August - Judge A Book By Its Cover

[Ashleigh]

JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
August 1st - August 31st, 2023

This month we are celebrating the beautiful cover art that comes with all the books we read. Do you like books with photos on them? Hand-drawn covers? Digital art?

For this challenge, you will choose a cover style (or multiple styles) and read books with that cover style. For example, you might choose covers with digital drawings, so you might read:



OR books with just text on the cover:



To sign up, let the challenge leader know how many books you want to read.

Thank you to Kristina for creating and leading this challenge

[Kristina]

Hello everyone!

Show off all your great book artwork this month! Whether it's digital art, hand-drawn, minimalist, photographical, typographical... there's so many beautiful book covers to enjoy!

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To sign up for this challenge, please post a message that includes your reading goal.

When posting your progress please include your original (sign-up) message number plus your current progress.

Example: Update to message #16: 3/5

If you decide to drop out of the challenge, please don't delete your original sign-up post. Just post a message to let me know. Thank you!

Updates will be made for this challenge on Sundays.

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Amateur Artists [4]
Brianna - Message 28 - 0/5
Jill - Message 11 - 0/3
Shari - Message 16 - 0/8
Suzanne - Message 27 - 0/5

Intermediate Artists [1]
Lilli Gilliam - Message 4 - 4/5

Expert Artists [16]
🎉 Beth - Message 10 - 12/10
🎉 Carmen - Message 12 - 15/10
🎉 Chalmation - Message 14 - 6/6
🎉 Debra Diggs - Message 24 - 7/7
🎉 Frankie - Message 7 - 7/6
🎉 Hina - Messasge 17 - 3/3
🎉 Jenn - Message 34 - 16/15
🎉 Janine - Message 18 - 6/6
🎉 Kendra - Message 5 - 8/8
🎉 Kristina - Message 3 - 19/15
🎉 Lea - Message 22 - 5/5
🎉 Lina - Message 13 - 6/3
🎉 Rachael - Message 8 - 5/5
🎉 Sarah - Message 6 - 11/11
🎉 Sheila - Message 15 - 15/10
🎉 TerryJane - Message 23 - 24/12

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21 Signed Up
Books Read: 169/157 (107%)

Updated through message 73 on 9/2

[Kristina]

JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
August 1 - August 31, 2023
Progress: 19/15

Hand-Drawn/Illustrated Covers


✅ 1. Babel: An Arcane History by R.F. Kuang
✅ 2. Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
✅ 3. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✅ 4. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✅ 5. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
✅ 6. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
✅ 7. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
✅ 8. Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
✅ 9. Any Way the Wind Blows by Rainbow Rowell
✅ 10. Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing, but Enough by Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre
✅ 11. Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
✅ 12. The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
✅ 13. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
✅ 14. River of Teeth by Sarah Gailey
✅ 15. Taste of Marrow by Sarah Gailey

Typography Covers


✅ 1. Hell Bent by Leigh Bardugo
✅ 2. My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
✅ 3. Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
✅ 4. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

[Lilli Gilliam]

White Covers

4/5
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
Gingerbread Cookie Murder by Joanne FlukePurple PupBreadcrumbs

[Kendra]

oooh, I love a good cover-art challenge!
I'll aim for 8 total: 8 /8


Photographs: 3 /3

✅ 1. Nature Meets Nurture: Science-Based Strategies for Raising Resilient Kids
✅ 2. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
✅ 3. Braiding Sweetgrass

illustration by hand: 2 /2

✅ 1. My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1
✅ 2. The Girl and the Ghost

Bright colors + simple background: 3 /3

✅ 1. The Bandit Queens
✅ 2. Her Body and Other Parties: Stories
✅ 3. Becoming Muhammad Ali

[Sarah]

Sign me up for 11 books

11/11-COMPLETED

Silhouette Covers- 6/6
✅1) (21/8/23)
✅2) (21/8/23)
✅3) (22/8/23)
✅4) (22/8/23)
✅5) (5/8/23)
✅6) (23/8/23)

