16 Book Covers as Rihanna Outfits

There’s little doubt in my mind that we are approaching a singularity in which Rihanna is an essential part of all cultural consumption. She’s dominated music, beauty, and now fashion, so it seemed only natural to me that her clout should extend to literature, too. She has the range. I collected some evidence of Rihanna’s uncanny ability to match even the most ambitious and current of book covers, to the extent that I’m wondering if the publishing industry has just been incepted by RiRi’s inexorable influence. I started cataloguing these on Twitter, but I’ve added some never-before-seen evidence too—all in all, it’s too much to be a coincidence. The book industry is going full RiRi, and I for one couldn’t be happier.