VSA Creative Director Josh Berta found a creative outlet by designing a number of COVID-themed parodies of famous book covers. Check out his collection of COVID covers and see if you recognize any of these from your own library.
The Great Fauci
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Catch-it
(Catch-22, by Joseph Heller)
Children of Zoom
(Children of Dune, by Frank Herbert)
The Amazing Adventures of Shelter & Stay
(The Amazing Adventure of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon)
The Curve Also Flattens
(The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway)
Infinite Germs
(Infinite Jest, by David Foster Wallace)
Oh, the Places You'll Stay!
(Oh, the Places You'll Go!, by Dr. Seuss)
Great Vaccinations
(Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens)
Harry Potter and the Hoarder of the Kleenex
(Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, by J.K. Rowling)
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Living Room
(The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams)
Hoard of Supplies
(Lord of the Flies, by William Golding)
The Odyssey of Home
(The Odyssey of Homer)
High Virality
(High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby)
The Hoard of the Things
(The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien)
Muddlemarch
(Middlemarch, by George Eliot)
Memes in the Time of COVID-19
(Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez)
Maybe Sick; or, The Well
(Moby Dick; or, The Whale, by Herman Melville)
COVID-1984
(Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell)
Near, The Child Things Are
(Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak )
The Ill-advised
(The Iliad, by Homer)
Walled In
(Walden, by Henry David Thoreau)
Journey to the Back of the Fridge
(Journey to the End of the Night, by Louis-Ferdinand Céline)
Tasks in Masks
(Fox in Socks, by Dr. Seuss)
Gathering Likes
(Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë)
Cruiseship Troopers
(Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein)
Brioche, Challah, Soda, Rye
(Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, by John le Carré)
Everything's Closed in Brooklyn
(A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, by Betty Smith)