Portrait Covers- 5/5
✅7) (27/8/23)
✅8) (16/8/23)
✅9) (28/8/23)
✅10) (7/8/23)
✅11) (19/8/23)

[Frankie]

JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
August 1st - August 31st, 2023

7/6 Completed. Finished

No people on Cover

1.Hurricane After Dark-Marie Force 8/05/23
2.Her Deadly Touch-Lisa Regan 8/10/23
3.The First Death-Kendra Elliot 8/11/23
4.Her Deadly Homecoming-Tony Urban 8/16/23
5.You Can Die-Rebecca Zanetti 8/17/23
6.Whisper in the Night-D.K. Hood 8/23/23
7.The Devil's Playground-Charly Cox 8/24/23

[Rachael]

Please sign me up for 5 books.

Who's That Girl? (Book covers featuring portraits of females):


COMPLETED: 5/5

1. The Quarantine Princess Diaries finished 7 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐ with review
2. Geek Girl finished 9 August, ⭐⭐⭐ with review
3. Slated finished 15 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Fractured finished 19 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐
5. Shattered finished 24 August, ⭐⭐⭐⭐

[Kristina]

Welcome everyone! I love getting to see all the cool covers you're picking out. I've updated and added everyone up to message 8!

[Beth]

Signing up for 10, but I haven’t decided on a style yet.

I decided on covers with faces on the cover (photo or drawing). 12/10

[Jill]

I’m in 3.
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[Carmen]

Hola!
Count me in, please 😘
PROGRESS: 15/10

Black and White Photos with a Touch of Color


Monocolor Background with some Drawings


Caricatures

[Lina]

Signing up for 3, thanks!

⚖️ Judge a Book By Its Cover - Monthly Challenge ⚖️
Duration: August 1 - August 31, 2023

⚖️ Progress: 6/3 ⚖️

Illustrated or Drawn by Hand
1. An Heir Comes to Rise (finished Aug 01)
2. Neverwhere (finished Aug 07)
3. Gideon the Ninth (finished Aug 12)
4. The Woman Destroyed (finished Aug 20)
5. Path of the Berserker (finished Aug 20)
6. Deaf Republic (finished Aug 29)



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[Chalmation]

I'm in for 6.

6/6
Challenge Complete

Hand Drawn





Photograph

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC signing up for 10, although I’m not sure I’m clear on criteria.

[Shari]

I'm going to join for 8. Will decide the criteria later.

JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
August 1st - August 31st, 2023

This month we are celebrating the beautiful cover art that comes with all the books we read. Do you like books with photos on them? Hand-drawn covers? Digital art?

For this challenge, you will choose a cover style (or multiple styles) and read books with that cover style.

Progress: 8 / 8

[Hina]

JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
August 1st - August 31st, 2023
Completed: 3/3

Photographic Covers:

4/8 5/8 6/8

[Janine]

Please sign me up for 3. The style I'm choosing is digital drawings of people.

Covers with digital drawings of people:


Text-based covers:


6/6 books

[Lilli Gilliam]

for my cover design can I do a certain color cover? like i read books with only blue covers?

[Kristina]

Lilli Gilliam wrote: "for my cover design can I do a certain color cover? like i read books with only blue covers?"

Yes, doing a certain color is definitely fine!

[Kristina]

Sheila wrote: "Sheila from NC signing up for 10, although I’m not sure I’m clear on criteria."

Hi, Sheila! The criteria is pretty flexible - the focus for this challenge is to pick books by their cover art.

You could start with some big general categories and pick a "type" of cover art (for example, choosing books that have graphic designs or typography for cover art) or narrow it down with very specific categories (for example, choosing books with character profiles or books that all have animals on the cover).

You can pick any type/category of book cover art you like or read from a couple of different categories. (So far everyone who has signed up has picked some great categories, if you want to use them for an example!)

Does that make sense? Let me know if you're still confused!

