Top Ten Favorite Book Covers
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the bloggers over at the Broke and the Bookish. Book bloggers from all around create lists based on the chosen topics, and post links to the host blog to share our love of books. Today is a FREEBIE day, since it’s Christmas. I thought I’d share some visual glory with you — my top ten favorite book covers OF ALL TIME.
This is an update post of my favorite covers, as I covered this same topic in last March in a video blog. I’ve been impressed by book covers this year, so I decided to tackle it again. You can check out that March video blog here if you are interested in seeing me hold books up and talk about them.
Instead of detailing why I love each one, I’ll just list some general trends in awesome book covers and then let you enjoy the pretty as you scroll down the page. One things that really can draw my attention is a great font or a title that takes up the majority of the front cover. Even though you can’t see it here, I also like books with horizontal titles on the spine (like The Watch That Ends the Night). I generally like simple and/or symmetrical. I don’t tend to like covers with cheesy girls and boys holding hands, covers where you can’t see the person’s face, or “cute” covers. But there’s always an exception to every rule (The Selection features a girl in a crazy beautiful dress, for example, and I typically find such covers cheesy). Here are my picks:
Top Ten Favorite Book Covers
[I'm giving you literary eye candy for Christmas!]
Which books covers are your favorite? What makes a good book cover? What turns you off on a book cover?
Posted on December 25, 2012, in books, librarian, lists and tagged book covers, Top Ten Tuesday, ya. Bookmark the permalink. 26 Comments.
No love for The Great Gatsby?
Not today. Even if it was in my Christmas gift pile
My students love asking about what’s going on in the artwork on Gatsby. I was thinking the same thing, Seth.
I love The Unit Cover! Happy Holidays!
Carson @ Reader with Voice
My Top Ten Tuesday
I love these covers; my favorites are Across the Universe & Bunheads!
Here’s my Top Ten Tuesday list: Top Ten Catchiest Book Titles:
http://aliceinreaderland.wordpress.com/2012/12/25/catchiest-titles/
Alice @ Alice in Readerland
Your copy of the book of blood and shadow has a much nicer cover than mine!
Which cover do you have? Is it the almost cartoonish cover with the girl running? Because that one doesn’t seem to advertise what that book is really about.
Yeah, I’ve got the blue and white cover with a girl in a purple coat running along a bridge… Its a good thing I got it based on meeting the author rather than picking it for the story! It still hasn’t left my to read pile so I’m not sure how the illustration ties into the story yet!
I am completely enamored with the Matched cover.
The whole Matched trilogy looks awesome together. At first I didn’t really get the girl in the bubble thing, but I love it on the cover of Reached.
I love the Reached cover too. For some reason, though, I am less than enamored with the Crossed cover. It seems a little contrived.
I’ve noticed a lot of people picked this topic for their freebie Top Ten Tuesday today, which is OK with me. I like book contents, but I like the book eye candy too! I’ve never seen that cover for Sense and Sensibility but I LOVE it.
These are all great covers. Good choices! Some of these are on my TBR list.
Check out my TTT.
Sandy @ Somewhere Only We Know
You have some great choices here! I love the Across the Universe cover. I’m so upset they decided to change the style on the next book. I recently fell in love with the cover or Meant to Be by Lauren Morrill. I think I like it because it is so different from other books. Whatever it is, the cover tells me to read it now… which is what is important to me!
I also did a Top Ten Book covers! I LOVE the cover for the Selection. Totally would have put that on my list. Bunheads is gorgeous too. I’m definitely a “judge a book by its cover” kind of gal, so good book cover design is a MUST when I’m browsing.
Oh wow! I’ve never seen that Sense and Sensibility cover before. It’s absolutely GORGEOUS!
It’s from Splinter. They sent them to me a few months ago, I think six different classics with cover artwork by Sara Singh (Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights). They are all GORGEOUS.
The Cover for Bunheads is beautiful, great list
I will always love this version of “Moominvalley in November” by Tove Jansson. It captures the atmosphere of the book perfectly – and it is one of the best books ever written in my opinion as well.
http://s3.mugglenet.com/news/2012/5/november.jpg
I have never heard of or seen that book, but the cover is intriguing!
I love the cover for The Selection. I haven’t read the book, but the cover is so pretty. I love that color blue. And The Statistical Probability has one of my favorite covers. TFIOS is pretty awesome too.
The Selection is (yet another) dystopian trilogy, so I would recommend waiting until they all come out if you plan to read it. The second book is similar, but with a red dress.
I personally have read The Fault in Our Stars and The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight – Though TFIOS had a simple cover, the actual story brilliant; so much so that it made me a cry a little. For TSPOLAFS (looong title) I love the title of the books and the cover but I was expecting a little more from the book.
Though I am one of those people who do judge a book by it’s cover, some of the best books do have the simple and less attractive covers
(Well that;s just my opinion!)
I love simple covers — simple and bold — so TFIOS was right up my alley. And I agree that TSPOLAFS was a bit of a let down. I only read it because of the cover!
I judge a book by its praises and covers – And I honestly read TSPOLAFS because of its amazing title and cover, but I read TFIOS because of its praise
I can’t. I just can’t choose a favorite
Great choices.