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The Sorcerer's Apprentice
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Moth Smoke
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Iron's Prophecy (The Iron Fey, #4.5)
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Julie Kagawa (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 14,996 ratings
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The Pan Book of Horror Stories
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Herbert van Thal (Editor)
3.53 avg rating — 387 ratings
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Der Palast der verlorenen Träume (Gezeitensternsaga, #3)
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Jennifer Fallon (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 2,639 ratings
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The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm
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The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life
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Physiognomy
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Touching Fire (Touch, #2)
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Airicka Phoenix (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 446 ratings
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The Flowers of Evil, Vol. 4
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The Coffin Club (Vampire Kisses, #5)
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Common Sense
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Mulengro: A Romany Tale
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3.91 avg rating — 1,487 ratings
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How To Succeed At Stock Photography: A Designers Perspective
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Tara Jacobsen (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Rules of Passion (Greentree Sisters, #2)
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Sara Bennett (Goodreads Author)
3.62 avg rating — 266 ratings
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Bone Jack
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Sara Crowe (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 497 ratings
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Love Found Me
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Vanessa Richardson (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings
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이드 1 [Id - The Greatest Fusion Fantasy 1]
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The Seren Trilogy
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Elysian (Celestra, #8)
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Addison Moore (Goodreads Author)
4.22 avg rating — 2,782 ratings
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Crash Into Me
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Dom Wars: Round 1 & 2 (Dom Wars, #1-2)
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Lucian Bane (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 718 ratings
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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The Last American Vampire (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, #2)
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Seth Grahame-Smith (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 7,294 ratings
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The Declaration (The Declaration, #1)
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3.71 avg rating — 23,150 ratings
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Across a Star-Swept Sea (For Darkness Shows the Stars, #2)
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Diana Peterfreund (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 5,690 ratings
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Hotel World
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3.59 avg rating — 7,975 ratings
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The Time-Traveling Fashionista and Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile
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Bianca Turetsky (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 566 ratings
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Three (Legends of the Duskwalker, #1)
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Jay Posey (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 3,109 ratings
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Contest of Champions
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Asleep
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Krystal Wade (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 280 ratings
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Spiderwork
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L.K. Rigel (Goodreads Author)
3.49 avg rating — 256 ratings
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Bluescreen (Mirador, #1)
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Dan Wells (Goodreads Author)
3.70 avg rating — 2,836 ratings
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Emissary (Legends of the Realm, #1)
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Thomas Locke (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 965 ratings
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The Diamond Brooch (The Celtic Brooch, #7)
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Katherine Lowry Logan (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 2,251 ratings
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An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
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Lumberjanes: Up All Night (Lumberjanes, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 12,046 ratings
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The White Rose (The Lone City, #2)
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3.93 avg rating — 26,869 ratings
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Ashes (Seeds of America, #3)
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Laurie Halse Anderson (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 7,234 ratings
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Accidental Action Star (Accidental #3)
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Emily Evans (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,067 ratings
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Скоромовка не для вовка
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The Essex Serpent
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3.52 avg rating — 67,940 ratings
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The Survivor
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3.67 avg rating — 3,795 ratings
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Dragonwitch (Tales of Goldstone Wood, #5)
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Anne Elisabeth Stengl (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 772 ratings
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Whatever for Hire (Magical Romantic Comedies, #4)
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R.J. Blain (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
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Kłamca (Kłamca, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 3,868 ratings
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A Breath of Frost (The Lovegrove Legacy, #1)
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Alyxandra Harvey (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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3.91 avg rating — 25,750 ratings
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Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof
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3.56 avg rating — 383 ratings
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The Dice Man
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3.54 avg rating — 21,996 ratings
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Histoire d'O | Story of O (Story of O, #1)
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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I'm Fine and Neither Are You
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Camille Pagán (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 35,155 ratings
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Morning Glory (Drifters & Dreamers, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 4,008 ratings
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The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein
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Kiersten White (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 22,680 ratings
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The Lady in the Coppergate Tower (Steampunk Proper Romance #3)
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Nancy Campbell Allen (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 2,530 ratings
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Pebble in the Sky (Galactic Empire, #3)
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3.90 avg rating — 26,957 ratings
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Shadows in the Salon (Sugar Mountain, #3)
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Kirsten Fullmer (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 502 ratings
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Sharon Tate: Recollection
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4.58 avg rating — 361 ratings
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Life... Love... Kumbh...
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Aporva Kala (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 2,012 ratings
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Charmed (Fairy Tale Reform School, #2)
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Jen Calonita (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 6,016 ratings
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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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Station Eleven
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Emily St. John Mandel (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 599,211 ratings
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No One Thinks of Greenland
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Visions of Fate (The Venatrix Chronicles, #2)
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Sylvia Mercedes (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 1,686 ratings
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All This Time
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Mikki Daughtry (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 49,677 ratings
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An Ideal Husband
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Medea
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The Edge of the Crazies (Jules Clement, #1)
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Jamie Harrison (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 1,176 ratings
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Like Love (87th Precinct, #16)
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Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
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The Dead of Winter (John Madden, #3)
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Escaping Reality: An Incredible Story, of Love, Loss and Redemption
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 139,219 ratings
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Fingers of Fear
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Pope Joan
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4.10 avg rating — 74,230 ratings
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This Is Your Brain on Music
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Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture
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The Book of Air and Shadows
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3.42 avg rating — 10,490 ratings
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Richard Nixon: The Life
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John A. Farrell (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 3,443 ratings
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The Gladiator's Master
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Fae Sutherland (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 1,942 ratings
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Cookie Monsters
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Monarch
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Scrublands (Martin Scarsden, #1)
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The Last Magician (The Last Magician, #1)
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Lisa Maxwell (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 23,033 ratings
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Ptolemy's Gate (Bartimaeus, #3)
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Jonathan Stroud (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 89,624 ratings
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Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)
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The Guardians
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
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Hemlock Island
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Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 12,490 ratings
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Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1)
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Bellwether
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The Strain (The Strain #1)
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Contest
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Nice Girls Don't Live Forever (Jane Jameson, #3)
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Molly Harper (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 15,002 ratings
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Dark Celebration (Dark, #14)
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Christine Feehan (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 17,164 ratings
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The Things We Cannot Say
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Kelly Rimmer (Goodreads Author)
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Still Waters (Sandhamn Murders, #1)
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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!
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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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