[Lea]

I would like to participate if it's not too late :)

I would like to read at least to books with a sword (or something like that) on it:


I would like to read at least 3 books with some plants/greens/flowers on it:

I have more books with that covers, but can't find them right now.

So in total I would read at least 5 books to participate this challenge! I'm really excited :)

[TerryJane, Challenges]

🖼️ JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER - Monthly Challenge
Duration: August 1 - August 31, 2023
Progress: 24/12

Photography


Drawings & Paintings (including Digital)

[Debra Diggs]

Judge A Book By It's Cover

7/7 -- Completed

Bodies
✔ 1. Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
✔ 2. The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
✔ 3. A Party Down at the Square by Ralph Ellison
✔ 4. The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
. . .

Body Parts
✔ 1. The Library of the Unwritten by A.J. Hackwith
✔ 2. The One I Left Behind by Jennifer McMahon
✔ 3. Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
. .

[Kristina]

Hello, everyone! I've updated to include all of our new sign-ups, so we should be accurate through message 24.

[Lilli Gilliam]

msg 4
1/5

[Suzanne]

2023 Reading Challenge
August - Judge A Book By Its Cover
Duration: August 1st - August 31st, 2023

Progress: 5 out of 5

This month we are celebrating the beautiful cover art that comes with all the books we read. Do you like books with photos on them? Hand-drawn covers? Digital art?

Colorful Book Covers:

1. Devil's Daughter by Lisa Kleypas - ***** - 8/7/2023 - 272 Pages
2. The Choice of Magic by Michael G. Manning - ***** - 8/15/2023 - 626 Pages
3. The Source by J.D. Horn - ***** - 8/23/2023 - 352 Pages.
4. A Man and His Cat, Vol. 1 by Umi Sakurai - **** - 8/26/2023 - 148 Pages
5. Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life by Marie Kondō - **** - 8/18/2023 - 244 Pages

[Brianna]

Sign me up for 5 blue covers!

2023 Reading Challenge
August - Judge A Book By Its Cover
Duration: August 1st - August 31st, 2023

Progress: 0 out of 5

[Lilli Gilliam]

msg 4

2/5

[Lea]

Update message 22: 1/5 (one with a weapon on it)

[Debra Diggs]

Update message 24: 2/7

[Hina]

Update message #17

Completed 3/3

[Rachael]

Updated message 8: 1/5 (found another book that fit so increased my goal)

[Jenn]

I would like to sign up for 15. I'm going for covers that have flowers on them 🙂🌼🌷⚘🌺

[Lea]

Update message 22:
Another one with a sword on it: 2/5

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC posting 5/10. Animal books aren’t my go to, but somehow I have several on my tbr list. Therefore, My covers have animals on them.

1. Open and Shut, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
2. Song of the Lion, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
3. Down the Rabbit Hole, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
4. If Wishes were Horses- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
5. Cloud and Wallfish-, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

[Chalmation]

Updated message #14

1/6

[Kendra]

Update to msg no. 5

Progress so far: 3 /8

[Rachael]

Updated message 8: 2/5

[Chalmation]

Updated message #14

2/6

[Lea]

update message 22: finished a book with roses on the cover, 3/5

[Frankie]

Update for Message #7

3/6 Completed

[Chalmation]

Updated message #14

3/6

[Debra Diggs]

Update to message #24: 4/7

[Jenn]

Update to message no.34- 5/15

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[Lilli Gilliam]

msg 4
4/5

[Rachael]

Updated message 8: 3/5

[Sheila]

Sheila from NC, message 15, updating 5 more animal covers for total 10/10.

6. (Elephants)The Mistress of Bhatia House, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
7. A Siege of Bitterns, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...
8. The way of the Bear- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
9. The Sacred Bridge- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
10. Terciel and Elinor- https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...

[Chalmation]

Updated message #14

4/6

[Carmen]

Update to message #12

PROGRESS: 10/10

Thanks, Kristina! 🤗