8 Literary Snapchat Lenses Every Reader Needs

The Sorting Hat: There are enough ideas from the Harry Potter series for the Boy Who Lived to have his own Snapchat lens takeover day. There’s Harry Potter face, complete with glasses and lightning bolt scar; Voldemort’s monstrous visage; and, of course, a Daily Prophet cover with moving pictures. But the one that we’d like to see the most is the Sorting Hat plopped onto our selfie and then proclaiming to which house we belong.
Fake Book Covers: New York comedian Scott Rogowsky started trolling people on the subway earlier this year by creating fake book covers like Human Taxidermy: A Beginner’s Guide and Gone Girl 2: Even Goner to spark some funny reactions from his fellow riders. Rogowsky’s viral videos featuring the often NSFW covers could inspire a new Snapchat lens in which the selfie-taker raises her eyebrows and up pops a different fake cover each time to make it look like you really are reading Lean Back, the (completely fake) Fat Joe memoir penned by Sheryl Sandberg.
Rotting Pig Head on a Stick: OK, yes, this one is kind of gross, but it’s a famous literary symbol! And seeing the flies orbiting their own rotting pig heads on Snapchat might even inspire some teens to read more than just the SparkNotes for Lord of the Flies.

The Great Gatsby Book Cover: The cover of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic The Great Gatsby—created by Spanish artist Francis Cugat—is nearly as iconic as the book itself. Sad eyes, a heavy brow, and a red lip adrift against a deep blue night sky makes for a striking cover and Snap lens.
Book Cover Face Swap: It’s just like regular face swap except you don’t need another person (or animal) face with which to swap—just hold up your latest read, and your face will be magically transferred to the cover.
Crushed by Book Avalanche: It’s a chronic problem faced by all book lovers—too many books, not enough space for them all. This Snapchat lens would give you a little glimpse into the future of what could happen if you let those stacks get too out of control. It would show towers of books all around you teetering, then when you open your mouth—BOOM! Crushed by book avalanche. Not such a terrible way to go for a bibliophile.
Evil Librarian Face: We all have recollections of being shushed at some point by a librarian—and maybe we’ve even become the shushers now ourselves at those times when we’re deeply entrenched in a book and keep getting interrupted by those damn kids who just won’t shut up! To that end, we give you the Evil Librarian Face. At first, she just looks like a kindly old librarian—hair in a bun, glasses, demure cardigan—but when you bring your finger up to your lips in a “shhhh!” motion, her face turns demonic, complete with gray skin, red eyes, and pointy teeth. Just like the librarian of your nightmares.

Twilight Vampire: We all know that the vampires in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series turned super-hot once they became immortal, so we thought it would be fun to have a new beautifying lens that let’s us see what we’d look like if Edward Cullen gave us a little bite.
What book-themed lenses would you like to see added to Snapchat?