Top Ten (Or So): Covers of Books Read in 2019

So for the fourth year in a row, I feel like this year was really not great for covers. Maybe it's my fault...? I've somehow lost my appreciation for book covers? Or maybe it's because the kind of book I read now has changed, and that kind of book doesn't tend to have nice covers.

Who knows. Anyway. There's only two that I would say spoke to me in any way. The rest I chose just because I had to choose more than two, and they were nice enough.

So in approximate order from favourite to least favourite, my top ten of last year:

The cover for The Emperor's Blades is just beautiful. It gives me a feeling of epicness. And having three such different looking people made me think there could be at least three very awesome characters in it. (I didn't end up enjoying the book as much as I enjoyed the cover, although it was good.)

I, Robot is the second cover that struck me. It's just so green and computery! I can't explain it much more than that. The version I had was a beautiful hard cover, too. It even felt great.

The minimalist aesthetic appeals to me a lot. That's all I really need to say for Goodbye, Things.

Gotta give a place to a good, old-fashioned hard cover book, which is exactly what Man's Search for Meaning was. Plus it's blue. I like blue.

I'm not exactly sure why The Mastery of Love's cover appeals to me, but it does. I think half of it is the feel of the book, actually. The uneven pages, the smallish size of it, the bendy-but-still-firm-ness. Good stuff.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand is a bit similar, actually. Half of why I liked it is the feel of the book, although the cover is also noticeable and interesting to me.

The Chronicles of Harris Burdick has beautiful illustrations inside and out.


P.S. See also my previous lists: 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018.