There's only one thing better than curling up with a really good book - and that's when the book in question brings you pleasure from the simply looking at its cover.
From classic works of literature to tomes on specialist subjects, below is our selection of our 50 favourite book covers, crafted with as much love and consideration as the story on its enclosed pages. Definitely worthy additions to your bookcase...
Click an image below to launch the gallery. What's your favourite cover from our 50? Let us know in the comments section below.
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Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Emily Brontë
£12.99, penguin.co.uk
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The Long Song, Andrea Levy
£18.07, amazon.co.uk
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The Language of Flowers: a Miscellany, Mandy Kirkby
£11.69, waterstones.com
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderland And Through The Looking Glass (Clothbound Classics), C S Lewis
£14.99, penguin.co.uk
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The Secret Garden (Centenary hardback), Frances Hodgson Burnett
£25, penguin.co.uk
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The Lotus Eaters, Tatjana Soli
£9.71, amazon.co.uk
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The French Lieutenant's Woman (Vintage Classics), John Fowles
£8.99, amazon.co.uk
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Moral Disorder, Margaret Atwood
£8.99, amazon.co.uk
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The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Will Self
£7.99, amazon.co.uk
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Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Jane Austen
£12.99, penguin.co.uk
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The Bees, Carol Ann Duffy
£11.99, waterstones.com
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Brave Old World, Tom Hodgkinson
£16.99, penguin.co.uk
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Jayne Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
£5.70, amazon.co.uk
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Moby-Dick (Vintage Classics), Herman Melville
£8.99, amazon.co.uk
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London: City Of Disappearances, Iain Sinclair
£14.99, penguin.co.uk
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The Art of Instruction: Vintage Educational Charts from the 19th and 20th Centuries, Katrien Van der Schueren
£19.54, amazon.co.uk
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: The Early Years, Ilan Stavans
£16.99, palgrave.com
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Over And Under The Snow, Kate Messner
£9.89, amazon.co.uk
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Chanel: An Intimate Life, Lisa Chaney
£14.99 penguin.co.uk
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South Of The Border, West Of The Sun, Haruki Murakami
£11.65, amazon.co.uk
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The Secret Garden (thread edition), Frances Hodgson Burnett
£12.99, penguin.co.uk
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The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
£7.50, rbooks.co.uk
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The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, Heidi Durrow
£8.49, amazon.co.uk
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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston
£8.50, amazon.co.uk
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The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern
£12.99, randomhouse.co.uk
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Vidal, Vidal Sassoon
£8.99, panmacmillan.com
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Vogue: The Covers, Dodie Kazanjian and Hamish Bowles
£29.75, amazon.co.uk
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Who the Hell is Patsy O’Hara? The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World’s Best Loved Books, Jenny Bond and Chris Sheedy
£7.25, amazon.co.uk
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The Woman in White, Wilkie Collins
£4.59, amazon.co.uk
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, F Scott Fitzgerald
£7.18, amazon.co.uk
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Sea, Mark Laita
£29.75, amazon.co.uk
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Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
£5.70, amazon.co.uk
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The Sky Below, Stacey D’Erasmo
£13.39, amazon.co.uk
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Excellent Women, Barbara Pym
£8.52, amazon.co.uk
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The Goddess Experience, Gisele Scanlon
From £2.90, amazon.co.uk
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The Picture Of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics), Oscar Wilde
£4.99, amazon.co.uk
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The Diary of a Provincial Lady, E M Delafield
£9.02, amazon.co.uk
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The Curious Gardener: A Year In The Garden, Anna Pavord
£12.18, amazon.co.uk
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The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood
£8.99, amazon.co.uk
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Ballet Shoes (designed by Cath Kidston), Noel Streatfeild
£15, penguin.co.uk
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August is a Wicked Month, Edna O’Brien
From £2.35, amazon.co.uk
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The Voluptuous Delights Of Peanut Butter And Jam, Lauren Liebenberg
£7.99, virago.co.uk
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Of Human Bondage (Vintage Classics), William Somerset Maugham
£9.99, amazon.co.uk
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At Swim, Two Boys, Jamie O'Neill
£8.00, abebooks.co.uk
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The Sound And The Fury (Vintage Classics), William Faulkner
£8.99, amazon.co.uk
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Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness (Vintage Classics), Richard Yates
£7.99, amazon.co.uk
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The Geometry Of Pasta, Caz Hildebrand and Jacob Kenedy
£11.99, panmacmillan.com
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A Christmas Carol (Clothbound Classics), Charles Dickens
£14.99, penguin.co.uk
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Two Caravans, Marina Lewycka
£7.99, amazon.co.uk
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Paradise Lost (Vintage Classics), John Milton
£8.99, amazon.co.uk