Best Book Cover Art (2885 books)

Best Book Cover Art

What books do you think have the best cover art?

1	Twilight (Twilight, #1) by Stephenie Meyer 3.67 avg rating — 842,327 ratings score: 43,731, and 445 people voted	My rating:
2	Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1) by Becca Fitzpatrick (Goodreads Author) 4.02 avg rating — 60,172 ratings score: 41,102, and 420 people voted	My rating:
3	The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield 3.89 avg rating — 68,650 ratings score: 39,352, and 403 people voted	My rating:
4	New Moon (Twilight, #2) by Stephenie Meyer 3.64 avg rating — 462,822 ratings score: 32,977, and 338 people voted	My rating:
5	Breaking Dawn (Twilight, #4) by Stephenie Meyer 3.77 avg rating — 413,500 ratings score: 29,821, and 309 people voted	My rating:
6	Fallen (Fallen, #1) by Lauren Kate (Goodreads Author) 3.77 avg rating — 58,098 ratings score: 28,686, and 299 people voted	My rating:
7	Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss 4.25 avg rating — 57,206 ratings score: 28,487, and 289 people voted	My rating:
8	Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1) by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author) 3.89 avg rating — 66,252 ratings score: 25,165, and 267 people voted	My rating:
9	Eclipse (Twilight, #3) by Stephenie Meyer 3.83 avg rating — 443,284 ratings score: 24,323, and 254 people voted	My rating:
10	Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden 3.95 avg rating — 478,194 ratings score: 24,028, and 249 people voted	My rating:
11	Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith 3.25 avg rating — 32,322 ratings score: 22,333, and 231 people voted	My rating:
12	The Host (The Host, #1) by Stephenie Meyer 3.87 avg rating — 151,046 ratings score: 21,217, and 221 people voted	My rating:
13	Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, #1) by Melissa Marr (Goodreads Author) 3.74 avg rating — 41,671 ratings score: 19,847, and 209 people voted	My rating:
14	A Great and Terrible Beauty (Gemma Doyle, #1) by Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 53,236 ratings score: 19,563, and 204 people voted	My rating:
15	City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1) by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author) 4.17 avg rating — 108,727 ratings score: 16,527, and 177 people voted	My rating:
16	Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen 4.06 avg rating — 308,372 ratings score: 15,100, and 159 people voted	My rating:
17	Tithe (The Modern Faerie Tales, #1) by Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 3.71 avg rating — 19,626 ratings score: 15,022, and 158 people voted	My rating:
18	The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1) by Rick Riordan 4.13 avg rating — 155,701 ratings score: 14,737, and 154 people voted	My rating:
19	To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 4.18 avg rating — 889,177 ratings score: 14,495, and 151 people voted	My rating:
20	Uglies (Uglies, #1) by Scott Westerfeld 3.89 avg rating — 85,457 ratings score: 14,223, and 150 people voted	My rating:
21	The Luxe (Luxe, #1) by Anna Godbersen 3.68 avg rating — 18,907 ratings score: 14,106, and 151 people voted	My rating:
22	The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 404,994 ratings score: 14,101, and 148 people voted	My rating:
23	1984 by George Orwell 4.01 avg rating — 522,938 ratings score: 13,451, and 142 people voted	My rating:
24	Halo (Halo, #1) by Alexandra Adornetto 3.68 avg rating — 12,384 ratings score: 13,255, and 144 people voted	My rating:
25	Torment (Fallen, #2) by Lauren Kate (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 31,733 ratings score: 13,135, and 144 people voted	My rating:
26	Coraline by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 64,848 ratings score: 12,467, and 131 people voted	My rating:
27	The Monsters Of Templeton by Lauren Groff 3.54 avg rating — 6,428 ratings score: 12,201, and 129 people voted	My rating:
28	Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices #1) by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 49,745 ratings score: 12,083, and 133 people voted	My rating:
29	Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 69,289 ratings score: 11,435, and 123 people voted	My rating:
30	Evermore (The Immortals, #1) by Alyson Noel (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 51,171 ratings score: 11,215, and 125 people voted	My rating:
31	Masquerade (Blue Bloods, #2) by Melissa de la Cruz 3.94 avg rating — 24,575 ratings score: 11,178, and 124 people voted	My rating:
31	Nightshade (Nightshade, #1) by Andrea Cremer (Goodreads Author) 4.10 avg rating — 15,837 ratings score: 11,178, and 124 people voted	My rating:
33	The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly 3.90 avg rating — 14,635 ratings score: 11,117, and 118 people voted	My rating:
