Greenlawn NY 11740
United States
**Please don't feel like you need to send me anything, but if you'd like to I would be honored!!!** :)
***About me -
I'm a freelance illustrator and writer who recently graduated from college at the Fashion Institute of Technology with my Bachelors of Fine Arts in Illustration with a minor in English/Writing.
My greatest passion in life is combining my love of illustrating, writing, and reading!
Happy Reading :)
#bookcoverdesign #booktube #classicbooks 
Развлечения
I think I would have put more children’s books on the iconic covers list. They are so prominent in our formative years!! Especially The Little Prince and Harry Potter!
def!!
Please give The Catcher In The Rye another chance!!! It’s an all-time favorite of mine, I think there’s so much beneath the surface that you might not see the first time you read it. I do wish it wasn’t taught in high schools so much though, I think it’s definitely a book you have to find on your own to really enjoy.
I’m definitely planning on giving it another chance!! :) So glad to hear you love it!
@@CarolynMarieReads I suggest reading Frannie and Zooey first. If you like that one, then maybe go back to Catcher in the Rye. (Like you, I didn't like it either). Like is too short and there are soooo many books out there that you don't have to re-read books you don't like.
@@kurtfox4944 some of my all time favorite books are ones that I only really liked reading them a second time, so I think it's defenitely worth it to reread some books
The cool thing is that it was actually Daisy's eyes that we see on the cover and it was also the first time we see a book cover (dust jacket) with cover art as before then dust jackets only had suggestions for books published by the same publisher.
Oh wow, I didn’t know that!
I absolutely love hearing you talk about book covers and illustration, the passion you have for it comes across in every word 🥹 great vid! X
The Great Gatsby is an icon, a legend, and is DEFINITELY the moment for a reason! One of the most iconic literature in American history and the best of the Jazz Age!
Couldn’t agree more!!!
HAPPY BIRTDAY CAROLYN!!! The cover of Noctunes from your last video spoke to me, but I must admit The Great Gatsby stands out, especially now nowing the backstory. As always, Thank you .
Please give Catcher in the Rye another chance, it's one of my all-time favorite books and has a lot of depth to it that most people do not read into their first time. And I recommend focusing on Caulfield's love for his siblings, his grief and the way he talks about his parents (connect this to the dedication of the book!), the ending, and Caulfield's interactions with friends or teachers. If you really look at each interaction and description like it's significant then you might actually find the significance of each of them and the theme of the book. I personally believe it was meant to be a reflection of teen depression; Look at the first and last chapter, you'll find mentions of Caulfield talking to a psychiatrist/his eldest brother questioning him, etc. Also look at Holden's last interaction with his sister in the end, his breakdown here is also very significant. And consider his reaction to the deaths of his brother and the student that suicided! Anyway, enough with my rant. Happy Birthday!
I just wanted to say that I love your cover design of Maurice so much! It looks stunning.
Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange cover - I never saw that cover but it IMMEDIATELY reminded me of Wonder by RJ Palacio.
Iconic is 1984 by Orwell. Love it or hate it, the apple on the cover of Twilight is iconic, too.
Listening you talking about reading a book in order to create the perfect cover I think it could be fun if you tried to design a cover for one of the books on your TBR and then go back to it after reading the book to see what things you would change maybe?
Interesting point of view.
LOVED this video concept/idea! Your interest in book design is why I decided to follow in the first place :D i think it's one of the things that make you stand out on booktube. Would love to see something similar in the future! And happy belated birthday!
I so enjoyed this video. I taught elementary school for 40 years so I love children’s book covers. Those NOT drawn by the author of the book that I love are: Charlotte’s Web - Garth Williams, Wonderful Wizard of Oz-W.W. Denslow, Winnie the Pooh- E.H.Shepard, Ferdinand-Robert Lawson, Goodnight Moon-Clement Hurd ;just to name a few. 📚😃
I would love to see a video similar to this but you pick books off your shelf that have in your opinion iconic covers
I’ll make a note of this idea! Thank you for the wonderful suggestion :)
Truman Capote and Harper Lee were very close friends. Some say the little neighbor boy in To Kill a Mocking Bird was inspired by Truman's personality.
