World Book Day: Staff Picks

Discover artworks that remind us of our favorite books

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1. Their Eyes Were Watching God

"First published amid controversy in 1937, then rescued from obscurity four decades later, the novel narrates Janie Crawford's ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny. Although Hurston wrote the novel in only seven weeks, Their Eyes Were Watching God breathes and bleeds a whole life's worth of urgent experience."

SOURCE: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS

SELECTED WORK

"Untitled" by Corey Lovett

Untitled by Corey Lovett

2. Boy Parts by Eliza Clark 

Darkly comic novel about Irina who obsessively takes explicit photographs of the average-looking men she scouts from the streets of Newcastle. Placed on sabbatical from her dead-end bar job, she is offered an exhibition at a London gallery, promising to revive her art career and offering an escape from her rut of drugs, alcohol, violence and extreme cinema. Abbott Elementary

SELECTED WORKS

Hand in Between Legs by Sarai Mari"Hand in Between Legs" by Sarai Mari

HOSHIKUZU by Sarai Mari "HOSHIKUZU" by Sarai Mari

 

3. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

An unusual novel about a man who might be named Piranesi, who might be one of only a few people alive in his strange world. His world is a series of rooms and vestibules, with an underground ocean, enormous staircases, and statues filling each room. He spends his time exploring and cataloguing the seemingly infinite halls and statues, before learning there might be more than he can see.

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke

SELECTED WORKS

Yusuke Ochiai HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL series

 "HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL 1" by Yusuke Ochiai

IvIvI Thinking Blind - Original (Silver) "Thinking Blind - Original (Silver)" by IvIvI

 

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