Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
Hey and welcome to my suggestion for Top Ten Tuesday! Obviously past me had ideas about this, but looking at the books on my shelves I’m much more drawn to autumn and winter vibes. The UK is currently sweltering, so what better time to remind us how hot we are. I hope it is cooler wherever you are!
Bad Things Happen Here by Rebecca Barrow
Getting murdered on the beach is a kinda common summer activity in YA mysteries…and this beach looks HOT.
How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) by Christina Fernandez
Cities are my least favourite place to be in summer, they are like ovens. At the moment London is about 5°C hotter than where I live. You can practically see the heat rising off the city on this cover. Save us from heatstroke, superheroes!
Suddenly that Summer by Lizzie Byron
Ah that’s more like it, a lovely summer sunset viewed from a balcony with an ice cold drink. Although knowing how much death happens at the seaside in books, I suspect that cat may have just shoved the protagonist over the edge…
Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
These colours are just HOT HOT HOT. I’m sweating just looking at it.
The Seawomen by Chloe Timms
That’s more like it, a lovely tropical island with miles of beaches. The water is so inviting, shame about the religious zealots.
A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo
The colours on this are almost autumnal however the coast reminds me of the coastline near me. Although please don’t park your car that close to cliff edges, many of them are at risk of crumbling into the sea…
One of the Girls by Lucy Clarke
This could so be the cover for a summer holiday brochure. Minus the blood… We really need to do something about all these summer time murders…maybe the heat is driving everyone mad.
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
This might be an alien planet but it is also what the UK looks like when a Saharan sand storm blows through.
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Why do light leak effects remind us of summer? I’m pretty sure some of my childhood photos from winter have the tell tale orange of accidentally exposed film, yet cover designers love to splash them over photos to give a summer feel. I guess it works.
Ithaca by Claire North
What better time to laze around in your toga than summer? Penelope looks like she’s being baked by a giant golden sun.
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The Seawoman has such a pretty cover!
I hope the UK cools down soon.
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-book-covers-that-feel-like-summer/
There’s a lovely cool breeze now, thankfully!
Great picks! All of these give off perfectly summer vibes and make me want to pick them up while I’m sitting at the beach 😍 I’ve never seen or hear of The Seawoman before but what an incredible cover! Will definitely be checking that one out further.
I love all the warm, beachy colors! How to Date a Superhero (And Not Die Trying) looks especially cute!
Oh man, the orange glow of accidentally exposed film is sure a flashback. Young me did that way more often than I care to admit.
How to Date a Superhero looks like my kind of book, but I hadn’t heard of it before this. Off to add it to the TBR! I love the vibes on the covers you picked, they’re all nice and summery.
My TTT: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2022/07/12/top-ten-tuesday-book-covers-with-summer-themes/
I think I heard about How to Date a Superhero from last week’s TTT!
Oh, that’s perfect!
Some of these covers make me yearn to be sitting by the pool, enjoying them.
I live in London and I’m currently melting! I really hope we start to get cooler weather sometime soon. I’m so not a summer person, I don’t find being wet and sticky with heat appealing!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/top-ten-tuesday-376/
Urgh, poor you! It’s cooled off a bit here today but I keep seeing all those weather warnings for the weekend.
Yeah not looking forward to it. I am very much an autumn/winter person and not really a spring/summer one!
Well if I had to choose summer looking book covers I’d have to go for those showing clouds since that’s what we have here in Wales all of today. Stuffy temperatures with a few rain showers.
It doesn’t seem like the cloudy days are any cooler at the moment. I’m sure if I did this post ten year’s ago I would have picked out rainy covers, but it’s starting to get very hot in these parts.
I hope the sunshine lasts if only for all the businesses that do good trade when the sun shines.
Thanks for this week’s theme! It’s so funny–drafting my TTT for your prompt got me so excited about summer, but now I’m in it with this horrendous UK heatwave, I just wish it was October already! So I feel your pain, haha. Great list!
I hear you, the amount of time I spend moaning about it being cold and wet and then we get all this hit and I’m “noooo take it back!”.
😂😅 100%! Nothing like a vile heatwave to make you miss the rain.
Your cover for Malibu Rising is so different from the one I had. Mine was more watery and turquoise
I find it quite interesting the differences between UK and US cover design…sometimes I think the US covers look more serious.
These are great covers, and I love how you explained your thoughts on these books and summer.
Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/summer-y-titles-of-10-books/
These are incredibly summery looking covers! And I have to admit, that after just finishing Honey and Spice, it’s an amazing book. I’m also pretty partial to Malibu Rising, which just oozes summer vibes.
That’s good to know, I enjoyed Bolu’s short story collection and I’m really fussy about short stories, so I’m looking forward to trying her longer fiction.
Thanks for commenting on my post. Sorry it has taken me a little bit to get back to you. I’ve been exhausted from moving and unpacking. I’m sure you understand.
Fantastic cover choices. I especially like A Scatter of Light. I love the colors. 😀 Fun topic. Thanks for suggesting it.
I hope you’re settling in OK!
A scatter of light makes me think of spring though. I really like the colors.
It’s damm hot where I am but at least it’s not so bad.
Have a lovely day.