Oh, I loved this. I too went to art school for awhile, and I really geeked out on this vid. 😃 My heart melts regarding excellent typography.
Absolutely loved this video! Love you talking and observing the graphic design, it's super interesting to me 🥰
My fav book is To Kill a Mockingbird, and I'm obsessed with the 60th anniversary edition by Glenn O'neill. That one really represents the story and atmosphere in my opnion! ❤
Happy Birthday Carolyn! I wish I could send you a gift or something.
Thank you so much! Your support and kindness is the best gift! :)
hey carolyn i hope youre having a great day! another video idea that probably has been asked for before is that you could recreate most iconic book covers! i'd love to see that xx
Happy birthday Carolyn. Please keep making great videos :)
Happy belated birthday Carolyn! I loved the video! How about another one like this, but with middle grade and child books? 💖📚💖✨
Thanks Carolyn, I learned so much from your video. I never thought very much about cover art. Oh and happy birthday!
Happy belated birthday! I hope you had a wonderful day!
Of those covers listed, I'd have to say my favorite is The Great Gatsby. I'm gonna have to agree with Pappa Hemingway- it's definitely disturbing. Haunting but iconic.
The white hardback cover of The Book Thief…the jacket design & background art.
Also Bird Box hardcover edition, the jacket design & background art/case design.
Also, Robert Frost illustrated edition hardcover, the cover & interior design.
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening hardcover, cover design and illustrations.
happy belated birthday carolyn!! i love how often you’ve been posting recently! keep being u
Thank you so much! Your support and kindness mean the world to me :)
In Portugal they sell an edition very similar to Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice cover from 1894!!!! The collection it's called "Romances eternos - RBA" and it's absolutely breath taking
The Great Gatsby cover is very creepy, but I love it. The cover of The Catcher in the Rye that I grew up with was a plain burgundy cover in mass paperback, another cover I love.
I have enjoyed your IG tattoo reels so much! ✒️Very sweet and uniquely you! It has the Carolyn Marie essence and touch! Happy happy birthday girlie! Mine was on the 14th of October!! 😅 I LOVE THE CLOTHBOUND editions!!
I’m so glad! Thank you very much! 😊
Yes, they’re stunning 🤩
Andddd HERE YOU ARE to bless our day❤️❤️❤️❤️ Happy belated Birthday, Carolyn. May life bless you with more and more good books. You slay QUEEN 😘😘😘
Aww thank you so much 🥰💕 Sending my best wishes to you in return :)
@@CarolynMarieReads You the best, take love 😘❤️
Happy belated birthday Carolyn!!! Love you & your videos ❤️❤️
Thank you so much Zoë!! :)
A very nice way to connect your passion for graphic design and your love of books.
Belated Happy Birfday, Carolyn. You're one of the best. Hope your day of natal debut was fun for you and your year shall be wonderful, surprising, and crammed with superb reading.
Love your knowledgeable opinion on these it’s such a cool way to look at them
Aw thank you 😄
Hi, CarolynMarie, thank you for sharing! I like to draw, so I can really enjoy a book cover… that’s why I prefer paper books forever. I’m more attracted by a cover, that tells a bit of the story… not too much, but a glimpse. I wish, all cover designers would read the book before: often it’s very obvious, they didn’t do that. After finishing the book, I can admire the cover even more, if it was on the point. I prefer the cover 'To kill a mockingbird' you showed after the iconic one, though I like that one, too. So many different styles, amazing! Plays with letters, colours, dots… really enjoyed all. The 'stars' edition from the little prince, too…✨. Love, Monika❣
I love thinking about book covers and designs, especially as they are the first thing you see before reading a book! This video reminds me of the history of the book covers of Lolita by Nabokov and how they have shaped the perception of the character Lolita... There is a book about this, The History of a Cover Girl edited by John Bertram and Yuri Leving, that really explores this and also has a lot of new cover designs that are amazing.
I'm truly amazed by how your love of books immerses you into "all things book related" even to the font on the book covers. I've been curious as to what you thought of the movie "You've Got Mail" since I've been watching your videos. I love the movie and some scenes I like more than others but especially the one where Meg Ryan is in Fox Books store and tells the employee and customer which books they should start reading in the Ballet Slippers series. It's all about the books...right?!
