22. A book with a faceless person on the cover

[Emily, Conterminous Mod]

Another cover scavenger hunt! This time, you are digging through your TBR to find a book with a "faceless person" on the cover. There's a lot of ways you can go with it... It could be a person in silhouette, someone viewed from behind, or with their face obscured, or it could be an illustration without facial features.

Some suggestions from the voting rounds:


ATY Listopia: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1...

How are you deciding to approach this prompt? What are you reading for it?

[Nadine in NY]

This one is really fun to hunt for!! To make things a little more challenging for myself, I disqualified books like A Bad Day for Mercy & Vladimir where the person's head is cut off in the cover art.

My top contender right now is Lemon

[Nancy]

[Amy (Other Amy)]

I really enjoyed Lemon this year! I still need to get that review written.

I'm leaning toward The Ninth Life of Louis Drax because this version has both a profile with no face and a faceless silhouette, so that is great, and I really want to read it:


BUT it's not quite what I really envisioned for this prompt, which would be more like one of these:

[Jaime]

Any excuse to read another Fredrik Backman:

[D.L.]

This one:



The faces are marked out.

[Misty]

I have so many options on my TBR for this one. It's going to be hard to choose:



The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Liar by K. L. Slater
The Man on the Balcony by Maj Stowall and Per Wahloo
The Silent Ones by K. L. Slater
The Lost Boy by Camilla Lackberg
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Phasma by Delilah S. Dawson
The Ice Princess by Camilla Lackberg
The Lost Girl by Sangu Mandanna
Servants of the Storm by Delilah S. Dawson
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Good Mother by Sue Miller

[Gem ~ZeroShelfControl~]

I'm likely going for one of the following:

(might also use this for the science prompt if not used here)

[Marie]

I almost went for this one, because it's a perfect fit:



But then I realised that this would also work:



and has been on my TBR a lot longer, so it's my winner.

I'd recommend:

[Kathy]

I'm probably going to use one of these:


I recommend:

[Maryam]

I probable will read Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century for this prompt

[Bea]

I will choose from one of these:

[Dana]

My choices:

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
I Know You by Annabel Kantaria
When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O'Neal
Daughter of the Siren Queen by Tricia Levenseller
Nu, stai, in seara asta cinez cu tata! by Marion Ruggieri
Bărbatul care se credea Riemann by Stefania Piazzino
Cititorul din peşteră by Rui Zink
Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce
O viață și trei zile by Pierre Lemaitre
Potter's Boy by Tony Mitton
Nightbooks by J.A. White
Grădina cu Fluturi by Dot Hutchison
We Are Inevitable by Gayle Forman
Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
Fallen by Lauren Kate
Impecabil by Sara Shepard
Spune-mi tr3i lucruri despre tine by Julie Buxbaum
Intr-o padure intunecata by Ruth Ware
Umbra by Neil Jordan
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Unde pădurea întâlnește stelele by Glendy Vanderah
Belladonna by Adalyn Grace
Suflete damnate by Yrsa Sigurdardottir
The Queen's Rising by Rebecca Ross
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

[Kelly]

These are all books I own that are on my TBR list

Farenheight 451
We Were Liars
Black and Blue
Life of Pi
The Girl with All the Gifts
The Summer Girls
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
The Girls Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Everything I Never Told You
Pachinko
A Wrinkle in Time
One of Us is Lying

[Maple]

Hangman


I'm picking Hangman, by Jack Heath, for this prompt.
A 14-year-old boy vanishes on his way home from school. His frantic mother receives a disturbing ransom call. It's only hours before the deadline, and the police have no leads.

Enter Timothy Blake, codename Hangman. Blake is a genius, known for solving impossible cases. He's also a sociopath - the FBI's last resort.<?b>

[Joy D]

For this prompt, I read:

The Wolves of Winter by Tyrell Johnson - 4* - My Review

[Onlyplaying]

I used HenchHench, which I absolutely LOVED! I sometimes have a hard time with villain-focused stories because they don't always do a good job of balancing making them sympathetic but also bad guys, but this one does it perfectly.

[GailW]

I read The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo, translated from Korean.


A female killer-for-hire who has reached the invisible age of 65, is sure she is being forced into retirement and harassed by a much younger male colleague. You cannot skim this book (I tried and failed). But it is well worth seeing the character development and understanding the ending if you don't. A bit violent, in case that's a trigger.

[Severina]

I read The End of Men by Christina Sweeney-Baird, which was quite thought-provoking.

