Welcome to this week's edition of Top Ten Tuesday which is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. This
week the theme is
Typographic Book Covers (Book covers with a design that is all or mostly all words. You can also choose to do books with nice typography if that’s easier!) (Submitted by Mareli @ Elza Reads)
It is interesting when you look at trends in covers. If we look at historical romance as an example. Not too long ago most covers were clinch covers with women in gorgeous dresses but these days it isn't as standard. Now, there are font covers or cartoonny in amongst the big dresses.
I haven't focussed on just one genre, but here is my Top Ten Tuesday post featuring typographic book covers.
One for the Money by Janet Evanovich - The reality is that you could have picked any one of the Stephanie Plum books as they are pretty much all typographic covers!
Love Stories by Trent Dalton - Given that this is a selection of very short stories, this cover makes sense as there isn't one single story to tell
Someone I Used to Know by Paige Toon - Plenty of rom-coms have wordy covers!
The Year the Maps Changed by Danielle Binks - This cover is very eye catching.
The Great Passage by Shion Miura - This book is all about the words, inside and out!
The People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry - All of Emily Henry's covers have been wordy so far.
Red White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston - Such a fun cover and book!
Normal People by Sally Rooney - Quite a few of the covers for this book have bold typography on the cover.
Don't You Forget About Me - Another author who has a lot of these style of covers.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes - This cover does not convey the emotional nature of this book at all!
Do you like typographic covers?
Great list of gorgeous typographic covers. Red White and Royal Blue also made it to my top 10 this week.
ReplyDeleteHere is my TTT: https://herseriallife.com/top-10-books-with-typographic-covers/
Have a great week :)
That was one of the first books I thought of!
DeleteI love your list and how you explain your thoughts behind the choices.
ReplyDeletePam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/ten-book-titles-starting-with-the-letter-a/
There was only one that I struggled to come up with the thinking for and that was Normal People. Thanks for stopping by Pam.
DeleteA good looking list. I also like comparing US and UK covers (and getting cover envy!!).
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Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
My post:
https://budgettalesblog.wordpress.com/2022/09/27/top-ten-tuesday-typographic-book-covers/
It is always interesting to see the different covers in the different markets Emily.
DeleteI also have Me Before You. I actually never noticed that Jojo Moyes use so many covers with only typography! I only saw it today!
ReplyDeleteYes, covers do change with the times for sure.
Happy TTT!
Elza Reads
There are some authors who only have these kinds of covers! It was a good suggestion for a topic
DeleteThe Year the Maps Changed really caught my eye as well
ReplyDeleteIt was a good read too Blake!
DeleteGreat choices! I especially like the ones for THE YEAR THE MAPS CHANGED and THE GREAT PASSAGE.
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
The Great Passage is especially apt because it is about collating a dictionary Susan
DeleteI definitely agree, the cover of Me Before You tells you nothing about the book. I think that's one of my issues with largely typographical book covers, it can be much harder to tell what the book's about.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2022/09/27/top-ten-tuesday-387/
Same with cartoon covers for me. When historical romance started moving in that direction it was harder to tell that's what the book was, depending on the cartoon.
DeleteI look at the colors and the type and the way they grab me.
ReplyDeleteWhen I worked in publishing, authors on their way up (or their agents) would demand not just money but a "big book look" and sometimes we would argue and argue about what that actually was. You would bring covers you liked into art meetings and complete a form that described the book for the copywriters and the art staff but we were usually better at saying what we did not like, which drove the art staff crazy. I remember being very surprised that the outside artists we paid quite well actually needed cover models at all - weren't they supposed to have imagination?
ReplyDeleteFrom what hear the cover decision can be quite difficult. It is also very important given that for authors that are new to individual readers that might be the first thing to attract readers. That old saying never judge a book by it's cover is all well and good but we all do it. Especially for authors we haven't read before..
DeleteThanks for stopping by Cindy!
ReplyDeleteFantastic list! The Great Passage cover is stunning
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