34	Poison Study (Study, #1) by Maria V. Snyder (Goodreads Author) 4.21 avg rating — 21,163 ratings score: 10,991, and 116 people voted	My rating:
35	The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author) 4.33 avg rating — 148,710 ratings score: 10,631, and 115 people voted	My rating:
36	The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 13,327 ratings score: 10,520, and 112 people voted	My rating:
37	Fragile Eternity (Wicked Lovely, #3) by Melissa Marr (Goodreads Author) 3.82 avg rating — 14,770 ratings score: 10,223, and 113 people voted	My rating:
38	The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1) by Suzanne Collins 4.54 avg rating — 430,968 ratings score: 10,087, and 110 people voted	My rating:
39	Ink Exchange (Wicked Lovely, #2) by Melissa Marr (Goodreads Author) 3.65 avg rating — 20,527 ratings score: 10,063, and 110 people voted	My rating:
40	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 3.76 avg rating — 223,054 ratings score: 9,968, and 105 people voted	My rating:
41	The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) 4.09 avg rating — 58,955 ratings score: 9,479, and 102 people voted	My rating:
42	A Million Little Pieces by James Frey 3.49 avg rating — 68,336 ratings score: 9,359, and 99 people voted	My rating:
43	Eyes Like Stars (Théâtre Illuminata, #1) by Lisa Mantchev (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 3,964 ratings score: 9,292, and 104 people voted	My rating:
44	Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 14,295 ratings score: 9,247, and 101 people voted	My rating:
45	The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier 3.63 avg rating — 4,427 ratings score: 9,104, and 96 people voted	My rating:
46	Only Revolutions by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author) 3.14 avg rating — 1,788 ratings score: 9,045, and 96 people voted	My rating:
47	Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil by John Berendt 3.76 avg rating — 46,547 ratings score: 8,993, and 96 people voted	My rating:
48	The Dark Divine (The Dark Divine, #1) by Bree Despain (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 11,110 ratings score: 8,932, and 103 people voted	My rating:
49	The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien 4.10 avg rating — 543,727 ratings score: 8,877, and 95 people voted	My rating:
50	The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 38,596 ratings score: 8,785, and 97 people voted	My rating:
51	Secret Speakers and the Search for Selador's Gate by Karey (K.S.R. Kingworth) Shane (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 164 ratings score: 8,523, and 95 people voted	My rating:
52	Envy (Luxe, #3) by Anna Godbersen 3.91 avg rating — 7,931 ratings score: 8,456, and 95 people voted	My rating:
53	City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments, #2) by Cassandra Clare (Goodreads Author) 4.30 avg rating — 78,548 ratings score: 8,405, and 97 people voted	My rating:
54	Daughter of the Flames (Ruan, #1) by Zoë Marriott (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 751 ratings score: 8,261, and 88 people voted	My rating:
55	Rumors (Luxe, #2) by Anna Godbersen 3.86 avg rating — 11,067 ratings score: 7,911, and 91 people voted	My rating:
56	Od Magic by Patricia A. McKillip 3.92 avg rating — 1,176 ratings score: 7,757, and 84 people voted	My rating:
57	The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3.70 avg rating — 665,988 ratings score: 7,488, and 79 people voted	My rating:
58	Zerostrata by Andersen Prunty (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 102 ratings score: 7,473, and 78 people voted	My rating:
59	The Awakening (Darkest Powers, #2) by Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author) 4.18 avg rating — 23,860 ratings score: 7,378, and 87 people voted	My rating:
60	Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak 4.28 avg rating — 130,860 ratings score: 7,301, and 79 people voted	My rating:
61	The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 3.95 avg rating — 131,036 ratings score: 7,277, and 78 people voted	My rating:
62	The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #5) by Rick Riordan 4.43 avg rating — 71,829 ratings score: 7,113, and 80 people voted	My rating:
63	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7) by J.K. Rowling 4.51 avg rating — 534,340 ratings score: 7,035, and 78 people voted	My rating:
64	Graceling (The Seven Kingdoms, #1) by Kristin Cashore 4.13 avg rating — 47,472 ratings score: 7,017, and 82 people voted	My rating:
65	Peter and the Shadow Thieves (Peter and the Starcatchers, #2) by Dave Barry 4.13 avg rating — 8,360 ratings score: 6,979, and 76 people voted	My rating:
66	The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey 4.49 avg rating — 6,265 ratings score: 6,918, and 73 people voted	My rating:
