The Books They Carried

Photographer Jason Travis has posted a fascinating series on his Flickr account entitled, “Personas,” which explores the things people carry. Inspired by such projects as Coverspy, I decided to go one step further and pin down names and authors for as many of the books that appear in these photos as I could. They run the gamut… from Melville to Mailer, Safran Foer to Sedaris, Esquival to Eggers.

My favorite? Karla Jean, who totes, “The Magic of the Unicorn,” a choose your own adventure story. Remember those? Ah, nostalgia.

1. Jess - Love Letters of Great Women by Ursula Doyle
2. Lain - 3 by Flannery O’Connor (The Violent Bear It Away, Everything That Rises Must Converge, Wise Blood) by Flannery O’Connor
3. Whitney - Drinking at the Movies by Julia Wertz
4. Jenifer - The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
5. Courtney - How to Be a Winner at the Weight Loss Game by Walter H. Fanburg
6. Jayne - Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquival
7. Chris - Of a Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
8. Mari - Les forçats de la route by Albert Londres
9. Adam - Moby Dick by Herman Melville
10. Wade - Design as Art by Bruno Munari
11. Amy - Some Like It Wild by Teresa Medeiros
12. Patrick - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
13. Beth - Baby Animals: Black and White by Phyllis Limbacher Tildes
14. Adrienne - Logan’s Run by William F. Nolan
15. Kelly - Borges: A Reader by Emir Rodríguez Monegal & Alastair Reid
16. Titus - The Rock Bible: Unholy Scripture for Fans & Bands by Henry H. Owings & Patton Oswalt
17. Sam - Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet by Joanne Proul
18. April - A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
19. Jonathan - Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
20. Amy - Dread Scott vs. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents by Paul Finkleman (ed.)
21. Genna - The Only Dance There Is by Ram Dass
22. Jessica - Night by Élie Wiesel
23. Jess - poems by Charles Baudelaire
24. Sam - Rock On: An Office Power Ballad by Dan Kennedy & plays by William Shakespeare
25. Beryl - Benito Mussolini: The First Fascist by Anthony L. Cardoza
26. Karla Jean - The Magic of the Unicorn by Deborah Lerm
27. Jamie - A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers

(h/t MyModernMetropolis)

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