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!