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Rather Be the Devil (Inspector Rebus, #21)
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Ian Rankin (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 14,653 ratings
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S is for Silence (Kinsey Millhone, #19)
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The Novice (Summoner, #1)
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Taran Matharu (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 35,912 ratings
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Murder is Binding (Booktown Mystery #1)
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Lorna Barrett (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 14,149 ratings
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Dark Corners (Rachel Krall, #2)
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Megan Goldin (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 31,594 ratings
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V is for Vengeance (Kinsey Millhone, #22)
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A Perfect Pairing
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Sheryl Lister (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 216 ratings
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Mortal Arts (Lady Darby Mystery, #2)
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Anna Lee Huber (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 12,761 ratings
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Malice (Detective Kaga, #1)
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The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare (Cat Who..., #7)
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The Paris Architect
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Dogs of War (Dogs of War, #1)
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Adrian Tchaikovsky (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 15,148 ratings
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Snuff (Discworld, #39; City Watch, #8)
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This Perfect Day
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The Last Cuentista
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Donna Barba Higuera (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 27,322 ratings
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Star Wars: Catalyst - A Rogue One Novel
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Witch King (The Rising World, #1)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 24,842 ratings
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How to Stay Invisible
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Maggie C. Rudd (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 990 ratings
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You Are Not Alone
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Greer Hendricks (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 90,807 ratings
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Rise Against (The Foundling, #4)
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Hailey Edwards (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 1,407 ratings
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The Wife Stalker
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Liv Constantine (Goodreads Author)
3.72 avg rating — 52,980 ratings
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The Girls Are All So Nice Here
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Laurie Elizabeth Flynn (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 22,169 ratings
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Savage Urges (The Phoenix Pack, #5)
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Suzanne Wright (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 16,864 ratings
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Edge of Dawn (Midnight Breed, #11)
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Lara Adrian (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 13,080 ratings
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Bear Meets Girl (Pride, #7)
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Kiss of Steel (London Steampunk, #1)
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Bec McMaster (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 13,456 ratings
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Alpha (Shifters, #6)
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Rachel Vincent (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 15,175 ratings
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Born in Fire (Fire and Ice Trilogy, #1; Demon Days, Vampire Nights, #1)
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K.F. Breene (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 36,111 ratings
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The Majesties
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The Return of the Antelope
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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David Grann (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 433,692 ratings
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Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan
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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
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Gray Mountain
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 107,597 ratings
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The Lady Elizabeth
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3.99 avg rating — 28,488 ratings
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So Not Meant To Be (Cane Brothers, #2)
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Meghan Quinn (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 129,294 ratings
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Icebreaker (UCMH, #1)
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Hannah Grace (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,228,004 ratings
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How to Kill Your Family
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3.52 avg rating — 175,859 ratings
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
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Ken Liu (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 37,562 ratings
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Paper Girls, Volume 1
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3.88 avg rating — 109,676 ratings
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Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin, #3)
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4.09 avg rating — 25,996 ratings
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The Last Viking (Viking II, #1)
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Sandra Hill (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 2,519 ratings
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Parallel (Parallel, #1)
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Elizabeth O'Roark (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 18,784 ratings
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Rarity
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D.A. Roach (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Noble House (Asian Saga, #5)
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4.27 avg rating — 42,251 ratings
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Krampus' Bad Fur Day
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Michelle Franklin (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Seventh Son (Tales of Alvin Maker, #1)
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3.88 avg rating — 37,138 ratings
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Into the Land of the Unicorns (The Unicorn Chronicles, #1)
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The Color Purple
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Mystery Magnet (The Last Picks, #1)
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Gregory Ashe (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 917 ratings
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The Rain Heron
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Strangers in Paradise, Volume 9: My Child Of Rage
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4.39 avg rating — 476 ratings
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Julie and Julia: 365 Days, 524 Recipes, 1 Tiny Apartment Kitchen
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3.71 avg rating — 160,594 ratings
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Earthian, Volume 4
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3.86 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Millicent Min, Girl Genius (The Millicent Min Trilogy #1)
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Lisa Yee (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 4,433 ratings
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Through Violet Eyes (Violet Eyes, #1)
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Stephen Woodworth (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 2,448 ratings
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نجم الربيع
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ليلى صايا (Author)
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Coming Home
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Melanie Rose (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 722 ratings
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Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
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Jon Stewart (Editor/Contributor)
3.90 avg rating — 27,356 ratings
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Meridon (The Wideacre Trilogy, #3)
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Philippa Gregory (Goodreads Author)
3.77 avg rating — 12,414 ratings
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Tree of Life (Tree of Life, #1)
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Elita Daniels (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Exposure
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Therese Anne Fowler (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 952 ratings
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Night's Master (Flat Earth, #1)
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The Stone Child
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Dan Poblocki (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 3,159 ratings
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A Drunken Dream & Other Stories
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The Sword in the Stone
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First Light (A.D. Chronicles, #1)
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Bodie Thoene (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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True (Elixir, #3)
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Rising Storm (Warriors, #4)
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Sin City
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Der unsterbliche Prinz (Gezeitensternsaga, #1)
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Jennifer Fallon (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 4,407 ratings
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The Kindness of Strangers
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Katrina Kittle (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 14,098 ratings
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Job: A Comedy of Justice
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Price of Freedom
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House of Secrets (House of Secrets, #1)
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Anomaly (Anomaly, #1)
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Krista McGee (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 2,642 ratings
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Games of Fire
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Airicka Phoenix (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 1,461 ratings
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A Moment Comes
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Soulless: The Manga, Vol. 3 (The Parasol Protectorate Manga, #3)
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Gail Carriger (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 2,358 ratings
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Fear (Gone, #5)
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Michael Grant (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 53,799 ratings
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Silver
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Ellen Tebbits
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The Wizard's Ward (Umbria, #1)
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Deborah Hale (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 1,057 ratings
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Black Heart (Curse Workers, #3)
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Holly Black (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 19,366 ratings
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The Entrepreneur Blueprint: How To Fix Your Focus & Mindset To Develop A Successful Game Plan
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Tara Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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All Night with a Rogue (Lords of Vice, #1)
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Alexandra Hawkins (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 2,712 ratings
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Red Riding Hood
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Sarah Blakley-Cartwright (Goodreads Author)
3.47 avg rating — 20,837 ratings
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Rise Up Out of Your Situation! Walk Into Your Destiny
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The Light of the Oracle
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Kiss Of Life
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Sacrifice of Love (The Grey Wolves, #7)
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Quinn Loftis (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 8,927 ratings
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This is Not a Test (This is Not a Test, #1)
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Courtney Summers (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 15,134 ratings
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Harbinger
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Sara Wilson Etienne (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 1,891 ratings
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Impulse (Submerged Sun, #2)
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Vanessa Garden (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 607 ratings
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A Life Observed: A Spiritual Biography of C. S. Lewis
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The Walls Around Us
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Nova Ren Suma (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 10,647 ratings
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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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