Happy birthday!! I had no idea you were a freelance illustrator?? That's amazing. I hope you had a lovely day yesterday, and I wish a blessed year ahead of you!
Thank you so much!!! Yes I am😂📖💕
Sending my best wishes to you as well!
I would love to see more Elizabeth Gaskell book covers options 🥺
Brave New World cover reminds me of the movie Metropolis. The art looks a lot like poster art that came from the Soviet Union in the early 1920s.This was a really interesting perspective of books. Thank you for making me think and spark my curiosity! About 20 years ago, I was in Madison WI, and got to see the art of Peter Sis. He has done a lot of amazing children's book illustrations. The original paintings that were used in the books were spectacular. If you ever get a chance to see his work, you would be blown away! Thank you.
I was going to mention Jurassic Park if the article didn't because it's easily my favorite classic cover, but I'm glad that it was listed!! The cover of the sequel is equally amazing
Without watching first, I was going to name a few paperback covers that sprang to mind, but realized with so many editions of many titles, it would be tough to explain which covers I meant. So I’ll name just one, Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot - the black cover with the red drop of blood at the corner of the lips.
Yep, F451, catch-22, Atlas Shrugged, and Handmaid’s Tale. My only little nit to pick is that it seems “iconic” is being conflated with “artistic merit.” To me, iconic means you would recognize the book immediately, without reading the text.
OMG! Happy birthday!! We actually have the same birthday ☺
Loved the concept of the video! Inspired me to think about book covers more. Were the covers all American editions except for the Austen one? I feel like there was a shared vibe amongst many of them but maybe that also was because they were close timewise...
I've loved looking at book covers ever since I watched a Ted Talk by Chip Kidd about book design (highly recommend!) Makes me stop and look at every book cover whether or not I'm interested in the book - it makes browsing at bookshops take so much longer lol
Happy birthday, Carolyn!!
Thank you so much!!
Watching your videos feels like hanging out with a friend
An iconic children's classic cover is 'The Secret Garden' by Frances Hodgson Burnett, showing the little girl in red bending over to open the secret door to the garden. This has been on many of the editions of this book and was the cover for the first US edition in 1911. I believe this edition is extremely rare now. One of my favourite Australian children's classics 'Seven Little Australians' by Ethel Turner, has had many different covers, lovely colourful images etc . . . but the cover image taken from an old edition is my favourite, it is embossed and has font in Gold and an embossed and Gold border of roses and what looks like a scarf, in the centre ring is the embossed Gold image of the family of which the book is about. It's just a beautiful cover.
Happy birthday!!!🎉 You rock!! 🎉🎉
Thank you so much! So do you! 🥳
happy belated birthday !! love the video 💗
Thank you so much! 🥰
Nice video👏🔥 and happy late birthday🎉🎉
Thank you so much 😄🎉
Happy Birthday. Mine's the 23rd. some real classic titles in this one.
Greetings from Edinburgh. Fantastic video as always.
On a slightly different note, do you know the title "Catcher in the Rye" comes from a Robert Burns poem "Comin' Thro the Rye" and is a symbol of Holden's longing to preserve the innocence of childhood?
Wouldn't it be fun to interpret book titles?
Janette Winterson's "Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" has always intrigued me? 🍊🍊🍊
Books and Music. My thought is that I could perhaps thank you for your book discussions with a music recommendation.
One of my own favorite Operas is CARMEN by George Bizet/ I simply love it. Bizet premiered this Opera in Paris in 1875, CARMEN is a woman who is wild in her way ..um, she loves men, a lot. yes, many of them. Ahem.
