I’m a sucker for book covers that appeal to me. I don’t know if it’s because my dad is a designer and my mom is an art lover, so I’ve always been surrounded by beautiful art, or if it’s just a peculiarity of mine. Whatever the reason, I have a lot of trouble bringing home books with covers I find distasteful. So there are some books I’ll order internationally because I prefer the European cover, or books I’ll buy a new edition of if I hated the original cover and they get re-released. Here are some of the covers I like, and the alternatives I wasn’t so crazy about!
I much prefer the one on the right for this one. I like the colours and the way the rain plays with the text. I’m not usually a fan of faces on book covers anyway, so the one on the left just isn’t my aesthetic.
I thought I preferred the edition on the right – I’m not crazy about still lives of fruit – but when I saw it in person I actually ended up liking it more!
I actually like both of these cover, but the one on the left has a slight edge. I love the colours and composition.
I much prefer the new edition on the left – I love stark trees and the colours and swirls in the background are just so gorgeous!
And a few I really didn’t like:
And a few books that are coming out this year with beautiful covers:
That’s it for me this week – I have the worst cold I’ve had in a decade and very much want to be asleep right now! Let me know which covers you like, and if any of the books in my post made yours this week!
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Hope you feel better soon! I also like the fruity Three Women cover better.
This was a nice approach to this week’s topic. It’s interesting to see how much a book cover can change someone’s opinion of whether they want to read it.
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I definitely don’t subscribe to the old “don’t judge a book by its cover” adage. I do. All. The. Time. If I don’t like the cover of a book, I have to really love the author or have great feedback from multiple highly respected (by me) sources to get me to give the book a try. The Dutch House is an example of this. I hate that cover, and it stopped me buying the book. But then I started hearing great things about it so I sampled the first little bit and found that I actually do like the writing, so I’ve overcome my distaste for the cover (it’s a hardback, I can just set aside the dust jacket) and picked it up. But yeah, covers really do matter – we all make assumptions about a book based on the cover design, and there have been a few times when the cover really doesn’t suit a book and I feel like it could have gotten a much wider audience with a better suited cover design!
It’s so cool that your dad is a cover designer. 🙂
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Oh, he’s not a cover designer (though he totally could be), but he does so many different types of design and art that his eye and feel for aesthetics are apparent in everything from the car he drives to the lighting in his house to the day-to-day items he uses. Everything has to pass his designer’s standards, and few things actually do! So I was brought up with an appreciation for things that are well thought out, especially if they also look good. (My biggest poor design pet peeve is all the cell phones with the power button directly across form the volume buttons so you can’t press the volume without turning off the phone. It would be so easy to fix, and yet generation after generation of phones have this same flaw. Infuriating!)