TOP TEN TUESDAY | COVER RE-DESIGNS

I don’t have a ton of re-designs I loved or hated, but I do have a few special editions I like and wish were the only editions, and a few books I wish had better editions but I haven’t found any!

Books I don’t love the covers of in any edition:

I love some of these books but hate all the covers. I’ve ended up buying the best of a bad bunch of all of them, but I really wish someone would come up with better options!

Cover re-designs I love or hate:

This is the first set of covers that comes to mind when I think of a tragic re-design. The cover on the left is the style of the books in the Jackson Brodie series (as well as a couple of Atkinson’s other books) as advertised online, but apparently some crazy person decided to replace those lovely covers with the one on the right. I haven’t been able to find the original covers for any of her Jackson Brodie series, and because of that I refuse to buy them. I hate the covers that are available with the fiery passion of a thousand suns. What were they thinking????

I love the new 4th Estate covers of Adichie’s books that have come out recently – all of them are wonderful. Some of the other editions of her books are fine too, but this matching set is just great.

As some of you know, street art is my jam. Shephard Fairey (often known a Obey or Obey Giant) is one of my favourite street artists. His work is crisp, clean, and often full of important images and messaging. I can’t think of a better artist to design Orwell’s covers, and I absolutely love the Shephard Fairey editions of his classics. I’m not even an Orwell fan, but I have all of them.

There are few book covers I dislike as much as the wedding party cover of this book. It put me off picking the book up for a long time, and I think has played a part in my continual procrastination when it comes to reading it. I much prefer the black and white cover, but haven’t been able to get my hands on it, so I’m stuck with the horrid mess that is the wedding cover. Ugh.

I’m not sure which of these came first, or if one is an international edition, but I far prefer the black and white cover to the pink one.

I love the new editions that have recently come out of Miriam Toews’ books. Some of the original covers were cool too, but the new ones are even better.

Both of these are at least partly times changing. They’re novels that have been out for a while, but the newer covers have really updated the look of these classics and, hopefully, will make them appealing to a whole new audience.

I wasn’t crazy about the original cover for this one, but I absolutely love the new one.

This post was particularly frustrating to put together because I know there are so many other examples I’m just forgetting about, and that for years I will stumble across them and remember this post and kick myself for not including them. But of course, I can’t think of any of the ones I know have driven me nuts over the years. Let me know which covers have always driven you nuts or even stopped you picking up a book. And covers you absolutely love and that have made a book more appealing!

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