I love Elina Garanca's CARMEN. She sang it at the MET in New York. Elina is one of the best mezzo-sopranos. She is also is one of the best Carmens I've ever heard. The Opera is so romantic, yet tragic..as one of the three men who are Carmens "love" interests discover ..eventually . It's in French, but also has English subtitles. I think you will love the Carmen story, Carolyn
Here is a short video which describes in some detail one of the most famous Arias in Carmen "Carmen: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Elina Garanca) The song itself is more than wonderful..But Elina's voice is glorious!!~
Carmen: "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Elina Garanca)ruclips.net/video/K2snTkaD64U/видео.html
RUclips does not have a complete copy of this version with Elina Garanca, However, if you would like, I have a great copy of this version of CARMEN on my Plex Media Server. Please let me know if you would like to see the entire Opera. I also have many other movies, concerts . Plex works through the internet. I often share many movies albums through Plex with my friends . Ron Grimm, Dallas Texas
loved this
Happy Birthday! I kind of love that my favorite booktuber is a fellow libra (not going to lie😉). My birthday is the 19th.🎂🎉
Thank you so much!! Happy early birthday to you!! 🥳
Happy birthday!! I am obsessed with your red rabbit (Alice in wonderland) illustration that you showed in a previous video. Do you think you’ll ever do prints of it? Love your videos!
Thank you so much!! That’s warms my heart 🥰 I actually did small prints of it in the past, but I’d definitely be opened to printing larger versions in the future! Thank you so much for your interest :)
BTW: Invisable Man is by Ellison and The Invisable Man is by.Wells. I only bring this up because I've seen contestants on game shows get burned by this distinction.
Great video ❤
Carolyn, I'm not sure how much you're into film but are you similarly interested in cover art and poster designs for movies? I know you have the Criterion edition of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales; I love so many of the designs commissioned for their releases. David Downton's covers are some of my favorites, particularly Belle de Jour, which is also one of my favorite films. His style is very reminiscent of mid-century fashion sketches and portraits.
Happy Birthday Carolyn 🍰🍨
Thank you so much 😊
love your videos
You def should read In Cold Blood. That is IMO the best crime book and also the best nonfiction book.
Interesting! Could you do one with more international authors?
A very happy birthday, Carolyn! Hope you had a fun, book-filled day. All the best...
Happy late birthday to the most artistic person🎂 ❤️
Thank you so much 🥰
Happy Birthday Carolyn ! You are a Libra...very level minded,fair people. This was fun , I love book covers and I'm embarrassed to admit, but I have purchased books based on their covers !
To me most iconic is the original cover of the The Hobbit illustrated by Tolkien himself.
Oowww that’s a great one!
I really love the original Fahrenheit 451 cover. I wouldn't call it outdated either. Catcher in the Rye was also my least favorite in high school, but I think that calls for a re-read because that was shy of a decade ago, yikes.
Both sides of my family asked for xmas wish lists from me (which in my case is a book list). Then I realised I still had two unused book vouchers. So I used those up first. Then I looked at the books on my list and realised I really really wanted specific book covers (or more to the point, I didn't want to end up with book covers I wasn't that keen on) so I ended up buying a bunch of books, cutting a huge chunk out of my list. Then I made another list. But no regrets with the books I bought.
our birthdays are almost identical. mine is on the 16th hihi i love your recent video ideas
Aw that’s wonderful!! Happy belated birthday 🥳
@@CarolynMarieReads thank youu, happy belated birthday to you as well
Happy Belated Birthday!!!🎂💐
Thank you so much :)
They may be very strong iconic covers for sure but I think that all of them have better modern versions because it seems to me that especially during the last decade or so the anglo-american book cover artists have been extraordinarily creative and dazzling. Though I must admit that Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice 1894 cover is simply magnifique! So my top3: Pride and Prejudice, The Color Purple, The Grapes of Wrath. And I also love your red rabbit, it is so peculiarly elegant and captivating. Just interested in whether your author artworks are made into postcards...
Love your video Queen
I’m so glad!!
IMO, The best book cover *and* the best book on the list is Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, which gets extra points because Woolf's sister designed the cover.
My only criticism of this list is there was way too much text and not enough images.
Happy (belated) Birthday!!
Thank you so much!!
@@CarolynMarieReads Love your channel. Keep up the good work!
Vanessa Bell was Virginia Woolf's sister.
Go to the mattresses. 😁
Happy Birthday.
Thank you!
I hope you had a great day!💝
Thank you :)
Hello there 👋
No, you’re iconic!
😂 thank you!
How old are you?
This is just a psyop to promote those books, those are not actually _"the most iconic book covers in history."_