Book cover art
6 May 2014
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Gorgeous book covers, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
This week over at the Broke and the Bookish the topic is :
‘Top Ten Book Covers I’d Frame As Pieces of Art’
I admit that I’m a sucker for cover art – but, in my defence I always maintain that it’s the first thing that catches your eye so it’s important! The main difficulty I had this week was restricting myself to 10.
1. Range of Ghosts by Elizabeth Bear – these covers are fantastic. The colours are gorgeous and I’ve only read the first, so far, but I really enjoyed the book as well!
2. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson – I love the US covers for these – plus the books themselves are gorgeous and, well, the story – this is Sanderson so expect excellence!
3. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss. I do really like this cover – okay, it could be influenced a little by the fact that I love the books but…
4. The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. I prefer this cover to the one I actually own but it’s the content that counts ater all. I like looking at this one though – my love of this cover could be influenced by my love of Venice as well as the story – the setting is amazing – not Venice but very similar.
5. Stormdancer by Jay Kristof – this cover is really gorgeously striking.
6. The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman.
7. Miserere by Teresa Frohock – this is a great cover – I love the expressions on their faces = particularly the brunette and the poor guy stuck in the middle!
8. A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan – the covers for these books are brilliant and I just love them! Plus. Dragons!
9. Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence – not read this one yet looking forward to it very much – and I love both covers for this so you can make up your own mind between US and UK.
10. Blackbird by Chuck Wendig – I love these books and the covers are ace! So, we’ll have all three!
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Oooh yes I love the Natural History Of… books too. The Dragon cover is better than the Unicorn one too! 😮
Hahah! The dragons are beating the unicorns!!!! Those Marie Brennan books covers are absolutely gorgeous though. 😀
Lynn
The History of Dragons has been popping up in quite a few lists, it’s beautiful. I love the Neil Gaiman as well….
It’s a good book too – really enjoyable and I’m looking forward to the next. A really lovely original idea for a story.
Gaiman – what can I say, I’m a bit, just a tad, slightly biased about everything to do with him! The Ocean book was lovely – I keep thinking to myself, can he pull it off – and then he does!
Lynn 😀
Cool, I have the Gaiman in my 746, I’ve only read American Gods before so I’m looking forward to it…
And strangely, American Gods I’m still waiting to read! It’s on my classics list though.
Lynn 😀
Oh I love 5, 6, 8, and 10. Great choices!
Good choices – no.5 is simply stunning isn’t it!
Lynn 😀
A lot of great choices. I also enjoy looking at old covers and seeing how the artwork has changed over the years.
I had quite a few that I wanted to choose for this – a book that’s not out yet called Sidekick which looks great and I love the cover and Stephen King’s Joyland – I love the cover for that book.
Lynn 😀
I love the cover for Range of Ghosts my favourite colour is purple so I was always going to be drawn to this I haven’t read but I would like too. The copy I read of The Lies of Locke Lamora was quite a cool purple and silver outline of a Venice looking place. I quite liked it but I like the one you have here too!
All three books from the Elizabeth Bear books have gorgeous covers, all swirly colours – they would make beautiful posters. My Lies of Locke Lamora was the purple and silver – what I really like about it is it’s simply a picture of St Mark’s in Venice – which I thought was great when I realised. I do prefer the one with the guy sat on his perch though!
Lynn 😀
Lies of Locke Lomora is a rare one that I am in love with both the US and the UK cover. The UK one is more framable though.
The one with the purple and silver cover? They’re both lovely – I prefer the US one for this, but only just! What I love about the purple cover is that it’s an actual picture of St Mark’s square – I don’t know why but I was so pleased when I realised that!
Lynn 😀
Fantasy book covers are usually winners in every sense–definitely can’t go wrong with any of them! I was rather tempted to put Gaiman’s Ocean atEotL on my list this week as well. It’s pretty stunning stuff. 😀
Cheers,
joey via. thoughts and afterthoughts
I have to agree – I think fantasy covers manage to top the market in terms of covers (for me anyway, but you could say I’m biased I suppose!).
Lynn 😀
Most of these are new to me – they’re great! The Chuck Wendig ones would look so striking lined up in a row next to each other. Lovely.
I love those covers and they really are the reason that I was first drawn to the books thereby in one swoop proving just how important covers are.
Lynn 😀
Great covers! Stormdancer, I have never seen that before and I absolutely love that cover. I have never heard of the Blackbirds series, but it has such gorgeous covers, Nice picks 🙂 Here’s my TTT.
I used the US version for Stormdancer – I don’t really like the UK one and think this one is so lovely!
Lynn 😀
These are great *covers*…but I think I’d find them rather dark to be looming down at me from my walls!
Particularly the Chuck Wendig ones!! I do love those covers though, they’re so striking.
Lynn 😀
I like the ones at 10 looks the best. Very stylish.
My favourite covers for books are the Vintage editions of Haruki Murakami’s works.
I must check them out – I think somebody else may have posted them as well.
Lynn 😀
Great choices! I like the blue swirls/hair on the cover of Range of Ghosts, it makes it look very mystical and painterly. The anatomical illustration of a dragon in A Natural History of Dragons is gorgeous, as well. And who would not love those Blackbirds covers! I look at them once in a while in a bookshop just to bask in their awesomeness for a while.
I had Stormdancer featured once in a gorgeous book cover list. Also, I have that copy of The Lies of Locke Lamora!
The Range of Ghosts books all have lovely covers. The colours on the front make me think of paint being mixed – don’t ask me to explain that! A Natural History of Dragons – again, the covers are so good – I love that when you open up the book fully the diagram continues onto the back of the cover. The Blackbird covers are so original – I’ve seen a couple since that look like they take something from that style but those three are gorgeous – I love all the attention to detail when you look really closely at the hair – little snippets from out of the book. So clever.
Lynn 😀
Beautiful covers! I lke the Blue cover of Prince of Fools, is that the US cover?
Yes, they’re both good covers – the blue is US.
Lynn 😀