67	Ironside (The Modern Faerie Tales, #3) by Holly Black (Goodreads Author) 4.00 avg rating — 10,168 ratings score: 6,688, and 73 people voted	My rating:
68	Wicked : The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (Wicked Years, #1) by Gregory Maguire 3.36 avg rating — 172,463 ratings score: 6,563, and 74 people voted	My rating:
69	Truly, Madly, Deeply. by Faraaz Kazi (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 528 ratings score: 6,433, and 65 people voted	My rating:
70	The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory 3.95 avg rating — 120,548 ratings score: 6,309, and 68 people voted	My rating:
71	The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3) by Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 21,389 ratings score: 6,272, and 72 people voted	My rating:
72	The Van Alen Legacy (Blue Bloods, #4) by Melissa de la Cruz 3.99 avg rating — 17,669 ratings score: 6,162, and 73 people voted	My rating:
73	Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2) by Suzanne Collins 4.38 avg rating — 294,700 ratings score: 6,061, and 70 people voted	My rating:
74	The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami 4.20 avg rating — 41,159 ratings score: 5,149, and 56 people voted	My rating:
75	Sporadic Memories by Ali Marsman (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 43 ratings score: 4,981, and 55 people voted	My rating:
76	The Princess Bride by William Goldman 4.19 avg rating — 204,988 ratings score: 4,873, and 56 people voted	My rating:
77	The Iron King (Iron Fey, #1) by Julie Kagawa (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 21,986 ratings score: 4,839, and 58 people voted	My rating:
78	Amphigorey: Fifteen Books by Edward Gorey 4.42 avg rating — 4,076 ratings score: 4,824, and 52 people voted	My rating:
79	Maledicte (Antyre, #1) by Lane Robins 3.68 avg rating — 274 ratings score: 4,812, and 55 people voted	My rating:
80	Matched (Matched, #1) by Ally Condie 3.81 avg rating — 47,301 ratings score: 4,806, and 55 people voted	My rating:
81	The Reaper by Joseph McGee (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 29 ratings score: 4,775, and 55 people voted	My rating:
82	Choke by Chuck Palahniuk 3.62 avg rating — 52,105 ratings score: 4,747, and 52 people voted	My rating:
83	Fire (The Seven Kingdoms, #2) by Kristin Cashore 4.11 avg rating — 22,743 ratings score: 4,719, and 56 people voted	My rating:
84	Watchmen by Alan Moore 4.28 avg rating — 83,401 ratings score: 4,658, and 52 people voted	My rating:
85	Howl's Moving Castle (Castle, #1) by Diana Wynne Jones 4.27 avg rating — 26,450 ratings score: 4,467, and 50 people voted	My rating:
86	Peter and the Starcatchers (Peter and the Starcatchers, #1) by Dave Barry 4.00 avg rating — 14,760 ratings score: 4,458, and 52 people voted	My rating:
87	A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore 4.07 avg rating — 23,935 ratings score: 4,428, and 50 people voted	My rating:
88	The Dangerous Book for Boys by Conn Iggulden 4.05 avg rating — 2,193 ratings score: 4,317, and 48 people voted	My rating:
89	Wings (Wings, #1) by Aprilynne Pike 3.77 avg rating — 18,481 ratings score: 4,223, and 51 people voted	My rating:
90	Viva Loss by Sarah Fran Wisby 4.29 avg rating — 35 ratings score: 4,200, and 45 people voted	My rating:
91	Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 3.75 avg rating — 73,184 ratings score: 4,164, and 45 people voted	My rating:
92	Prophecy of the Sisters (Prophecy of the Sisters, #1) by Michelle Zink (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 4,853 ratings score: 3,998, and 47 people voted	My rating:
93	Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse, #1) by Charlaine Harris 3.91 avg rating — 120,858 ratings score: 3,906, and 46 people voted	My rating:
94	Need (Need, #1) by Carrie Jones (Goodreads Author) 3.72 avg rating — 16,622 ratings score: 3,833, and 49 people voted	My rating:
95	Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire 3.43 avg rating — 26,013 ratings score: 3,540, and 41 people voted	My rating:
96	Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke 3.74 avg rating — 40,511 ratings score: 3,511, and 39 people voted	My rating:
97	Avempartha (The Riyria Revelations, #2) by Michael J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 660 ratings score: 3,500, and 40 people voted	My rating:
98	Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow 3.91 avg rating — 1,782 ratings score: 3,493, and 39 people voted	My rating:
99	Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2) by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 31,751 ratings score: 3,485, and 42 people voted	My rating:
100	The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 3.86 avg rating — 381,718 ratings score: 3,358, and 40 people voted	My rating:

