Inspired by Postcards from Penguin, a card collection based on classic Penguin book covers, one couple created a massive wall hanging tribute to their favorite books.

The couple posted the entire project on Reddit’s DIY section. In the photo set embedded above, you can explore the entire project from start to finish. Here’s more from the post:

We’re both huge book lovers, so we immediately began thinking of ways to use them in an interesting, decorative way … We tried various layouts, eventually deciding that a shifting color scheme would be the most aesthetically pleasing. We cherry-picked some titles that we were particularly fond of. Among them: The Catcher in the Rye, A Clockwork Orange, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, The Great Gatsby, and 1984. Among the authors: H.G. Wells, Roald Dahl, Raymond Chandler, and Graham Greene.

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Author Hugh Wilford‘s new book, “The Mighty Wurlitzer: How the CIA Played America” reveals how the CIA influenced popular culture in a variety of unexpected ways. In a long Commentary essay, for instance, the CIA’s influence on films, art, and publishing is laid out in amazing detail. The CIA dealt with every corner of culture, from a New York Times publisher to the producers of a Jerry Lewis picture.

Here’s an excerpt from the article: “In addition to providing most of the funding for an animated film version of Animal Farm, George Orwell‘s anti-Stalinist fable, the CIA planted an operative inside Paramount Pictures … Another operative worked directly with the writer-director Joseph L. Mankiewicz to shape the film version of Graham Greene‘s novel The Quiet American.”

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