Task 13: Read a book with a cover you don't like

[Stina]

I went with by Carrie Vaughn. I thought the book was great and the cover design itself is okay, but I just really dislike that color.

[A]

Pale Horse, Pale Rider The version I have is a terrible fake marble on fake marble cover, I don't know why they did this.

[Bonnie G.]

So much to work with here: https://lithub.com/50-very-bad-book-c...

[Cato]

I'm currently reading Brave New World. The book is good but I've got this edition with a super boring cover.

[Cory]

I wasn't at all sure what to do with this one, but my husband has been pushing me to read Choice Words: How Our Language Affects Children's Learning and it was *perfect*. It honestly reminds me of 1990s Microsoft Word Art. Why is the subtitle oriented vertically like that?

[Diane]

Mistress of the Art of Death
A friend recommended this book to me in January. I downloaded the audio from my library, and procrastinated reading it - because of the cover! This week, I finally started listening and realized it is historical fiction about the beginnings of forensic medicine based in Cambridge, England in the Middle Ages. It has a mystery, a strong female protagonist and is well researched. The cover and title had made me think it would be a dark fantasy. So glad I finally looked past its cover.

[superawesomekt]

Here are a few I've already read this year with terrible covers:

The Tao of Pooh - no words
In a Holidaze - these authors are a big deal so this cover surprised me by how boring it is.
- This one is probably the WORST, but I enjoyed the book:
Brat Farrar

[Ashley]

I'm reading because I HATE that cover.

[Heather]

I read . Didn't like the cover, didn't like the book. Oh well!

[Bobby]

I am reading by Robert K. Massie. One of my biggest pet peeves is a cover of a biography or memoir that instead of a picture of the subject of the book has a picture of an actor pretending to be that person in a movie or TV show. The person on the cover of this biography is not Russian Tsar Peter the Great—it's Austrian-Swiss actor Maximilian Schell playing Peter the Great in a TV miniseries.

Some similar books to this:

, a memoir by Che Guevara with a cover showing the actor Gael García Bernal playing Che Guevara in a movie.

, a memoir by Jean-Dominique Bauby featuring two actors on the cover playing the author and another real person from the book.