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message 1: by Debbie (new)

Aug 10, 2008 10:22pm

i like this list because you didn't even have to read the book to be a part of it and the art on some of these books are really cool

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message 2: by Judi (new)

Oct 29, 2008 07:25pm

I'm going to vote for the best cover as...In Over Her Head by Judi Fennell - at www.JudiFennell.com

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message 3: by Kimberly (new)

Oct 29, 2008 08:12pm

I have to agree with Debbie - love a couple of the cover art work but agree with Judi - have to say i think our book covers for both Escape from the Pharma Drug Cartel and Shattered Reality could compete very well here. Thanks and best of luck to those authors involved.
www.kimberlycheryl.net

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message 4: by Mark (last edited Oct 30, 2008 05:14am) (new)

Oct 30, 2008 05:08am

With all due respect, these are all hideous mass-market eyesores. The books themselves may be excellent, mind you, but mass market books are cheap and ugly by nature. For truly beautiful book-objects one needs to look at presses like Ugly Duckling Presse or Futurepoem, or any press whose primary purpose is something other than selling crap to people waiting to board airplanes or to read on the train. For attractive glossy mass-market type covers, I think comics, graphic novels or classic sci-fi or pulp books are far more attractive than the abominations we see here. Of all of them, the old art deco Atlas Shrugged cover is passable, despite the fact that I loathe Ayn Rand with every fiber of my being.

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message 5: by J.R. (new)

Oct 30, 2008 06:30am

For truly imaginative work you might consider Jinger Heaston's cover for my 'Corruption's Child' or Molly Courtright's for my 'Cruel Cuts' both available from Whiskey Creek Press, www.whiskeycreekpress.com

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message 6: by Dustin (new)

Oct 31, 2008 10:15am

Mark: not all of them. Paradise Stories, a masterful work of short fiction, has original art on its cover, a beautiful painting done specifically for the book by Joshua Evans.

