Literary Tattoos
Read 'Em and Weep! 101 Tattoos Inspired by Famous Books
The things we read in the books we love often stay with us for a long time, but for some, they stay forever — literally. Tattoos based on books are a beautiful way of keeping our favourite literary memories, characters, and quotes alive even after we've turned the last page. We've rounded up some artistic interpretations of famous works — from the Harry Potter and Hunger Games series to Pride and Prejudice and The Little Prince. Read 'em and weep!
— Additional reporting by Lauren Harano and Tara Block
1 Harry Potter Book Page Stars
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2 Anaïs Nin Quote
3 Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
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4 Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
5 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
6 The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
7 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
8 Owl and Books
9 Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
10 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
11 It, Stephen King
12 Work: A Story of Experience, Louisa May Alcott
13 Matilda, Roald Dahl
14 Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
15 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
16 Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour, J.D. Salinger
17 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
18 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
19 The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
20 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling
21 Harry Potter, Divergent, The Hunger Games, and Percy Jackson
22 The Hunger Games Mockingjay Pin
23 The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins
24 The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
25 The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
26 The Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
27 Matilda, Roald Dahl
28 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
29 To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
30 Nancy Drew and Hamlet
31 The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
32 Lord of the Rings Trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien
33 The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
34 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
35 "Annabel Lee," Edgar Allan Poe
36 Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, and Anne of Green Gables
37 A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess
38 Divergent, Veronica Roth
39 Quotation Marks
40 Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
41 The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
42 Endymion, John Keats
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43 Books Quote
44 J.R.R. Tolkien's Amalion Tree
45 Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut
46 The Elder Wand, Harry Potter Series
47 Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak
48 His Dark Materials: The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
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49 Stack of Books
50 Book
51 The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
52 The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood
53 The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
54 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
55 The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide, Douglas Adams
56 A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
57 Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
58 Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J.K. Rowling
59 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
60 Hamilton: The Revolution, Jeremy McCarter and Lin-Manuel Miranda
61 Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
62 The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
63 The Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
64 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
65 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
66 1984, George Orwell
67 The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
68 Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
69 Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
70 The Sign of Four, Arthur Conan Doyle
71 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
72 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
73 The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
74 The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
75 Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
76 The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
77 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
78 The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
79 Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
80 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
81 The Martian, Andy Weir and The Dark Series, Christine Feehan
82 Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
83 On the Road, Jack Kerouac
84 Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur
85 The Chronicles of Narnia, C.S. Lewis
86 Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
87 A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
88 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
89 Winnie-the-Pooh, A.A. Milne
90 Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
91 King of Cats, Paul Galdone
92 The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner
93 The Dark Half, Stephen King
94 Looking For Alaska, John Green
95 Breakfast of Champions, Kurt Vonnegut
96 Harry Potter Series, J.K. Rowling
97 A Court of Mist and Fury, Sarah J. Maas
98 Of Human Bondage, William Somerset Maugham
99 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
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