Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by
The Broke and the Bookish. This week's topic is a Rewind, and I decided to do my favourite book covers.
1. The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly. For some reason I'm really big on covers that made almost entirely out of the title, like
No One Is Here Except All Of Us or
In The Woods. It's also very cool how little things from the book appear on the cover. It's all very fitting for this adult fairy tale.
2. Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer. Again, a cover where most of it is made of the title. I love all of Jonathan Safran's covers, especially
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, since I like the text and similarity to the cover for
Everything Is Illuminated. I also like how the cover was inspired by a character in the book who cannot speak and writes 'yes' and 'no' on his hands to communicate.
3. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. I love this cover to death. I love how it shows the horse from the carousel and the city in the background and I just love the colours as well. A cover that will never look dated.
4. Looking for Alaska by John Green. John just
posted about this cover the other day and how there wasn't originally supposed to be a candle, just the smoke. I always kind of assumed it was supposed to be from one of the candles Alaska's always playing with in the book, but cigarette smoke makes sense. I also love
this cover of
Looking For Alaska, which I really want to own.
5. It's Kind of a Funny Story. I kept going to Chapters to buy this book and only found the movie cover, and since I hate all movie covers I waited until I found this edition. Aside from being very pretty, the cover references the mind maps Craig makes in the book.
6. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart. I love Carson Ellis so it's no surprise that I love the cover for
The Mysterious Benedict Society. I also adore her cover for
Wildwood, although her illustrations were the best thing about the book. The rest of the books in the
Mysterious Benedict series are illustrated by Diana Sudyka, and although I prefer her Reynie I just love Carson Ellis' Cover.
7. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The first cover on this list that I don't own (and need.) This is the Penguin Deluxe Edition and looks as if it were sewn. I own a copy of
Emma in this edition which is also very beautiful (
x). You can see them all
here.
8. Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. I want this book so badly. I love these Puffin Classics since they're so beautiful and simplistic. The
Peter Pan one is probably my favourite, but they're all so beautiful. I also like the cloth Puffin Classics for adults.
9. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. I love these paperback Puffin Classics, two of which I just bought (
x). While the last thing I need is another copy of
Alice, I love the style and illustrations of this cover, and how it updated the original while still sticking to the basic idea. You can see some more of them
here.
10. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling. I really like the US cover for
GoF since it shows Harry in the way I picture him in the earlier books. I really just love how bright and magical this cover looks. I also love the back of the US
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince because Ron and Hermione look kind of like like I picture them. The Hermione on the cover of the UK
Deathly Hallows is exactly how I picture Hermione.
11. The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind by Meg Medina. I'm going to do one extra for good luck. This is the only book on the list I haven't read, but I just adore this cover. I have a thing for silhouette covers, like the one for
The Whole Truth. The colours and design are so beautiful, and it's enough to make me want to check out this book.