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message 7: by Molly (new)

Nov 03, 2008 06:52pm

How many Stephenie Meyer fans are voting because they like the series and not because they think the covers are great? I mean, they work, sure, but, come on!

Twilight

really not so special.

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message 8: by Muzzlehatch (new)

Nov 10, 2008 11:09pm

The real problem with this list is that you just get whatever cover of the book happens to show up under the "primary" listing; so for an older book with dozens or even hundreds of editions, you might well end up with a very unattractive cover showing on this website. I love the Richard Powers art on H.G. Wells "The Time Machine", and other Wells paperbacks published by Berkley from the 50s-70s, but those aren't what I see when I look up the books here.

Which I suppose might be a partial explanation for why almost all of the books listed here are relatively new books that only have 1 or 2 different covers to choose from...

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message 9: by Travis (new)

Feb 02, 2009 07:10pm

If you hate the "mass market" covers, which really don't dominate as much as Mark says (except maybe Twilight), then look further down the list. The covers with fewer votes usually represent the covers that really drew the reader in, instead of just books that were voted for because they're popular and have a lot of fans here who are voting.

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message 10: by MB (new)

Feb 27, 2009 04:29pm

I voted for the covers I chose because I think they suited and enhanced the book inside. AND that they were attractive artistically.

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message 11: by Mike (last edited Mar 02, 2009 12:11pm) (new)

Feb 28, 2009 02:01pm

My votes go to Gravity's Rainbow and A Confederacy of Dunces. Almost every edition for these novels, including the first edition and more recent editions, have had a visually pleasing cover that prepares one for what's inside.

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message 12: by Nicole (new)

Mar 18, 2009 07:03pm

I can't even believe that Stephanie Meyer books are on this list.

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message 13: by Ariel (new)

Mar 23, 2009 08:16am

love your picks {despite what mark says!}. except for stephenie meyer's books. i'm not a fan of the cover art on those.

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message 14: by Katie (last edited Apr 05, 2009 12:10pm) (new)

Apr 05, 2009 12:09pm

who keeps voting for stephenie meyer and her boring stock-photo covers?

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message 15: by Nemesis (new)

Apr 28, 2009 04:31am

Katie wrote: "who keeps voting for stephenie meyer and her boring stock-photo covers?"

I guess some people like the covers and their "Symbolism".. the only one I thought had a meaning was the first cover, and the apple is a cliché nevertheless.

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message 16: by Marc (new)

May 12, 2009 03:20am

I'm adding many of the covers produced by my publisher, Echelon Press, including

A Warrior Made (Flame in the Bowl Book Two) (Flame in the Bowl)

, and

The Rosary Bride A Cloistered Death (Grace Marsden Mystery, Book One)

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message 17: by arianna (new)

May 12, 2009 07:04am

Mark wrote: "With all due respect, these are all hideous mass-market eyesores. The books themselves may be excellent, mind you, but mass market books are cheap and ugly by nature. For truly beautiful book-obj..."

did you nominate any of these books to be on the list?

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message 18: by arianna (new)

May 12, 2009 07:17am

Nicole wrote: "I can't even believe that Stephanie Meyer books are on this list."

they are on everylist

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message 19: by Bradley (new)

May 12, 2009 08:13am

My book cover is blue. =)

Dreamsbane of Tamalor

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message 20: by Susan (new)

May 21, 2009 01:28pm

I chose books whose covers I liked... and would like to be able to comment/question other voters at to what their reason was for voting for certain books...

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message 21: by deleted member (new)

May 22, 2009 11:44am

Damn. People on this site have taste for SHIT. You people probably have Thomas Kinkade paintings on your walls.

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message 22: by Susan (new)

May 22, 2009 10:20pm

nope. I have Jim Warren, Achilleos, Luis Royo, Nene Thomas, Boris Vallejo Julie Bell, Christoph Vacher, Don Paresi, Susan Seddon Boulet, Joseph Michael Linsner, Amy Brown, John Jude Palencar and pictures of my family

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message 23: by Dave (new)

May 27, 2009 10:27pm

I saw this list and got excited because I have a background in design and I have certainly judged and/or bought books based on their covers...

