Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the fantastic Bionic Bookworm. This week’s topic:
OCTOBER 17 – Top 5 favourite book covers
Cheating a bit, but here we go:
Human Acts by Han Kang: This is one of my all-time favorite cover designs; I love the simple yet eerie imagery and I love the dissonance of the muted yellow.
The William Morrow covers of Agatha Christie‘s novels. A few faves: And Then There Were None, Murder on the Orient Express, Endless Night, Sparkling Cyanide. I’m obsessed with this series of covers and I’m slowly working on collecting them all…. I may go broke in the process but I’m having fun with it so far.
Running by Cara Hoffman. This was a very strange little novel that I didn’t completely love, but I think the cover design is stunning – I love the Greek statues and the slightly off-tone primary colors.
The Vegetarian by Han Kang: I genuinely tried to narrow it down and choose only one Han Kang cover, but I love both of them so much. I love how delightfully creepy this one is, and I love the bold red of the background.
The Kopp Sisters series by Amy Stewart: Girl Waits With Gun, Lady Cop Makes Trouble, Miss Kopp’s Midnight Confessions. I love the old fashioned newspaper cover design and the use of bold colors. And Constance Kopp’s no-nonsense expression in all of these images is pretty great.
What can I say – I’m pretty predictable. Bold colors + some cool art design + clean font are the way to my heart.
What are some of your favorite book covers?
pace, amore, libri 
Oooh the Agatha Christie covers are so pretty!
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Right??? Whenever I see one in a store that I don’t already own I’m so weak.
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SHINY AND ABSTRACT BOOK COVERS:
I especially love when the style is used for books that deliberately hearken to ~classics. These designs look a lot like some of the special redesigns done for classics, often with the B&N classic editions which use a lot of foil.
The Hazel Wood: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/9e/05/51/9e0551f60d4c907df02cd7ba2322e59f.jpg
That Inevitable Victorian Thing: http://www.slj.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/YA-HS-Johnston-InevitableVictorianThing.jpg
Also I love the book covers for both the Grisha and Six of Crows books. Leigh’s covers are exactly what I think YA fantasy covers SHOULD be. Stylish, sets the tone and shows something of the world, but NO FREAKING PEOPLE ON IT and no horribly awkward photoshopping.
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YES I love that type of design, I feel like I see that a lot more often with British editions of literary fiction, so I love when American covers do that thing. Simple and sleek and classy is the WAY TO GO.
Agreed COMPLETELY re: Leigh, she’s the YA fantasy cover queen for sure. I feel like YA covers are either stunning artsy masterpieces or the most horribly garish things you’ve ever seen and there is no in between.
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The cover for Running is beautiful!! I don’t know what it is about the colours but my eye is drawn to it! And the Agatha Christie ones are amazing too! Great list! Thanks again for participating 🙂
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I don’t know what it is about it that I love so much either!!! It was a Netgalley read and I wish I’d liked it more so I could have an excuse to buy the physical copy…
And thanks again for organizing it, I love this topic!
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That edition of Human Acts is gorgeous! Those are the same Christie covers I’m slowly collecting as well. In fact, I had ordered one online and it arrived yesterday and THEY SENT THE WRONG EDITION. I was silently furious about it.
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OH NO THAT IS TRAGIC. Are you going to return it??? So far I’ve mostly been buying my collection in bookstores, which is going to bankrupt me but. Oh well.
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They’ll be getting a passive aggressive email soon I imagine, haha.
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These are fantastic. I am currently reading Murder on the Orient Express and the cover really is great!
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Oooh how are you liking it?
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It is really good so far. I can see why she is well loved!
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I only read her for the first time earlier this year, but I’m already obsessed. Her books are so addicting.
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The Agatha Christie covers are pretty, but I actually prefer the cover of And There Were None based on the recent BBC adaptation; I loved the show and the characters and I think that version looks better 😛
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I like that one a lot too! I loved the show as well, and I don’t usually love movie/TV covers on books but that one looks quite nice.
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Love the Agatha Christie covers!
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Me too!!!
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LOVE those Agatha Christie covers, they’re half the reason I want to read one of her books lol. And I love those Kopp Sister covers, they’ve always stood out to me whenever I see them.
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DANG I should have brought you some Christies!!! Though to be fair I don’t actually own a copy of And Then There Were None which is the one I usually recommend that people start with. But if you ever want to borrow any others HIT ME UP my current stash is pretty impressive hahahah
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