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Turn to any of these praise-worthy glossy tomes for inspiration and couture worship.

Bow down at the altar of the famous, the stylish and the unholy, celebrated in this season’s crop of lavish eye candy.

Catch a wave of adventurously tsunamic reads. Set up ‘camp’ here.

May is for horses (and a stable of great design books).

It’s a melodious month in music-oriented manuscripts, filled with photographic evidence that there was life before boy bands and Britney Spears. To kick off, see where it all began with a cacophonous cornucopia of posters, album artwork, memorabilia, film stills, and photographs in Rock’n’Roll ’39-’59 by Charlie Gillett, et al. (Steidl, $80), with accompanying text by the likes of David Halberstam and Greil Marcus. Everything Elvis Presley ripped off is revealed.

Fashion tomes rule the bookstores this month. We're obsessed!