That said, this list is pretty crappy.

I'm not declaring myself a "pro" or anything of the sort, but out of just the first 100 on this list, there were only 7 that I felt were good book covers.

Ah well.

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message 24: by Collin (new)

Jun 04, 2009 03:55pm

thank you for the invite too peruse thru the art works!

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message 25: by JSWolf (last edited Jun 22, 2009 01:38pm) (new)

Jun 22, 2009 01:35pm

I'm seeing books here that are voted on because of how popular they are. They don't belong because the covers are truly nothing special. A good example of this is Twilight. The cover is not outstanding. And it's really not a cover I'd expect o see on a list like this. There are other that also have so-so covers. #654 doesn't even have a cover showing.

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message 26: by Dana (new)

Jul 08, 2009 04:00pm

I love the cover to CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL - I've read the book as well and the cover does the book justice...and vice versa.

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message 27: by Ruby (new)

Jul 08, 2009 07:16pm

The artist who did the cover and other illustrations on "The Little Black Fish" read the story three times, we very carefully selected each scene according to the importance of that particular event and how we wanted to emphasize and communicate to the young readers. The hero of this book, the little black fish, is not even on the cover, because of the very special and dynamic way this book ends, how the final message is conveyed and how it will impact the readers...

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message 28: by deleted member (new)

Aug 10, 2009 09:18pm

David wrote: "Damn. People on this site have taste for SHIT. You people probably have Thomas Kinkade paintings on your walls. "

LOL! I tend to agree with you about Thomas Kincade.

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message 29: by JSWolf (new)

Aug 11, 2009 05:10am

This list needs to be scrapped and started over. A lot of the covers do not belong.

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message 30: by William Herschel (new)

Aug 14, 2009 09:07pm

did people just vote for their favorite or the most popular books? There are a lot better books out there in the way of cover art.

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message 31: by JSWolf (last edited Aug 15, 2009 03:26am) (new)

Aug 15, 2009 03:24am

buryuntime wrote: "did people just vote for their favorite or the most popular books? There are a lot better books out there in the way of cover art."

Yes, it does seem that people voted for their favorite books regardless of the cover art. That is why this list is bogus and needs to be scrapped.

The top ten books in this list do not have anything special in terms of cover art. If any staff is reading this, please scrap this list.

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message 32: by deleted member (new)

Aug 18, 2009 06:10pm

stephenie meyer has the simplest covers

shame on you fangirls

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message 33: by Kody (new)

Sep 19, 2009 09:24am

OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasm

You people disgust me.

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message 34: by JSWolf (new)

Sep 19, 2009 11:37am

Canary wrote: "Kode-dekka wrote: "OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasm

You people disgust me. "

AND YOU BORE ME! Get over it already!
"
I'm sorry you feel this list is boring. For those of us who actually want the list to be correct, most of the books on this list don't belong on this list. This list has nothing to do with cover art, but the popularity of the books on the list. Basically, it's a fan wank.

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message 35: by Kody (new)

Sep 19, 2009 12:10pm

JSWolf wrote: "Canary wrote: "Kode-dekka wrote: "OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasm

You people disgust me. "

AND YOU BORE ME! Get over it already!
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I'm sor..."

Finally someone who understands, unfortunately I believe it may be impossible to reason with a twitard.

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message 36: by Lizzie (new)

Sep 22, 2009 05:21pm

i admit i luv twilight and i voted for them. but the reason i actually started the series was because of the awesome covers!!!!!!!!

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message 37: by deleted member (new)

Sep 22, 2009 07:11pm

Lizzie wrote: "i admit i luv twilight and i voted for them. but the reason i actually started the series was because of the awesome covers!!!!!!!!"

I am totally impressed with the covers also! I actually bought Twilight due to the neverending quiz. I have a BA in Fine Art and I am influenced by book covers. My mother use to give me a very hard time about it. She liked to say I had silly decorator mentality, etc

Lizzie, we just have to ignore those who don't have the good taste we do! ;-)

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message 38: by JSWolf (new)

Sep 23, 2009 10:44am

Lizzie and Canary...

You both now you voted for the Twilight series because you liked the books and not the covers. The covers are nothing special. This list is an abomination overall and those who voted for the nothing special covers (like those of the Twilight series) have ruined what could have been a rather nice list.

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message 39: by Travis (new)

Sep 23, 2009 06:20pm

Could agree more JSWolf. It's one thing to like covers, but a book you like with covers you like doesn't make them the best covers. You don't even need to have read a book to vote for it in this quiz. Sorry, but the bland covers of Twilight being the best there is? I'm not buying it, just another example of a rabid fanbase destroying another list.

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message 40: by JSWolf (new)

Sep 25, 2009 06:41am

Travis, I agree 100%. What we need is a librarian to remove this list so it can be restarted and more librarians to police this list so the bland covers are not allowed to be voted on.

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message 41: by Alexander (new)

Sep 28, 2009 09:07pm

I think "Where the wild things are" has the best book cover hands down. I would encourage all who may have overlooked this classic to band together against travis's "abominations". If we act now the vampires need not yet win

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message 42: by JSWolf (new)

Sep 29, 2009 04:15am

The best idea is to delete this abomination of a list and start over and have a librarian monitor the list and any books that do not fit get removed before they get added.

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message 43: by Liane (new)

Oct 12, 2009 06:47pm

JSWolf wrote: "Lizzie and Canary...

You both now you voted for the Twilight series because you liked the books and not the covers. The covers are nothing special. This list is an abomination overall and those wh..."

Oh come on now. You know very well that this is all subjective. Who are you to say what I can and can't like? As it happens, I don't like the Twilight covers either, and I don't feel the need to bash those that do. Sure, some of the votes must be because of the popularity, so what. Big whoop I say.

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message 44: by Pete (new)

Oct 17, 2009 10:22am

Kody wrote: "JSWolf wrote: "Canary wrote: "Kode-dekka wrote: "OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasm

You people disgust me. "

AND YOU BORE ME! Get over it alr..."

What do you think of the cover of Fawcetta...I'm an artist and I have to say...that is good illustration art...not just photographs of people...

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message 45: by Pete (new)

Oct 17, 2009 10:25am

I like book covers that you know people worked hard to produce it. When I see covers that are more photogrpahy than art...that sucks...to me illustration art is the best...because you know it was drawn up...

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message 46: by JSWolf (new)

Oct 17, 2009 01:48pm

I do think photography on a covert can be good. But come on, the best covert art is not a pair of hands holding an apple.

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message 47: by Palindrome (new)

Oct 20, 2009 03:08am

I don't understand why so many people are obsessed by a series of books that is basically nothing more than "The Babysitters' Club" with added sparkly vampires. The covers are also very underwhelming.

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message 48: by Conrad (last edited Oct 25, 2009 05:37am) (new)

Oct 25, 2009 05:30am

I was going to start complaining about the awful picks here, but then I realized: it actually is a popularity contest! Should anyone really be surprised that some of the books most commonly read are those most commonly chosen?

Which isn't to say that the covers of the Twilight books aren't boring as hell. But you can't expect the Book of Kells to make this list, or old editions of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, or the new Penguin edition of The Three Musketeers, or even the famous cover to The Great Gatsby, because many, many, many more people have read Twilight (alas).

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message 49: by Adam (new)

Nov 22, 2009 07:40am

The Hunger Games, The Twilight series, The Giver (awesome beard), The City of EMber, The Last Olympian, Uglies, and Graceling have the best cover art that I have read.

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message 50: by JSWolf (new)

Nov 22, 2009 09:41am

Adam has no idea what good cover art is.

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