Book Covers: What are your BEST, WORST or INTERSTING picks?
Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:53 pm
I have a folder full of tons of them as many of us bibliophiles have been known to purchase books just because we loved the cover. Some are beautiful, unique or butt-ugly 
and many are very funny or interesting.
What are yours?
New books coming out all the time with great covers. 
Here is a list of some of the BEST book covers:
August, by Judith Rossner
The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Less than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
A Wolf at the Table, by Augusten Burroughs5c5
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark, cover art by Victor Reinganum 79ef96eb-428a-463b-a7c1-632139d8a5bc
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer, cover art by Jon Gray 745d0e4f-2b01-4661-81d1-b3e24b1b5883
The Journals of John Cheevers, by Susan Cheevers, cover art by R.D. Scudellari cbeaf32b-28ce-4107-a1d7-aefe01c4547d
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje, cover photograph by Cecil Beaton f37d4e71-60d1-4dd4-8809-9861bfc63c96
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, cover art by Sir John Tenniel187adf11-35d2-4d68-8caf-301f1e6f7571
and many are very funny or interesting.What are yours?
New books coming out all the time with great covers. Here is a list of some of the BEST book covers:
August, by Judith Rossner
The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
Winter's Tale, by Mark Helprin
All the Pretty Horses, by Cormac McCarthy
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami
Less than Zero, by Bret Easton Ellis
Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
A Wolf at the Table, by Augusten Burroughs5c5
The Secret History, by Donna Tartt
Catch-22, by Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye, by JD Salinger
On the Road, by Jack Kerouac
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, by Muriel Spark, cover art by Victor Reinganum 79ef96eb-428a-463b-a7c1-632139d8a5bc
Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer, cover art by Jon Gray 745d0e4f-2b01-4661-81d1-b3e24b1b5883
The Journals of John Cheevers, by Susan Cheevers, cover art by R.D. Scudellari cbeaf32b-28ce-4107-a1d7-aefe01c4547d
The English Patient, by Michael Ondaatje, cover photograph by Cecil Beaton f37d4e71-60d1-4dd4-8809-9861bfc63c96
Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, cover art by Sir John Tenniel187adf11-35d2-4d68-8caf-301f1e6f7571
