Not Sure Which Classic Book to Illustrate?

September 16, 2015

Recovering the Classics has been around since 2013 but a lot has happened since then! We started with 50 titles and now have over 100 titles that you can submit a design for! As a part of our partnership with the New York Public Library, and the Digital Public Library of America we need help getting new covers for a lot of our newly added titles. Many of the titles below have no designs submitted yet so you could be the first!

So if you're considering submitting a new Recovering the Classics design, we suggest you take a look at this list and help spread the love to all these great books! Head over to the uploader when you're ready to submit your design, or to see more details in the creative brief.

  • A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
  • A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
  • A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
  • Aesop's Fables by Aesop's Fables
  • Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  • Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte
  • Anne of Avonlea by L. M. Montgomery
  • Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  • Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
  • Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
  • David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  • Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott
  • Emma by Jane Austin
  • Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
  • Flappers and Philosophers by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Heidi by Johanna Spyri
  • Howards End by E. M. Forster
  • Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf
  • Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
  • Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Kim by Rudyard Kipling
  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
  • Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
  • Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  • Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Little Men by Louisa May Alcott
  • Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
  • On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
  • Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
  • Pollyanna by Eleanor H. Porter
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • Tales of the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
  • The Ambassadors by Henry James
  • The Arabian Nights: Tales from a Thousand and One Nights by Unknown
  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu
  • The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
  • The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay
  • The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
  • The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
  • The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov
  • The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
  • The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
  • The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
  • The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas
  • The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
  • The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens
  • The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
  • The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan
  • The Professor by Charlotte Bronté
  • The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • The Story of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting
  • The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
  • The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
  • The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
  • The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
  • The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
  • Thus Spake Zarathustra by Frederich Nietzsche
  • Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • What Maisie Knew by Henry James
  • White Fang by Jack London
  • Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte




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