Stumble it!So what do you think are the most attractive book covers? You can name how many you want (1, 100… doesn’t matter), and I’ll put together a list later this week based on the responses.
Name the Most Attractive Book Covers
June 19th, 2008 by Nate · 7 Comments
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1 Bittersweet // Jun 20, 2008 at 12:39 am
Now I thought we weren’t to be judging books by their covers, Nate… xD
The Twilight series has lovely covers. I find Eclipse especially… elegant, maybe? When I saw Twilight on the shelf I was like “Ooh!”
The Legend of Holly Claus (my absolute favorite book) has a very exquisite cover also. Very detailed and realistic. I happen to love covers with paintings on it, for I love art nearly as much as writing!
A Great And Terrible Beauty is also quite attractive. Especially the third one in the series. (I think I have a thing for threes…)
The Palace of Laughter I found was very different from most. And I love the way the artist painted Miles and… uh… I forgot the girl’s name.
Oh, and The Luxe! I would kill for that girl’s dress. You could swim in that amount of fabric…
Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo was pretty cool. Except for Leven’s bottom lip bugged me everytime I picked up the book. (Looks at lip with distaste).
Anything that Brett Helquist painted I love. So… Chasing Vermeer, The Series of Unfortunate Events, um… The Book Thief I think… Captain Hook I think too…
Anyway, that’s all I can think of. I probably have a ton of others pooling around somewhere in the vastness of my mind but they are hiding from me. Stupid thoughts…
2 XxxDo // Jun 20, 2008 at 2:49 am
Hmmm. The book covers that catch my eye are usually either mysterious or intruiging, not neccesarily arty. They’re attractive in a dark or fascinating way.
I love the covers of Jodi Picoult’s books. There’s different versions of each of the books, but I mean the series with the photos on it. My Sister’s Keeper, the one with the orangy colour and photo of a young girl, is really, really attractive I think. The book is about a young girl, and I couldn’t help but wonder whether the cover girl was meant to be the MC when she was small. Other books by Jodi Picoult as well, such as Salem Falls, and Second Glance… there’s just something about the covers that make them even more realistic and life-like.
Also, I really like the covers of books by Kathy Reichs, such as Cross Bones, and Monday Mourning, because they’re (again) photos. With her books, though, the photos are of random things, such as a house with a red fence, or crossed twigs, etc. The cover already raises questions in your head before you start to read the story!
Can’t think of anything else right now… Hmm. I haven’t really been specific, have I? Okay then, I’m going to think until I remember a single book with an awesome cover.
*thinks for a lengthy period of time.*
Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons ! That’s a nice one
XxxDo
3 twit // Jun 20, 2008 at 1:32 pm
The Tawny Man trilogy covers done by John Howe.
A copy of Tess of the Durbevilles (however you spell the bally thing) had this nice picture of a girl on the front, but I can’t remember who it was by.
The PG Wodehouse books with the flat white people illustrations. They’re kinda… funky?
4 smorgishborg // Jun 22, 2008 at 6:56 am
Always, always judge books by their covers! Why?
Publishers get good covers for their best books.
5 Azila // Jun 24, 2008 at 10:11 am
“People of the Book” by Geraldine Brooks (http://theargonauts.info/blog/book_pob.jpg)
“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak. (http://www.alvaradopubliclibrary.org/images/book%20covers/bookthief.jpg)
“The Amulet of Samarkand” (first book in the “Bartimaeus Trilogy’) by Johnathan Stroud (http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n17/n87129.jpg) UK version, I think.
“Born to Kvetch” by Michael Wex (http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5955/145/1600/kvetch.0.jpg) I think it’s a picture of the author when he was little.
Well that’s all I can think of right now…
6 Leja // Jun 26, 2008 at 6:59 pm
- Janet Evonavich books
- The Glass Castle
- Animal Vegetable Miracle
- Everything is Illuminated
- A Million Little Pieces
Unfortunately, I tend not to like the content of the books with the pretty covers, haha
7 Adnamarine // Jun 26, 2008 at 11:47 pm
-Inkheart, and Inkspell
-Hawksong
-the Thief, Queen of Attolia, and the King of Attolia (the new covers for the Thief and Queen of A, not old)
-Wildwood Dancing
-Daughter of the Forest (the girl on it isn’t necessarily pretty, I just love the image)
There aren’t a lot of covers that particularily strike my fancy to the point that I remember them as something special. When I made this list I had to look up some of the books to remember what the cover looked like and make sure I liked it.
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