A list of the beautiful leather-bound classics released by the Barnes & Noble bookstore chain.


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138 books · 325 voters · list created June 20th, 2012 by Beth (votes) .
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message 1: by Jan (new)

Jan Kjellin These are beautiful editions. I currently own just one - the H.P. Lovecraft anthology - but these would all look good in my (physical) bookshelf. And they're all great literature as well.

A win-win situation.


message 2: by Caroline (new)

Caroline I collect these! :'D <3


message 3: by Pia (new)

Pia OMG! Look at the Anna Karenina cover!!!


message 4: by Caroline (new)

Caroline Pia wrote: "OMG! Look at the Anna Karenina cover!!!"

I own it and I love it.
It reminds me of my favorite xmas bauble as a child!


message 5: by Pia (new)

Pia I'm so jealous now! xD


message 6: by Caroline (new)

Caroline Well they're actually really cheap!


message 7: by Pia (new)

Pia IKR! I just ordered Anna Karenina and I'm soooo excited now! :D


message 8: by June (new)

June I just made it my life's goal to collect these. I already own "Pride and Prejudice" from this collection.

Can we take a moment and appreciate the breathtaking covers of "Jules Verne: Seven Novels" and "Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe"?

Sadly, B&N doesn't seem to ship internationally and not all of these books are available on Amazon.


message 9: by Caroline (new)

Caroline June wrote: "I just made it my life's goal to collect these. I already own "Pride and Prejudice" from this collection.

Can we take a moment and appreciate the breathtaking covers of "Jules Verne: Seven Novels"..."


^ I live in Norway, and they ship to me - Doesn't even take that long :)
When I have the money, I need to order more!


message 10: by Bree (new)

Bree Can anyone tell me if the novels are abridged, for instance the Jane Austen 7 novel edition? If they are all unabridged I'd rather buy it than buying the novels separately, but I wasn't sure if they had been condensed down to fit all 7 novels into one book. Please and thanks for any help!


message 11: by Bree (new)

Bree Thanks Sarah! I will probably end up buying them both ways if that's the case, I just didn't want to purchase the beautiful monster and be disappointed with an abridged version. I appreciate the help :)


message 12: by Victoria (new)

Victoria Wow, I just found 'The Bronte Sisters' for £15 in a high street store, it was in cellophane so I didn't realise it was Barnes and Noble - I got it really cheap as well, most places seem to sell it for £25, I am super happy right now. Beautiful books! :D


message 13: by Chaos (new)

Chaos I have so far in this collection, Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Iliad an Odyssey, The Divine Comedy, Alice in Wonderland and Other Stories, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.


message 14: by Amanda (new)

Amanda Victoria wrote: "Wow, I just found 'The Bronte Sisters' for £15 in a high street store, it was in cellophane so I didn't realise it was Barnes and Noble - I got it really cheap as well, most places seem to sell it ..."
Me too! I went in this particular store as I knew they sold the Penguin Clothbounds very cheaply (way cheaper than even Amazon) and found the Bronte book, though luckily I knew the style I was looking for. Will be checking the stores each time I pass them now for more =)


message 15: by Victoria (new)

Victoria Amanda wrote: "Victoria wrote: "Wow, I just found 'The Bronte Sisters' for £15 in a high street store, it was in cellophane so I didn't realise it was Barnes and Noble - I got it really cheap as well, most places..."

I went in the other day and was very tempted by the clothbound classics - it took great willpower to walk past them, because the deals are just fantastic!


message 16: by Emilee (new)

Emilee I am in love with these. I collect them! I have 17 so far but I should probably read them all before I buy anymore. :P I love the classics, especially when they look as beautiful as these do. I wish I could just buy them and read them all!!


message 17: by [deleted user] (new)

I love these books they look beautiful and I wish I can have them all.


message 18: by Zoe (new)

Zoe I own two of these. I never have had a prettier shelf.


message 19: by Infamous (new)

Infamous Gosh I need the Edgar Allen Poe one!!!


message 20: by Carly (last edited Jun 05, 2015 05:02AM) (new)

Carly I am becoming obsessed with collecting these beautiful editions of my favourite authors.
There are so many I want to buy but I can't afford all of them right now...
I currently own A hardback book of work by M.R. James, The Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft, The Eldritch Tales, the complete works of H.P. Lovecraft and I just purchased the hardback collection of Edgar Allan Poe's work and another edition of H.P. Lovecraft's complete work this has cthulhu on the cover. I wish there were more collections or hardback editions of more horror stories.


message 21: by Caroline (new)

Caroline I have 12 of these now :D


message 22: by Aiyana (new)

Aiyana I have been slowly collecting these over the past few years. Right now I have 27. They are all beautiful, I love them!


message 23: by Vegar (new)

Vegar Why is not Principia Mathematica or The Origin of Species included?


message 24: by Azur (new)

Azur Some of them show the wrong edition.


message 25: by Kimberley (new)

Kimberley I have been wanting to get these, but I have read lots of reviews of several of them on Amazon which say these are often abridged, poorly translated, and/or have been Americanised. Could someone please confirm if this is true? I only wish to buy them if they are the original text or as close as possible.


message 26: by Loreley (new)

Loreley removed some non-B&N editions


message 27: by Michele (new)

Michele Is #4 - The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
a B&N classic edition? Doesn't look like it to me.

This is the B&N classic edition
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...


message 28: by Loreley (new)

Loreley Michele wrote: "Is #4 - The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
a B&N classic edition? Doesn't look like it to me.

This is the B&N classic edition
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2......"


You're right. Removed the wrong edition and voted for the correct one


message 29: by Rita (new)

Rita Does anybody get on here any more? Because I'm about ready to change this list. There are a lot of books that are not the Barnes and Noble Leather Bound Classic Editions. Many of these are flexi-bound or children's hard cover.


message 30: by Michele (last edited Oct 11, 2018 12:04PM) (new)

Michele I still go on this list to look up some things. I don't see flexi bound or pure children's book on here. All of them seem to have come from the B&N Classics tables in the stores. But do what you want to do, I guess.


message 31: by Earl P. Dean (last edited Jan 21, 2019 11:26AM) (new)

Earl P. Dean The two OZ books on this list are nice books. I just wish they'd release their book that has the last five Baum OZ titles in it. They did a low cost set of all 14 of Baum's OZ novels in three volumes a year or two before this set started, and then they've only done two out of the three as their nice leatherbounds. I have all three of the lower budget books. The one that's missing here is called The Magic of OZ. It has the last five books. (I think-- that would mean it has the short stories in Little Wizard Stories of OZ as well as the last four novels.)


message 32: by Sarah (new)

Sarah Earl P. Dean wrote: "The two OZ books on this list are nice books. I just wish they'd release their book that has the last five Baum OZ titles in it. They did a low cost set of all 14 of Baum's OZ novels in three volumes..."

I keep hoping the last book of the set will be in their new releases, but so far...

I'm looking forward to the Sylvia Plath omnibus scheduled for March though! :)


message 33: by Daisy (new)

Daisy Banana For the collectors of this series, there’s a complete list of all the books in the B&N classics series including the different editions/cover art/contents/sub-series/translators etc here: https://beautifulbooks.info/illustrat...

I think these editions do such a great job of brightening up a bookshelf ❤️


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