26: A book with a text only cover

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

One of the best parts of looking for a new book is perusing through all those beautiful covers. Although graphics and images add excitement to the design, there's nothing wrong with a nice and simple text only cover.

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Suggestions:
Listopia: Text-Only Covers
Specky Boy:
30 Beautifully Colorful Typographic Book Cover Designs
Adobe Spark: 15 Fantastic Book Cover Designs that Make Type the Star
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Optional questions:
- What are you reading for this category?

[Tracy]

EitherWhite Teeth ( another one sitting on my shelf forever), or Exit West, which I was really looking forward to reading this year. Depends on my mood.

[Bryony]

Great choices Tracy. Zadie Smith is one of the authors I want to read for the first time in 2018 so I might read White Teeth too. I added Exit West to my TBR when it was shortlisted doe the Booker Prize so that’s also a possibility for me for this week.

I had been thinking about

for this week too.

[Sophie]

Ready Player One is a great choice Bryony!

I weirdly have lots of feminism books as options for this one:

[Shelly]

I am choosing among , , or . They are all so different from one another, so I am thinking I'll see how I feel next June.

[BooksByDano]

can someone tell me if this would be allowed

[Angie]

I think I'm doing one of these:

[Cheri]

Thanks for all the books on feminism with text-only covers, Sophie! I've read a couple but may try one of the others. Also considering:

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

My original list was almost all nonfiction, but after reading this thread, I added some fiction to the list! Not sure how I will choose between them...

Here's my list:

[Laura • lauralovestoread]

[Arielle]

Ready Player One


This prompt was a fun one to find :)

[Mely]

My copy of The Feast of All Saints by Anne Rice is text only cover. I'm excited to read her in historical fiction genre.

[Teresa]

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[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

BooksByDano wrote: "can someone tell me if this would be allowed "

It really just depends on how strict you want to be with your challenge. I suppose glass would be considered an object but since the text is really the primary thing and the focal point then I don't think most would take issue with you counting it.

[Jill]

[BooksByDano]

Laura wrote: "BooksByDano wrote: "can someone tell me if this would be allowed "

It really just depends on how strict you want to be with your challenge. I suppose glass ..."

Thanks I looked through the suggestion list and there were some that were similar so I'm going to allow it for myself :)

[Danielle]

I decided to choose The Christmas Box Collection: The Christmas Box / Timepiece / The Letter by Richard Paul Evans.

Several years ago, I received a beautiful handmade Christmas box from my grandpa with a copy of this book inside. Ever since, I have read the series each Christmas season and it's one of my favorite Christmas traditions! I didn't have time to finish the third book of the series, "The Letter," so this is the first book I'm working on as part of this challenge! I can't wait to finish it tonight!

[hannah]

This has been on my shelf for ages, so I'm excited that I've finally picked it up!

[Kim]

I'm going to try to plod through And_the_Band_Played_On by Randy Shilts for this week. Fingers crossed.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

[Jovana]

I just read Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates for this challenge:

I LOVED it. I'm a stickler with 5 stars but it earned it.

My list of challenge books is here.

[dalex]

I am reading the categories out of order so I have already completed this one. I used The Wanderers by Meg Howrey. The cover is about 98% text, which was close enough for me.

[Penny]

Would this one count?

[~*Kim*~]

I'll be going with this:

[Perri]

Finished: Tough read

[Elise]

I wouldn't use that one, Penny, as it has waves, clouds, sky, an interdimensional doorway...

I've found a few options for myself:

[Carol]

One of my favourite genres

Hugh Howey -

[Charity]

I read

[Anastasia]

The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor

a booked designed to encourage me to keep my new years resolution.

[Jess]

What are you reading for this category?


I read this to motivate me. I enjoyed it despite not liking non-fiction typically.

[Jess]

What are you reading for this category?
I read


I don't read self-improvement but I wanted to motivate myself. I found it very interesting.

Finished 1/24/18 4 of 52

[Kimberley]

I think I will be reading The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir

[Sheri]

What are you reading for this category?

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race - This was Emma Watson's pick for OSS book club for January-February. The cover's all text so it works out.

[Pam]

I’m reading Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee.

[Serendipity]

Exit West . Even though it could be classified as magical realism which isn't really my thing the realism was strong enough to offset the magical aspect for me.

[Sophie]

I'm reading .

[Ann]

I had my local librarian on the look out for a good book for me. She came up with three choices. The library has a new collection of Agatha Christies and The A.B.C. Murders: A Hercule Poirot Mystery just has words. Yay, sounds like fun.

[Lucy]

Does anyone know if Small Great Things would work for this?

[Patti]

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

[Evelyn]

- What are you reading for this category?

I choose this book because the movie is coming out in August.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Ended up going with Exit West for this prompt.



It was ok.. overhyped, I think.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

Lucy wrote: "Does anyone know if Small Great Things would work for this?"

I would count it since the stripes aren't really images or an identifiable material

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

I'm part of the gang

It was interesting but not sure it was worth the love its been getting

I find it interesting in this age of ebooks I never know what a cover looks like! I picked up a book at t a bookstore a few weeks ago thinking "this looks good." It was- I read it last year.

[Brittany]

I ended up reading it was a quick read and had a lot of good poems.

[Rachel]

Anyone else feeling irrationally picky about what exactly qualifies as text only? I actually picked Big Fat Manifesto at first, but my copy arrived from the library with this cover instead:

So it didn't quite seem appropriate anymore. I have quite a few other options on my list, but as I'm looking, I find myself really picky about what really "counts". For example, would something like count? It's technically just words, but each letter has a design.

[Laura, Celestial Sphere Mod]

I personally wouldn't count it since some of the designs are actual images, especially the owl.

[Anna]

Rachel wrote: "Anyone else feeling irrationally picky about what exactly qualifies as text only? I actually picked Big Fat Manifesto at first, but my copy arrived from the library with this cover i..."

I would count Big Fat Manifesto, because it does have an edition with words only.

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Pamela wrote: "I'm part of the gang

It was interesting but not sure it was worth the love its been getting

I find it interesting in this age of ebooks I never know what a cover lo..."

I'm so glad I'm not the only one on this.

[Angela]

What are you reading for this category?

Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast, by Oscar Wilde

[Janette]

Would the cover of Alternate Side be considered a text only cover?

[Jackie, Solstitial Mod]

Janette wrote: "Would the cover of Alternate Side be considered a text only cover?"

For me, the graphic map lines are more clearly the focus rather than just having the words, but as always, this is a very subjective prompt.