15 of Your Favorite Books as Bathing Suits

1. Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut

First sentence: All this happened, more or less.Swimsuit: Kudeta Bikini, $45

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We're not sure what would come first here -- picking your bikini design or selecting your beach read. Either way, Kate Imbach's idea is genius.

Imbach, who lives in San Francisco, started matchbook.nu after a vacation she took just a couple of weeks ago.

"I noticed a woman at the pool reading a book that incidentally matched her bathing suit almost perfectly. So when I got home, I started looking at lots of book covers and bikinis," she says. "After awhile, I started to make some interesting connections between the two."

Imbach doesn't actually design the bathing suits herself, but she carefully selects each of the clever matches.

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