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Book covers showing persons not facing the reader but turning their backs. So what is being expressed here: A cold shoulder? Deceit? Loneliness? Shame? Guilt? Sexual allure? Or the exact opposite -- innocence and a complete absence of suspicion?
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The Woman in the Photograph
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The Poe Shadow
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Beautiful Little Fools
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The Last Dickens
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Ruins (Partials Sequence, #3)
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The Wreck
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
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Skin Hunger
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Amber House (Amber House, #1)
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The Thirthy-Nine Steps & the Powerhouse
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Fates (Fates, #1)
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Drops of Gold (The Jonquil Brothers #2)
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The Butterfly Collector
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A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell, #1)
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Bluewing (The Frost Chronicles, #4)
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Jacqueline in Paris: A Novel
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| 922 |
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The Good Servant
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Blood Red Road (Dust Lands, #1)
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A Beautiful Rival
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Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy, #1)
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Rise Of The Alpha Huntress (A Tale Of Red Riding #1)
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The Broken Wave
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| 929 |
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Dark Star (Dark Star, #1)
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A Conspiracy of Alchemists (The Chronicle of Light and Shadow, #1)
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Christmas with the Queen
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Finding Monsieur Right
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Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy, #1)
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Clouds of Witness (Lord Peter Wimsey, #2)
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The Tutor's Daughter
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Parlor Games
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Maryka Biaggio (Goodreads Author)
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The Hanover Square Affair (Captain Lacey, #1)
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The Emperor's Conspiracy (Regency London, #1)
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The Kiss of a Stranger (The Jonquil Brothers, #0)
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Gone, Baby, Gone (Kenzie & Gennaro, #4)
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The Dark Unwinding (The Dark Unwinding, #1)
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Savage Winter (Seasons of Paleo, #1)
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Poison
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Different Seasons
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
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Les Infortunes de la Belle au bois dormant I : L'initiation
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Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London
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The Devil in Music (Julian Kestrel Mysteries, #4)
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Altered (Altered, #1)
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Jennifer Rush (Goodreads Author)
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Death Masks (The Dresden Files, #5)
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Jim Butcher (Goodreads Author)
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Nov 14, 2009 03:14PM
I wonder how many books have that Caspar David Friedrich painting on the cover (the one that's on Sorrows of Young Werther) - that could probably fill its own list.
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Yes, I noticed that too ...Thanks for going through all the lists I sent you lately, btw! I know it's been a lot ...
Don't forget Nicole Mones' Lost in Translation, an amazing read about art and love in China. All Mones' novels are great, but this one is her best!
I'm loving this list! I just went through all of my books and voted for everything that fit the category. I voted for over 50 books and only one of them is among the top 100. There are obviously a lot of books like this! And I think Kim Harrison's Hollows series accounts for at least a quarter of them. ;P
I noted this trend in book covers a little while ago. There's more being released every day. I blame it on The Alienist. All books want to be The Alienist. I am happy to learn that others have noticed this phenomenon as well.
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