Top Ten Book Covers I Wish I Could Redesign, or Don't Judge These Books by Their Covers, and the 2011 Indie Lit Awards

Top Ten Book Covers I Wish I Could Redesign

I could pull almost any book off my shelf and

shake my head when I see its cover design.

Lots of very sad book covers out there.

So here's a list of some of my favorite books with awful covers:

Civility by Stephen L. Carter

Not only a bad cover, but a boring title.

Who's gonna read this fantastic book

with a cover and a title like these?

Sandkings by George R. R. Martin

I really don't know why I picked up

this beautifully written science fiction novel

with a scary cover like this.

.

One Man's Meat by E. B. White

If you didn't recognize the author from Charlotte's Web

and know that he wrote brilliant essays (some of which

are in this book), you'd never choose this book.

 The World is Not Enough by Zoe Oldenbourg

Certainly doesn't look like the best historical fiction ever written,

does it?

No, it looks more like a history book about war.

Into That Good Night by Ron Rozelle

Such an amazing memoir that it was published

by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,

but they certainly didn't spend much on the cover.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

You'd never guess this is a fantastic and mysterious thriller from the cover.

Who wants to read a book with a statue on the cover?

Finally, the type of cover I hate most is...

Book Covers with the Author's Name Written Bigger than the Title!

(Does that bother anyone else,

or is it just me,

growing increasingly cranky with age?)

I'm going to stop here,

because I'm starting to rant a little

and that's never pretty.

So what did you choose?

What book covers do you wish you could redesign?

Before you move on,

let me share with you a wonderful blog event

that will be taking place at the end of this year,

the Indie Lit Awards.

This year in 2011, like last year,

I'll be serving on the panel to choose the best

nonfiction of the year.

I'm a little worried this year, as

they've pulled Memoir into a separate category.

So, please, please, start sending me

titles of deserving nonfiction (non-memoir only, please)

published in 2011

so that I can start reading!

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