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The Eye of God (Sigma Force, #9)
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James Rollins (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 21,463 ratings
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Puños de Jaguar
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Okami Maresco (Goodreads Author)
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The Elephant's Journey
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Conjure Wife
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The Dragon's Promise (Six Crimson Cranes, #2)
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Elizabeth Lim (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 34,280 ratings
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Rumpole of the Bailey (Rumpole of the Bailey, #1)
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Though Not Dead (Kate Shugak, #18)
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Dana Stabenow (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 5,985 ratings
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Brothers in Arms (Vorkosigan Saga, #5)
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Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 19,178 ratings
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The House of Rust
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A Swiftly Tilting Planet (Time Quintet, #3)
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The English Patient
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L.A. Confidential (L.A. Quartet, #3)
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The Mermaids Singing (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #1)
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Heart Berries
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Terese Marie Mailhot (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 29,501 ratings
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Eminent Victorians
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Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth, #3)
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Go Forward With Faith: The Biography of Gordon B. Hinckley
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Parker Pyne Investigates
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Sweet Bird of Youth
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That Wasn’t in the Script
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4.09 avg rating — 181 ratings
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Magic for Liars
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Sarah Gailey (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 35,079 ratings
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Elric of Melniboné (The Elric Saga, #1)
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3.89 avg rating — 30,643 ratings
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Enchanted to Meet You (Witches of West Harbor #1)
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Meg Cabot (Goodreads Author)
3.29 avg rating — 12,431 ratings
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Death in Holy Orders (Adam Dalgliesh, #11)
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Strangers in Death (In Death, #26)
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J.D. Robb (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 29,400 ratings
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Agency (Jackpot #2)
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3.81 avg rating — 14,166 ratings
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Somewhere in France (The Great War #1)
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Jennifer Robson (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 13,795 ratings
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Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)
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Michael J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 76,005 ratings
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
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Cory Doctorow (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 14,069 ratings
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River of Gods (India 2047, #1)
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Who Goes There?
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Calculating God
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Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 10,227 ratings
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Anacaona: Golden Flower, Haiti, 1490
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Don't Hex and Drive (Stay a Spell, #2)
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Juliette Cross (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 18,167 ratings
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Smoke Bitten (Mercy Thompson, #12)
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Dragonswan (Were-Hunter, #0.5)
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Sherrilyn Kenyon (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 19,154 ratings
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A Strange Hymn (The Bargainer, #2)
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Laura Thalassa (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 94,998 ratings
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Valley of Silence (Circle Trilogy, #3)
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Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 31,827 ratings
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The Whispering Skull (Lockwood & Co., #2)
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 42,408 ratings
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To Kill A Warlock (Dulcie O'Neil, #1)
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H.P. Mallory (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 11,159 ratings
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Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family, #1)
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Melissa de la Cruz (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 21,876 ratings
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Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
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11:11
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The Woman in Blue (Ruth Galloway, #8)
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Elly Griffiths (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 22,044 ratings
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Red Clay, Running Waters
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Leslie K. Simmons (Goodreads Author)
4.48 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Amethyst: Princess of Gemworld
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Shannon Hale (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 876 ratings
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
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4.47 avg rating — 11,186,452 ratings
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History Is All You Left Me
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Adam Silvera (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 78,440 ratings
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Cruel Optimism
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Footnotes in Gaza
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4.35 avg rating — 6,923 ratings
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Shadow
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The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
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Alka Joshi (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 210,715 ratings
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The Iron King (The Accursed Kings, #1)
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The Princes of Ireland (The Dublin Saga, #1)
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Edward Rutherfurd (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 17,672 ratings
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The Only Woman in the Room
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Marie Benedict (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 105,169 ratings
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River God (Ancient Egypt, #1)
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Robopocalypse (Robopocalypse, #1)
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Daniel H. Wilson (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 41,018 ratings
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R is for Ricochet (Kinsey Millhone, #18)
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3.98 avg rating — 36,731 ratings
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Point of Retreat (Slammed, #2)
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Colleen Hoover (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 288,568 ratings
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The Belles (The Belles, #1)
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Dhonielle Clayton (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 25,161 ratings
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The Awakening / The Struggle (The Vampire Diaries, #1-2)
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3.68 avg rating — 93,953 ratings
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Come Home To Me (Second Chances, #1)
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Peggy L. Henderson (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 1,757 ratings
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Limited Wish (Impossible Times, #2)
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Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 7,920 ratings
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Demigods Academy: Year One (Demigods Academy #1)
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Elisa S. Amore (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 4,885 ratings
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Love Beyond Time (Morna's Legacy, #1)
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Bethany Claire (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 8,340 ratings
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The Little Shop of Found Things (Found Things, #1)
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Paula Brackston (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 21,243 ratings
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The Thresher
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Paul Christensen (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Red Palace
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4.13 avg rating — 16,120 ratings
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The Silent Companions
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Laura Purcell (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 41,220 ratings
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The Residents of James Hotel: A Ghost Story
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M.G. Mason (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The King's Buccaneer (Krondor's Sons, #2)
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Heart's Blood
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Juliet Marillier (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 17,643 ratings
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Arcanum Unbounded: The Cosmere Collection
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 62,418 ratings
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Season of Storms (The Witcher, #0.2)
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The Serpent's Secret (Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond, #1)
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The Swiss Family Robinson
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Sloth and other Delights (Mytho, #5)
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T.J. Nichols (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Snowed In for Christmas
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Sarah Morgan (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 16,031 ratings
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The Overstory
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The Battle of the Bookshops
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Poppy Alexander (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 1,332 ratings
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We Are Billion Year-Old Carbon: A Tribal-Love-Rock-Novel Set in The Sixties on an Outpost Planet Called Memphis
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Corey Mesler (Goodreads Author)
4.62 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things (Alvin Ho, #1)
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The Rosary Bride: A Cloistered Death (Grace Marsden #1)
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Pilot Pirx.
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Bluebirds Used to Croon in the Choir
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Joe Meno (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 344 ratings
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This Far By Faith: My Mother's Shadow / A Cracked Mirror / Honor Thy Heart
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Stacy Hawkins Adams (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat
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The Toss of a Lemon
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God Is Dead
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Ron Currie Jr. (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 3,291 ratings
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The Stranger She Married (Rogue Hearts, #1)
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Donna Hatch (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 3,145 ratings
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Do You Think What You Think You Think?
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Julian Baggini (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 658 ratings
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A Place for You and Me
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Fossil Hunter (Quintaglio Ascension, #2)
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Robert J. Sawyer (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 1,058 ratings
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How the Light Gets In
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Master
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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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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
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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!
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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.
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