[Anna]

I read Knife by Jo Nesbø for this prompt. The cover of the Swedish edition which I read looks like this:

[Evelyn]

I read

[Velvet]

I chose by Margaret Atwood. I recently reread The Handmaid's Tale and thought it was about time that I read the follow-up.

[JessicaMHR]

I read Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine for this prompt. It was okay...not the greatest.

[Marie (UK)]

Uncontrollable Women: Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries rubbish but fits the prompt

[Andrea]

I read Scythe by Neal Shusterman.

[Hannah]

I went with The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks for this one. The copy I have has this cover:



This is the second book in the Culture series, but is supposed to be a really good entry point into the series. I haven't actually read the first one, but I have read one of the later books (Surface Detail). I can see why people say this would be a good one to start with, as it gives a lot of information about the world and is a much more linear, straightforward story than Surface Detail was.

For some reason this prompt brought out some persnicketyness in me. I didn't want to use a cover where a person's head was out of frame and ideally I think I would have wanted to use a cover where the character was facing you, but had been drawn without a face. But the shadowy figure on the cover of The Player of Games is good enough for me!

[Anne]

I am using a book I already have. It has a small photo of 2 men entering a copper mine tunnel with their backs to the viewer so only a small part of the side of face is in view.

Hungry Hill by Daphne du Maurier.

[Samantha]

I had so many choices for this one but ended up going with What Have We Done. It felt a little unrealistic but I didn't care because it was a fun read.

[Jill]

How are you deciding to approach this prompt?
I chose and read a book where the person has his back to me Shadow of the Serpent by David Ashton

[Sherri]

I read

[Joy D]

I recently read another that fits this prompt:

[LeahS]

I read .

What an excellent book. The setting is apparently Eastern Ukraine in 2015, but apart from the languages used, there is nothing to place the landscape of the book. In the middle of war, Pasha, a teacher and non-combatant, attempts to rescue his nephew from the children's home of the title. It is set over three days of wandering over a war-torn city - it could be any war, any time, just the desolation of war brilliantly evoked.

[Anastasia]

I plan some of my prompts, depending on how difficult it is for me to fill them, and others I use serendipity to fill. This is one of those that I left up to serendipity.
I have been reading the Orphan X series for awhile and always read the new book when it comes out. The latest installment has a faceless person on the cover.
The Last Orphan

[[deleted user]]

Burnt Shadows. 5 stars

[Tracy]

I read Scythe by Neal Shusterman, giving it 5 stars. You might consider this cover a KIS option, as the face is in silhouette, but has no features details in the artwork.

This book had a great imagined future world. The author seemed to think through all the ramifications of his alteration of our current reality. Even though this is a YA book, it felt very thought provoking. I've been impressed by everything I've read by this author so far, especially this book ad Challenger Deep.

[Rebecca]

For this I read City of Thieves by David Benioff.

[Ana O. ⭐]

The Old Guard, vol. 1: Opening Fire 3 stars.

[Pamela, Arciform Mod]

So many choices!

I read the upcoming Alice Hoffman-- so good! The Invisible Hour

[LeahS]

I also read .

I recommend this book, which begins with the exploration of the island and moves through the Cold War onto scientific investigation and climate change. Full of interesting (and worrying) facts.

[Dubhease]

I read which has a cut off wedding topper.

[Book Concierge]

I read

Finding Nouf – Zoë Ferraris – 4****
This was a wonderful debut psychological thriller. I particularly appreciated the setting in Saudi Arabia, and the use of a female lab technician who has some decidedly “modern” sensibilities. While the central murder bears investigation, the push-pull partnership between Katya and devoutly Muslim desert guide, Nayir, is what really keeps the book interesting.
LINK to my full review

[NancyJ]

LeahS wrote: "I also read .

I recommend this book, which begins with the exploration of..."

Thanks LeahS. This sounds like something I might like. It fits another challenge for me too. I would never have seen the person on this cover!
(With the increasingly wild effects of global warming this year, and all the evidence, I hope people will finally stop calling climate change a hoax.)

[NancyJ]

Pamela wrote: "So many choices!

I read the upcoming Alice Hoffman-- so good! The Invisible Hour
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I’m looking forward to this one

[Denise]

I read The Collected Regrets Of Clover by Mikki Brammer. I thought it was pretty good. Clover is a 'death doula" so the book has a positive approach to death.

[Stacey]

I just finished Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl. The author brings together the unlikely themes of life and nature and grief and loss in a most joyous way. In these days of darkness and despair, I find this book offers hope and comfort to the human spirit. It's one you want to reread again and again.