A Rainbow Of Literature

A big chunk of my life which I don't really share with you much on Faraway Lucy is my academia. I am a massive book nerd, a literature student and all-round lover of all things poetic. At this stage in my blogging process, I am all for experimentation; producing context that I love and finding out what floats your boat as well, so let's try something new...

This is an all classic book tour with a twist. Unfortunately I'll have to let your hopes down here and reveal that it's not that exciting or exhilarating a twist but hey ho. This is a colour orientated book tour with a focus on the beauty of book covers - I am all for those aesthetics. Clearly the literature inside is the all-important good stuff but honestly, who isn't guilty of judging a book by its cover? (By book, I mean literally a book... I'm not promoting prejudice, people!)

Not only will this article fuel my love for photography and colour but also act as a way of you guys seeing what I've read (or haven't yet read, ssh!) Book recommendations are the bees knees. Expect one too many classics, a whole lot of Shakespeare (bae) and some embarrassingly cringey chick lit.

White

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess

A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
The Color Purple - Alice Walker

Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath

This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Submarine - Joe Dunthorne
Penguin's Poems for Life - Selected by Laura Barber

Green

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

Selected Poems, 1923-58 - e.e. cummings

Ariel - Sylvia Plath

Little Women - Louisa May Alcott

Blue

The Diary of a Young Girl - Anne Frank

The Fault In Our Stars - John Green

Frankenstein - Mary Shelley

Red

The Day of the Triffids - John Wyndham 

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

The Perks of Being a Wallflower - Stephen Chbosky 

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories - Robert Louis Stevenson 

Uglies - Scott Westerfield

Ketchup Clouds - Annabel Pitcher

Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

Black

Game of Thrones - George R. R. Martin

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Autobiography - Morrissey 

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner

The Silver Linings Playbook - Matthew Quick

The Yellow Wallpaper - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Longest Journey - E. M. Forster

Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

Grey

On the Road - Jack Kerouac 

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (Oops! I used this one twice... don't question how many copies I have of this book...)

Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

Birthday Letters - Ted Hughes

Pinks, oranges and all colours in between

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck 

The Works of Oscar Wilde - Oscar Wilde

Rustic browns and creams

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Before I Go to Sleep - S.J. Watson

The Book Thief - Markus Zusak

The works of Jane Austen - Jane Austen

The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy

Rainbow

Surprisingly enough, these are not actually all of my books. Too many books fell into the category of 'one too many colours to fit into just one category'. Likewise, I don't actually own that many books - the majority of books I've read, I've taken out from a library! I also, to my stupidity, noticed a day after taking these photos that I somehow managed to miss out an entire shelf of books from my collection and am apparently too lazy to do the shoot all over again *oops*!

So, have you read any of these books? And how do you organise your book shelf? For the record, I'm lazy and mine is not organised in any particular way but I may give this colour scheme a shot in the future...

It's crazy but I now only have just 33 days left of my A Levels and then they are done forever! I am stupidly looking forward to summer and expanding my blog even further. I'm looking out for working with like-minded creative individuals and travellers - hit me up if you wanna work together, meet up, travel and create some good stuff because everything is more fun with a friend.

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