Judge a book, buy its covers.
Type a title and see the covers it has been printed with, by language and year. Then find the edition you’d actually want on your shelf.
Start with a classic
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf
Malina
Ingeborg Bachmann
Solaris
Stanisław Lem
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert
L’étranger
Albert Camus
Der Proceß
Franz Kafka
Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Der Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Invisible Man
Ralph Ellison
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
The Remains of the Day
Kazuo Ishiguro
Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald