Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Sign in with Facebook
What books do you think have the best cover art?
Please, don't remove duplicates.
This list is about the COVERS, not the books.
Please, don't remove duplicates.
This list is about the COVERS, not the books.
Score
A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
| 4183 |
|
The Romance Reader's Guide to Life
by
Sharon Pywell (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 847 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Six Wakes
by
Mur Lafferty (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 20,187 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1)
by
Charles Stross (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 27,045 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Childhood’s End
by
4.12 avg rating — 171,415 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Live and Let Die (James Bond, #2)
by
3.63 avg rating — 35,927 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
The Cellist of Sarajevo
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 43,679 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Blood & Spirits (The Coming Storm, #1)
by
Dennis Sharpe (Goodreads Author)
3.57 avg rating — 2,105 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Explosion in Paris
by
3.60 avg rating — 2,340 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Angels in America
by
4.30 avg rating — 23,163 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
The Con Man (87th Precinct, #4)
by
3.91 avg rating — 3,864 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
I, Alex Cross (Alex Cross, #16)
by
James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 48,499 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Caleb's Crossing
by
Geraldine Brooks (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 71,421 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Missing, Presumed (DS Manon Bradshaw, #1)
by
3.50 avg rating — 31,136 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Prince of Silk and Thorns
by
Cherry Dare (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 281 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Set in Darkness (Inspector Rebus, #11)
by
Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 12,676 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Devil Bones (Temperance Brennan, #11)
by
Kathy Reichs (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 30,789 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
The Risk (Mindf*ck, #1)
by
4.25 avg rating — 352,288 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Flame in the Mist (Flame in the Mist, #1)
by
Renée Ahdieh (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 48,173 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Turtle in Paradise
by
Jennifer L. Holm (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 20,250 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
Everything You Want Me to Be
by
Mindy Mejia (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 23,689 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
The Child (Kate Waters, #2)
by
Fiona Barton (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 57,012 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
All the Beautiful Lies
by
Peter Swanson (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 23,731 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
The Beach House
by
James Patterson (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 92,458 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4183 |
|
What Angels Fear (Sebastian St. Cyr, #1)
by
C.S. Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 18,305 ratings
score: 179,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Wolf's Head, Wolf's Heart (Firekeeper Saga, #2)
by
Jane Lindskold (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 4,305 ratings
score: 178,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Paths Not Taken (Nightside, #5)
by
4.05 avg rating — 11,174 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Belle's Song
by
3.21 avg rating — 379 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Parabolist
by
3.37 avg rating — 79 ratings
score: 178,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Stress of Her Regard
by
3.80 avg rating — 4,358 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Sleeping With the Wolf (After the Crash, #1)
by
Maddy Barone (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 1,950 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Vampire Princess Rising (The Winters Family Saga, #2)
by
Jami Brumfield (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 262 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Unquiet
by
Jeannine Garsee (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 2,117 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
by
Steven Erikson (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 134,103 ratings
score: 178,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
by
Karen Russell (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 13,083 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Portrait of a Lady
by
3.80 avg rating — 84,524 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Midnight Line (Jack Reacher, #22)
by
Lee Child (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 88,152 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Say You're Sorry (Morgan Dane, #1)
by
Melinda Leigh (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 102,785 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Willoughbys
by
Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 16,522 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Portnoy’s Complaint
by
3.71 avg rating — 72,900 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2)
by
Neal Shusterman (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 227,343 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Dream a Little Dream (The Silver Trilogy, #1)
by
4.12 avg rating — 53,379 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Titus Andronicus
by
3.67 avg rating — 33,834 ratings
score: 178,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Hit (Will Robie, #2)
by
David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 78,053 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The King Who Disappeared
by
Hank Quense (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Killer Instinct (The Naturals, #2)
by
Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Goodreads Author)
4.26 avg rating — 200,479 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Three Bags Full (Sheep Detective Story, #1)
by
3.63 avg rating — 17,087 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Shakespeare's Trollop (Lily Bard, #4)
by
Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 15,612 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
A Darkness at Sethanon (The Riftwar Saga, #4)
by
4.20 avg rating — 70,924 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Wild Fire (John Corey, #4)
by
4.07 avg rating — 30,695 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Imaginary Friend
by
3.55 avg rating — 59,470 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Alex (Camille Verhœven, #2)
by
4.09 avg rating — 19,418 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Harvest
by
Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 27,097 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Felix Ever After
by
4.22 avg rating — 66,119 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Roanoke Girls
by
Amy Engel (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 34,634 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Night Soldiers (Night Soldiers, #1)
by
3.94 avg rating — 12,493 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
The Accidental Empress (Sisi, #1)
by
Allison Pataki (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 21,740 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Broken Skin (Logan McRae, #3)
by
4.17 avg rating — 10,380 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4225 |
|
Three Bedrooms, One Corpse (Aurora Teagarden, #3)
by
Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 21,694 ratings
score: 178,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Migration: New and Selected Poems
by
4.36 avg rating — 696 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Just Meg
by
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Keeper of Secrets
by
Anjuelle Floyd (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 138 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
The Riftwar Saga (The Riftwar Saga, #1-4)
by
4.42 avg rating — 12,648 ratings
score: 177,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Mr. Darcy's Diary (Jane Austen Heroes, #1)
by
Amanda Grange (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 21,920 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Fire Bringer
by
David Clement-Davies (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 14,068 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Nightwalker (Dark Days, #1)
by
Jocelynn Drake (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 9,567 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Meridian (Fenestra, #1)
by
Amber Kizer (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 9,167 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Journey to the River Sea
by
4.20 avg rating — 17,334 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Mine Till Midnight (The Hathaways, #1)
by
Lisa Kleypas (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 80,258 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Illusionarium
by
3.36 avg rating — 2,820 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Curse of the Fae Queen
by
4.05 avg rating — 287 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Alas, Babylon
by
4.09 avg rating — 48,131 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Babylon’s Ashes (The Expanse, #6)
by
James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 95,799 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Act of Treason (Mitch Rapp, #9)
by
4.32 avg rating — 53,846 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by
Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 4,480,671 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
The Winner
by
David Baldacci (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 54,190 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
High Five (Stephanie Plum, #5)
by
Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 135,388 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Winter of the World (The Century Trilogy #2)
by
Ken Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 174,804 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Book of Night (Book of Night, #1)
by
Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 83,762 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Rose Daughter
by
3.79 avg rating — 21,660 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Where They Found Her
by
Kimberly McCreight (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 40,299 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
The Battle of Corrin (Legends of Dune, #3)
by
3.81 avg rating — 15,505 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Hunger (Gone, #2)
by
Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 90,839 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Messenger (The Giver, #3)
by
Lois Lowry (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 147,159 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
The King's Curse (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #7)
by
Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 31,940 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
The Preacher (Patrik Hedström, #2)
by
Camilla Läckberg (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 47,291 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
I Must Betray You
by
Ruta Sepetys (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 94,582 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4259 |
|
Wool (Wool, #1)
by
Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 106,997 ratings
score: 177,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
Cat With Really Big Head One Other Story That Isn't As Good
by
3.86 avg rating — 659 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
The Seance
by
John Harwood (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 7,736 ratings
score: 176,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
The Spanish Bow
by
Andromeda Romano-Lax (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 1,070 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
The Absent Body (4)
by
4.34 avg rating — 70 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
Wall and Piece
by
3.85 avg rating — 234,068 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
A General Theory of Love
by
4.11 avg rating — 4,865 ratings
score: 176,
and
3 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
Silver (Bandia, #1)
by
Talia Vance (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 3,266 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
Walt Disney's Mother Goose (A Little Golden Book)
by
Al Dempster (Adapted By)
4.32 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
The Time-Traveling Fashionista on Board the Titanic
by
Bianca Turetsky (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 2,562 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
Girl in Translation
by
Jean Kwok (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 58,401 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
The Curse Catcher
by
Laura Thalassa (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 945 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
Immortal Fire (Red Winter Trilogy, #3)
by
Annette Marie (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 9,048 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
| 4288 |
|
Running Wild
by
3.56 avg rating — 3,428 ratings
score: 176,
and
2 people voted
|
Error rating book. Refresh and try again.
Rate this book
Clear rating
|
12,388 books ·
7,099 voters ·
list created June 26th, 2008
by deleted user.
Tags:
covers
Comments Showing 1-50 of 122 (122 new)
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
reply
|
flag
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
I voted for the covers I chose because I think they suited and enhanced the book inside. AND that they were attractive artistically.
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.
I can't even believe that Stephanie Meyer books are on this list.
love your picks {despite what mark says!}. except for stephenie meyer's books. i'm not a fan of the cover art on those.
who keeps voting for stephenie meyer and her boring stock-photo covers?
I'm adding many of the covers produced by my publisher, Echelon Press, including
,
, and
.
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?
Nicole wrote: "I can't even believe that Stephanie Meyer books are on this list."they are on everylist
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...
Damn. People on this site have taste for SHIT. You people probably have Thomas Kinkade paintings on your walls.
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
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.
thank you for the invite too peruse thru the art works!
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.
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.
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...
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.
LOL! I tend to agree with you about Thomas Kincade.
This list needs to be scrapped and started over. A lot of the covers do not belong.
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.
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.
stephenie meyer has the simplest covers
shame on you fangirls
shame on you fangirls
OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasmYou people disgust me.
Canary wrote: "Kode-dekka wrote: "OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasmYou 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.
JSWolf wrote: "Canary wrote: "Kode-dekka wrote: "OMG!!! a pair of hands holding an apple, that's gotta be the best cover ever. /sarcasmYou people disgust me. "
AND YOU BORE ME! Get over it already!
"
I'm sor..."
Finally someone who understands, unfortunately I believe it may be impossible to reason with a twitard.
i admit i luv twilight and i voted for them. but the reason i actually started the series was because of the awesome covers!!!!!!!!
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! ;-)
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! ;-)
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. /sarcasmYou 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...
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...
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.
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.
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).
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.
Adam has no idea what good cover art is.
that he has read, hes still young dude. he doesnt read books about drugs and high school afairs. hes only 14 man. i love the books he posted but i think hunger games and catching fire really catch my attention.
Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
