They say “don’t judge a book by it’s cover.” I say, go ahead and judge, especially when it comes to coffee table books. That’s why you display them after all — because they are worthy of displaying within the home, most commonly on the aforementioned obvious coffee table. So while you should obviously find coffee table books that are of interest to you, I think it’s safe to say a lot of people are immediately drawn to how a book looks on the exterior. After all, you want the book to go along with your home’s décor.

I love collecting books on design, fine art and artists, fashion, nature, & photography, and I find so many are just as compelling to read as they are to simply look at (as I shared in my previous post on more great stylish coffee table books here) where I grouped books by topic.

Whether you are looking for a perfect gift, or want to find a beautiful, stylish book to brighten up your coffee table or bookshelf to suit your home, I’ve grouped some of my favorite hardback books by color.

Shop my favorite stylish picks below…

shop WHITE books:

1 Josef Albers: Midnight and Noon | 2 Peaks of Europe | 3 New Southern Style | 4 Georgia O’Keefe: Watercolors | 5 Cy Twombly: Making Past Present | 6 Streets of New York | 7 The Big Book of Chic | 8 Ansel Adams in the National Parks | 9 Richard Serra: Vertical and Horizontal Reversals

shop BEIGE + NEUTRAL books:

1 Sean Scully: Human | 2 Robert Ryman | 3 Jasper Johns: Redo an Eye | 4 American Photographs | 5 Architectural Digest at 100 | 6 Lucas Arruda: Deserto-Modelo | 7 Lucio Fontana: On the Threshold | 8 The Architecture of Trees | 9 Stone

shop books in EARTH TONES:

1 Brick | 2 The Cy Twombly Gallery | 3 J.M.W. Turner the ‘Wilson’ Sketchbook | 4 At Home in Joshua Tree | 5 Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings | 6 Forest | 7 Pierre Yovanovitch: Interior Architecture | 8 Sean Godsell: Houses | 9 Louis Vuitton: Catwalk

shop BLUE & GREEN books:

1 Henry Wessel: Hitchhike | 2 Rafael Pardo: New Brutalism | 3 Agnes Martin | 4 Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs | 5 Josef Albers: Interaction | 6 David Collins Studio: ABCDCS | 7 Living with Pattern | 8 Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature | 9 Morning Noon Night

shop GRAY books:

1 Picasso Sculpture | 2 The High Line | 3 Santorini | 4 Made for Living | 5 Mary Corse | 6 Vincent Van Duysen Works | 7 Liaigre Creation 2016-2020 | 8 The Man Behind The Maps | 9 Design by Nature

Shop all the books together …

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