Tuesday’s topic: Favorite book covers from 2024

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Lately, I’ve been bouncing back and forth for my Tuesday posts, switching between the Top Ten Tuesday and Top Five Tuesday memes, depending on their topics for the week. This week, I’m doing them both!!

First up… Top Ten Tuesday:

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is a freebie… and since I like the Top 5 Tuesday topic this week, I’ll use it for both memes.

And speaking of Top 5 Tuesday:

Top 5 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Meeghan Reads — check out the next batch of upcoming topics here.

This week’s topic is Top 5 covers of 2024, and the prompt is: What are some of your favourite covers that you have seen this year? Maybe these were reprints, redesigns or alternate covers that came out this year, or maybe they are brand new books!! Whatever they are, tell us all the pretties you have been coveting.

For my list of favorite covers, I’m looking at books I’ve read in 2024 — not necessarily books published in 2024. (My list, my rules!)

Here’s a selection of covers I loved this past year:

Weyward by Emilia Hart
The Answer is No by Fredrik Backman
Schemes & Scandals by Kelley Armstrong
The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
Until Next Summer by Ali Brady
The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong
Hula by Jasmin Iolani Hakes
Camp by L. C. Rosen
The Guncle by Steven Rowley
The Lost Story by Meg Shaffer

What do you think of my cover choices? Do any particularly catch your eye? What were your favorite book covers this past year?

Also, I’d love to know what freebie topics other people came up with!

If you posted a list for TTT or T5T, please share your link!

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27Feb2024

Top Ten Tuesday: Covers with Things Found in Nature

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Covers/Titles with Things Found in Nature. I’m sticking with covers — maybe I’ll come back and do titles another time (like when I’m stuck for a freebie topic!).

Ten of my favorite nature-themed covers:

The Fall of Koli by M. R. Carey
The Parliament by Aimee Pokwatka
The Suite Spot by Trish Doller
What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn
Wolfsong by T. K. Klune
Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley
Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton
Birds of California by Katie Cotugno
The Children of Red Peak by Craig DiLouie

Do we have any books in common this week?

If you wrote a TTT post, please share your link!

26Apr2022

Top Ten Tuesday: Books with BOOKS on the cover

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Books with [___] On the Cover (Pick a thing (a color, an item, a place, an animal, a scripty font, a sexy person, etc.) and share covers that have that thing on the cover.). I took what seemed like an easy-ish approach and went with books!

I love books about books and readers — how about you? Do you have a favorite?

What was your TTT theme this week? Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!

3Aug2021

Top Ten Tuesday: Covers That Made Want to Read/Buy the Book

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Titles or Covers That Made Want to Read/Buy the Book. I think I’ve done quite a few title-related TTT lists, so let’s focus on covers! Below are 10 covers that caught my eye and made me NEED the book.

The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine
The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Mina Lima edition of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling
Outlawed by Anna North
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moren-Garcia
Watch Over Me by Nina LaCour
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
Cress by Marissa Meyer

What books have you bought because of their covers? Please share your TTT links!

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20Apr2021

Top Ten Tuesday: Colorful Book Covers

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Colorful Book Covers. I misread the topic, so I had a completely different list ready to go… but I guess I’ll save that one for another time! I went back to my shelves and looked through all the covers there, and came up with this collection of colorful book covers:

The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
Icons by Monica Ahanonu & Micaela Heekin
Jane Was Here by Nicole Jacobsen
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
Outlawed by Anna North
Mythos by Stephen Fry
The Peacock Emporium by Jojo Moyes
The Sun Is Also A Star by Nicola Yoon
A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey
The Royal We by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan

What colorful book covers did you feature this week?

Share your links, and I’ll come check out your top 10!

28Jan2020

Top Ten Tuesday: Cover Elements I Love & Loathe

Posted in Top Ten Tuesday by Lisa @ Bookshelf Fantasies

Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Book Cover Freebie – meaning we come up with our own spin on the topic, so long as it relates to book covers.

I thought I’d keep it simple and highlight types of covers that I love… plus a couple that I loathe.

I LOVE:

1. Covers featuring dreamy characters gazing out to sea — my favorite example being this lovely cover for The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley:

2. Bright colors on a black background: Maybe it became popular back with Twilight, but I’m always a sucker for the bright-on-black look.

3. Cutesy cartoon-y romance covers:

4. Cheesy 70s covers:

5. Moody urban fantasy heroes:

6. A series with a committed cover theme:

7. Bonkers looks for a bonkers book — such as these covers for books by Grady Hendrix:

8. Covers full of YUM — I’m not a foodie, but I do love a good cupcake!

And just a couple types of covers that I LOATHE:

9. Bare chests. Muscles. Tattoos. Muscle-y tattooed chests. You get what I mean.

[Note: Sorry — I started looking for images to go with this one, and I just couldn’t. For whatever reason, this type of cover makes me cringe SO much.]

10. Movie/TV tie-ins. I mean, I love a great adaptation as much as anyone, but I still prefer my book covers to be just book covers, not pictures of movie or TV stars. Even for my beloved Outlander series, I’d still take an old-fashioned cover over the new Jamie/Claire/TV cover (and don’t get me wrong, I adore the TV series!)