COVID-19 has shaken the world, but lots of spare time and the shared situation have resulted in creative pandemic-inspired art which helps us get through these challenging times with a smile on our faces. Oak Park-based graphic designer Josh Berta, 45, is passing the time in lockdown by reimagining the covers of classic and popular books for the age of corona, and the result is hilariously spot-on!
“The covers are just a personal project I started since we all started working from home. I was seeing a lot of COVID-19 memes and thought of the spin on Love in the Time of Cholera—Memes in the Time of COVID-19, photoshopped it, and shared it on Facebook. And then I kept thinking of others. I only shared on my personal Facebook feed for weeks, but then people started asking me to share them out more. So I moved to Instagram,” the artist told Bored Panda.
Here’s what book covers would look like if they were written today. Which one would you read?
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#1 The Shining By Stephen King

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#2 The Lord Of The Rings By J. R. R. Tolkien

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#3 A Room With A View By E. M. Forster

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#4 Moby-Dick; Or, The Whale By Herman Melville

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#5 1984 By George Orwell

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#6 Love In The Time Of Cholera By Gabriel García Márquez

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#7 Great Expectations By Charles Dickens

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#8 The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

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#9 A Game Of Thrones, A Clash Of Kings, A Storm Of Swords, A Feast For Crows, A Dance With Dragons, A Song Of Ice And Fire Series By George R. R. Martin

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#10 Their Eyes Were Watching God By Zora Neale Hurston

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#11 The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway

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#12 A Tree Grows In Brooklyn By Betty Smith

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#13 Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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#14 Beloved By Toni Morrison

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#15 A Farewell To Arms By Ernest Hemingway

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#16 The Hunt For Red October By Tom Clancy

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#17 Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix By J. K. Rowling

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#18 Journey To The End Of The Night By Louis-Ferdinand Céline

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#19 Catch-22 By Joseph Heller

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#20 Fox In Socks By Dr. Seuss

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#21 The Odyssey Of Homer

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#22 The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy By Douglas Adams

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#23 Waiting For Godot By Samuel Beckett

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#24 Children Of Dune By Frank Herbert

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#25 Wuthering Heights By Emily Brontë

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#26 Animal Farm By George Orwell

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#27 The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test By Tom Wolfe

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#28 A Clockwork Orange,by Anthony Burgess

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#29 The Iliad By Homer

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#30 Oh, The Places You’ll Go! By Dr. Seuss

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#31 Infinite Jest By David Foster Wallace

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#32 Walden By Henry David Thoreau

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#33 The Velveteen Rabbit By Margery Williams (Illustrated By William Nicholson)

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#34 Middlemarch By George Eliot

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#35 The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay By Michael Chabon

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#36 Starship Troopers By Robert Heinlein

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#37 Where The Wild Things Are By Maurice Sendak

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#38 High Fidelity By Nick Hornby

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#39 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy By John Le Carré

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