Books of the Rainbow
My friend Mike made this for me from my Goodreads shelves. I wrote a pointless application using Goodreads to order books by colour, it didn’t work too well with my 160 books, but yours is ace! You should rearrange your…
Scary Cover #1
I was looking something up when I got side-tracked on Wikipedia, you know how that happens, and I stumbled across this nightmare inducing cover for The Children of Men: So now I’m on a mission to find the scariest covers…
The Canons
I while ago I mentioned how the cover of Life of Pi was putting me off reading it. A few days later a Canongate catalogue dropped through the door and lo and behold, what has been revamped? Life of Pi…
Do Buy a Book for its Cover
Isn’t it gorgeous? If I could buy it as a print, I’d happily hang it on my wall. Whilst we may not be supposed to judge a book by its cover, it’s the main reason I have bought Zoo City….
Fence Friday: Blog Edition
There’a a bit of a trend over on Flickr to post photos of fences on Fridays, so I thought I’d dig out some covers featuring fences… Hrm, fences don’t seem to be as popular as headless people, trees or…
Spot The Difference
I’ve asked Snowbooks about this on Twitter as it could just be that the self published author picked the same stock image but I find it unlikely as they are SO similar. Even if they are both stock images, I…
Top Ten Books I Wish I Could Re-Design
This week’s Top Ten (hosted by The Broke and the Bookish) is all about covers that we’d like to re-design. I’m imagining that a lot of people will have some classics on their top tens this week as they have…
