The Friday Face-Off: Chaos

  

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme at Books by Proxy. Join us every Friday as we pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe.  You can find a list of upcoming topics at Lynn's Books.

This week's topic is:
Chaos

This week's topic was a lot of fun, there are quite a few chaotic covers out there. I decided to share two this week that I felt fit the bill well. First up is Wolf in White Van, which may sort of be a pattern of some sort, but boy do all those lines make me feel chaotic! The second is Golden State, which features a pretty chaotic array of free overpasses. As a SoCal native, the cover for Golden State definitely reminds me of where I live with those crazy (and kinda scary, if you think about it??) freeway overpasses. 😂 I also threw in the cover for Ben H. Winters' Quiet Boy as well, since it has a bit of a 'chaotic' vibe to it as well. 

2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 2015 B Format Paperback | 2018 Italian

2015 Dutch | 2015 Spanish

Golden State by Ben H. Winters (+ Quiet Boy!)

2019 Mulholland Books | 2021 French | 2019 Large Print

2019 Century | 2019 Arrow | 2021 Mulholland Books

My choice(s):

It's crazy, but I like it!

What cover(s) do you like the most?

The Friday Face-Off: Books with 'Book' in the Title

 

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme at Books by Proxy. Join us every Friday as we pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe.  You can find a list of upcoming topics at Lynn's Books.

This week's topic is:
Books with 'Book' in the Title

There were seemingly endless possibilities this week, so rather than just picking one cover, I decided to pick a bunch of covers! Even with that, though, there were a lot of options to choose from, so it's only somehow a small handful (seriously, titles in the vein of "The Book of X" are abundant!). Regardless, let's have a look at them. :)

2014 Hogarth |  | 2018 Katherine Tegen | 2006 Atria

2005 Riverhead | 2009 Knopf | 2006 Running Press

2015 St. Martin's Press | 2011 Harper Perennial | 2016 Alice James Books

2015 Random House | 2010 VIZ Media LLC | 2021 Del Rey Books

My choice(s):

These are all so unique and lovely, I'm not sure I'll pick a favorite this week!

What cover(s) do you like the most?

The Friday Face-Off: Bursting With Detail

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme at Books by Proxy. Join us every Friday as we pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe. You can find a list of upcoming topics at Lynn's Books.

This week's topic is:
A very busy cover full to bursting with detail

So this week's topic is actually 'spider's web,' but unfortunately I can't seem to find any books I've read that have spiders or webs or anything of the sort on them?? I would've bet on the fact that at least one of them had some sort of web, but not that I can find. Instead, I decided to go back and do a topic that I didn't get to a few weeks ago: covers bursting with detail! It's not as Halloween-themed, but I have plenty of options for this theme. And I swear this time I was going to only choose one cover to compare... but then I couldn't decide which one, so here's a variety. :) I tried to make them a bit bigger this week so that you can better enjoy the detail, as well!

2009 Hardcover | 2006 Hardcover 

2017 Hardcover | 2017 Hardcover

2020 Paperback | 2018 Hardcover

2019 Paperback | 2015 Hardcover

2020 Hardcover | 2020 Paperback

2019 Hardcover | 2014 Hardcover

My choice(s):

You know, I wasn't even going to try to pick a favorite, but I actually do really love these two. The Book of Lost Things is probably one of my absolute favorite (books and covers!), but I adore all of the colors in Shades of Grey. 

What cover(s) do you like the most!?

The Friday Face-Off: Pattern

Welcome to The Friday Face-Off, a weekly meme at Books by Proxy. Join us every Friday as we pit cover against cover, and publisher against publisher, to find the best artwork in our literary universe. You can find a list of upcoming topics at Lynn's Books.

This week's topic is:
Pattern

This topic was so fun! I really wanted to just stick to one cover like you're supposed to, but... there were just too many! In a coincidental timing fashion, the entire Wormwood trilogy has some great patterning on its covers, and there were quite a few others that I thought had some unique variations of patterns as well, so I just decided to share a select few from different books.



2018 Orbit | 2019 Orbit | 2019 Orbit


2019 Thomas Nelson | 2018 Knopf | 2014 Farrar, Straus, Giroux


2017 Chicken House | 2017 Imprint |  2014 Thomas Dunne



My choice(s):

I really love all of the colors on the Rosewater books, but I really love these two covers! The hedge maze pattern is so beautiful to me for some reason for To Best the Boys, and I am so enamored with the patterning on Wolf in White Van. Definitely not a cover that's easy to forget!

What cover(s) do you like the most!?