10 Celebs Who Look Pretty Darn Good Posing With Books

Plus some of them also read and write books and/or direct movies based on books!

1. Gwyneth Paltrow

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Gwyneth Paltrow has authored My Father's Daughter: Delicious, Easy Recipes Celebrating Family & Togetherness, It's All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes That Will Make You Look Good and Feel Great and Notes from My Kitchen Table.

2. Björk

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“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can sympathize with, but you will find the right film or the right book, and it will understand you," said Björk who wrote the book entitled Björk. She said in this interview that she has a lot of favorite books, but the only ones she's re-read are the Diaries of Anais Nin.

3. Karl Lagerfeld

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"Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books," said fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld, who is pictured with part of his personal book collection (want!) and has done over 70 books, editing most recently

The World According to Karl.

4. Emma Watson

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"I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time," Emma Watson told Time.

5. Henry Rollins

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Henry Rollins has written over 15 books from Get in the Van, his firsthand of account of life on the road with Black Flag, to Occupants, Rollins' visceral writings and full-color photographs from his travels in Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Northern Ireland, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.

6. Natalie Portman

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Natalie Portman's directorial debut is a film adaptation of the best-selling book by Amos Oz, A Tale of Love and Darkness.

7. John Waters

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John Waters has written several books, most recently, Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America , where he literally hitchhiked across America to gain the experiences to write the book.

He's seen here in his home library (want!) from the book John Waters (Place Space) .

8. Madonna

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In 1992, Madonna released her extremely controversial book, Sex, which sold over 150,000 copies on its first day of release and topped The NYT Best Seller list. It's become one of the most sought-after out-of-print books of all time.

Since then, she's written numerous children's books including The English Roses Series and Five Books for Children Series.

9. Kelly Clarkson

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Kelly Clarkson's favorite book is Jane Eyre. She's also a fan of Jane Austen, bidding on and winning Austen's ring only to give it up again to the Jane Austen Museum when other fans raised money to win the ring back for public display.

10. Keith Richards

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Richards is seen here in his Connecticut home library (want!). He's written the personal memoir Life and more recently Gus and Me, with his daughter Theodora.