Bookish Buys: Penguin Pretties by Coralie Bickford-Smith

Happy Boxing Day! I hope everyone had a great Christmas. But how awesome is Boxing Day? The stress of Christmas is over and you can chillax with the fam and your new toys. Or plan what to spend your money on, if Santa blessed you with cashola. Like the pretties in this post. And hey, even if you're not up for spending in the post-Christmas haze, you can still enjoy the book porn.

See, Penguin sure knows how to do the classics - which basically means they know how to make you want to pay for them as opposed to getting them all online for free. They just have to wrap them in gorgeous covers and put them together as part of a collection, and suddenly I want to give Penguin all of my money. A lot of their best covers are designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, including:

The F. Scott Fitzgerald Collection

The Clothbound Series

Penguin English Library

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Great Food Series

Aren't they all just beautiful? So far (ahem) I've got The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle from the Clothbound Classics collection, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte from the English Library collection. Needless to say, there's many, many more I'd like to get my hands on!

Are you a fan of collecting series? Do you judge choose books by their covers? Because I totally do, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Much.

Bookish Buys: Penguin Classics

Penguin has been releasing such amazing editions of their classics lately. The Popular Penguins are fun, but these designs are on a whole 'nother level...

-The Clothbound Classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, are just stunning. I have The Hound of The Baskervilles, but I adore the rest of the collection, too. These are some of my faves:

-There's also a range of Clothbound Children's Classics, which are kinda more beautiful, if that's even possible:

-I think the Penguin Threads are my absolute faves though. The hand-stitched cover art is by Jillian Tamaki.

-In honour of World Aid's Day, Penguin recently released a few Red Classics with really cool covers:

-The Great Ideas series comes in five sets, each with a different colour theme, and they kinda need to be seen as a whole for the design to really be appreciated. But the covers are awesome on their own, too:

 -The Pocket Penguin designs are a bit more varied, but still pretty great:

-Similarly, the Deluxe Editions all have unique and striking covers:

All I have left to say is well done, Penguin! I want everything. Repeat editions and all.