Book Cover Categories

In honor of March being National Reading Month, I wanted to write a blog post about books because of how much of an impact they have in my life. However, I decided to have some fun with the subject and browse through my personal bookshelf and reward them with superlatives based on their covers.

Prettiest Cover:

This was tough because I think many book covers are pretty, but I think that this is a worthy choice:

NOT A DROP TO DRINK by Mindy McGinnis wins this title. Of course, the sequel to this book is just as pretty. I love how the cover is broken up into two different color schemes. The storm clouds brewing gives an ominous feel (as if the black-and-white landscape didn't do it for you). Also, I like how the book title integrates itself in the landscape as opposed to overlapping everything.

The writing inside is beautiful, by the way.

Coolest Cover

Sometimes you choose a book simply because something about the cover drew you in (job well done to those book cover artists). This was one of those books for me:

H2O by Virginia Bergin (It goes by a different title in Britian, though). It's sort of hard to understand why on a computer screen, but if you see the physical book in your hand, you'd see why. See those three acid-looking dots? Those are actually holes on the cover. They begged me to touch the book and run my fingers over the raised bumps. And then I had to take the jacket off to see the words hiding beneath (where I found a paragraph in the form of a raindrop).

H2O is written in the viewpoint of fifteen year old Ruby and she actually sounds like a typical fifteen year old. She has such a humorous and candor voice.

Most Badass Cover

I have a thing for dystopian/adventure/action books (and movies) and I was pretty much sold when I saw this cover (heck, even the title of the book is pretty badass).

The walking stance! Those eyes! That gun on her belt! The destruction that is raining down on her.

A.C.I.D. by Emma Pass was certainly a thriller and the action just kept on coming. She even had to change identities multiple times. And was thrown in jail once (sort of twice).

Creepiest Cover

Okay, I'm going to cheat here. I kept going back and forth between three books and I managed to narrow it down to two and couldn't choose from there. And since this is my blog, I can bend my own rules.

Book #1 of the tie:

First of all, it was hard picking just one book cover from the Unwind series by Neal Shusterman because they all have a creep factor. However, in the end, I chose UNSOULED (book 3 out of 4 total) because of all the faces. And, yes, those are faces that line a wall. What ups the ante on the "creep" factor is the fact that only one of those faces has eyeballs.

Book #2 of the tie:

THE FALL by Bethany Griffin is a retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher". As if that information and the cover doesn't give you goosebumps, then perhaps I should tell you that the story opens up with the main character, Madeline, inside a coffin.


...And just in case you were curious, book #3 runner-up was HOLLOW CITY by Ransom Riggs. The only reason why I didn't include it was because I already had one monochrome cover. (Also, I feel like this is a pretty popular book and I wanted to give the more obscure ones some love.)


And there you have it! I bet you don't need me to tell you that you should go out and read all of the books, right??

P.S. Which creepy book cover do you think should win?