Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by The Broke and The Bookish once a week where book bloggers can network and find out what everybody else is reading. It is super fun, so if you haven’t participated yet you might be missing out! Of all the TTTs, this is probably one of my absolute favorites because I LOVE beautiful book covers. Most on my list are adult novels, but I could easily do a YA list with nothing but girls in pretty dresses. Incidentally, the insides of these choices were, for the most part, just as awesome as the outsides! :)
Top Ten Framable Book Covers!
I read the entire series based off of this cover alone, and you know what – I loved it! Luis Royo is by far my favorite artist and I will read anything he does the cover art for!
This is the cover for the fourth book of one of my all time favorite series. Not a lot of people know that Dawn Cook is an alias of Kim Harrison- I didn’t catch on myself until after about five years of wondering “Is Dawn Cook ever going to come out with something new?” Each book got better and better, and so did the covers (the originals, anyway. The new ones they are marketing this series with are painfully ugly).
Yup, I totally picked this up based solely on the beautiful cover. I am glad I did, too, because it was a breath of fresh air in the urban fantasy genre.
Speaking of urban fantasies, Patricia Briggs is one of the best out there and this happens to be (after some serious deliberation) my favorite cover art of the series – although they are each beautiful in their own way – I could have easily included her more than once.
The moment I saw this cover I went “Ooh! I definitely want to read this!” To this day it is still one of my favorite love stories. I consider it a must-read for fans of the teen genre.
This is yet another cover done by Luis Royo and is simultaneously my favorite series by Julie E. Czerneda. Gorgeous! And intriguing…
I’ve come to realize that everybody pictures dragons in a slightly different manner. Whoever did the artwork for this series captured perfectly the way I envision them – this one’s the best.
I wasn’t a huge fan of the original covers, but when they started re-releasing them with new artwork I kick myself for not buying them in hardcover. Beautiful art that captures scenes in the books with excellent motion and perspective – Loves!
Michael Whelan did the artwork for this series and, as I mentioned in my “Dragon Obsession – The Visual Files” post it is still one of my favorite Dragon artwork. I have tried to re-create it through several mediums but it never turns out quite right. Although it’s only been within the last few years that I’ve noticed the Dragon kind of looks like the giant cockroach alien on Men in Black…
It’s funny, when I first was considering this topic I figured more than half of the books on my list would be from the teen genre. It surprised me how many fantasy books made the list. In any case, of all the teen books out there this is my favorite cover. It saddens me because it was later replaced by one I don’t like near as well.
Honorable mentions:
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- Pearls of Lutra by Brian Jacques
Seeing these three covers in my school library when I was 10 years old inspired me to get good enough at readings so that I could one day pick them up. I couldn’t possibly have a favorite cover list without including them!
What books made your list?
The Obsessive Bookseller 
I love the covers of Sara Douglass books, I have a different cover to that one though. Oh, I was going to put Graceling on my list, but forgot! Great choices.
My TTT
Sabina @ Delirious About Books
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Thanks! I love sara douglass too – I’ll have to look up alternative covers, you’ve go me curious! Thanks for stopping by. :)
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Lost Truth has a stunning cover! I should check out this series. Oh, and Blood Rights looks creepy, in a good way. =) Thanks for stopping by my blog!
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Lost Truth is every bit as good as it looks! :)
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Redwaaaaaaall!! Omg I love the covers for that series. The artwork for all of them is gorgeous, but Martin the Warrior is definitely one of my fav’s. Gah, I love that series so much. :’)
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I love it too – I’m glad someone else can appreciate! :)
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I love that the covers of Redwall made you want to get better at reading.
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Thanks for stopping by! I guess it just proves that I’ve always been weak against great covers. :)
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The cover for “Blood Rights” really is eye-catching. That one’s going on my Goodreads to-read list for certain. But mostly because you recommended it :)
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Thanks Kira – you’ll have to let me know what you think of it. It really was different than anything else I’ve read so far concept-wise. :)
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I remember reading about Blood Rights at some point, but was worried it would be just another vampire book. Glad to hear you thought it was refreshing — and I do love that cover art. Adding that to my TBR now!
Oh, Redwall, how wonderful! My husband introduced me to that book last year, and I loved it. Glad to see another fan!
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Thanks for stopping by! Yeah the vampire books all sort of sound the same. Although this on is similar in some ways there were enough new concepts to make it fresh. Also, glad you love redwall too! :)
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Love the list! I just started getting into Patricia Briggs. Very talented writer. And Kristin Cashore is one of my all time fave’s. She is so so good!
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Thanks! They are both definitely in my top ten! :)
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The Cover for Blood Rights is INCREDIBLE! I love how intricate it is. Great list and thanks for following, I’m following back :-)
Vyki @ On The Shelf
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Awesome! Thanks for the follow back :) I agree, everything from the color scheme to the gold tattoos is gorgeous – frankly I’m glad it was a good book because I would have purchased it anyway lol.
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That first cover is gorgeous.
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I like it too. :)
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Wow, very interesting cover choices! I have not read any of these, and have never even heard of most of them! I love the Lost Truth cover! SO amazing! Thanks for sharing, and thanks for stopping by my TTT. :)
– Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl
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Thanks for stopping by mine! I love the Lost Truth one too – for me they were every bit as good as they looked! :)
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I LOVE the cover on Lost Truth! I’m very interested in this series now…And Graceling is soo pretty too! Thanks for reminding me to actually read it ;)
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I absolutely love those covers too – they are so pretty I bought the books before I even knew what they were about LOL. I think Graceling is right up your alley – I can’t wait to hear what you think of it. :-)
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Lost Truth looks awesome, I must read it.
http://jazminjade.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/top-ten-tuesday-book-cover-art/
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Start with the first truth – it is awesome, feeling like a great mix of fantasy and YA. and there’s dragons!
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I love that Blood Rights cover — that’s just awesome! Here’s mine.
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Me too! I bought it solely because the cover was too gorgeous to pass up… Thank goodness it was a good book. :-)
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The Nightshade cover is beautiful!
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