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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges
I watched a video the other day of most beautiful book covers, and it gave me an idea. In my opinion all books are beautiful in their own way, so I’m incorporating that video into a post of my favourite pretty books. Now, some of these may not be pretty to you, but I have my reasons why the book are on here, and you will be told them reasons. Also these aren’t in favouritism order, but the order they are on my bookshelf.
King Of Ashes by Raymond E. Feist
The King Of Ashes cover is a bit plain, but when you look closely you can see the detail. So obviously the first thing you see is the crown, which is nicely detailed with crevasses for a design and has red and black jewels. Then you see the smoke coming off of the crown and watch it turn to embers, and if you look closely behind the crown you can see coal. Like I said before, it’s a very simple cover but I think that what detailed has been put in is amazing.
The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher
I think this is a beautiful cover because of not just the look of it but the feel of it. Obviously its got gorgeous colours on it and the yellow writing goes so well with the white and the light blue. Then there’s the dinosaur itself, you can see all the detail that’s been put into it so it’s not just a cartoonish image. When you feel the cover its got texture, the snowflakes are bumpy as are the fairy light that are around the dinosaur.
Caraval and Legendary by Stephanie Garber
Of course I was going to have these two (technically 3) books on here.
Caraval (UK edition) is beautiful, I love how the writing is curvy but easy to read with the tear drop under the A. And how there’s a few stars mixing in the stripes, they kind of remind me of sparklers). Then there’s the back of the book, it’s the same design basically but its white with black stripes instead of the black background and gold stripes.
Legendary (UK edition) is just as beautiful as Caraval. I love how there is a cluster of gold stars making a ring around the title. I also like how there is a tear drop again, but this time it’s under the G. And on the back (which is white) the black stars seem to explode outwards around the synopsis.
I also have the US Legendary, because I saw it at the bookshop near me and I couldn’t resist buying it. I love how there’s blue detailing on the each of the corners, and the club in the middle of the book is filled with rose petals. And then the gold writing is beautiful and flowy and when you look closer you can see hints of red in it and I think it’s amazing. And then there’s the back which shows you the invitation for Caraval!
I can’t get enough of these books!
Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
I have a lot of reasons for loving this cover. So to start off with I’ll just talk about the front: It’s simple but it stands out at the same time. When I look at this my eyes are instantly drawn to the tiger, the orange is so bold against the white of the boat, and not only that but the way the tiger is taking up the majority of the boat with Pi huddled up on the other side because that really shows the ‘relationship’ these two had. Another thing I love about the cover are the sea animals, when you look at them you can see squiggled lines on them from the water, which I like because it’s the small details like that which I find amazing. Now I’m going to talk about the back of the book: I love how the back is designed like a rusty boat and I think it’s amazing because the more I think about it, what else could it be?
Children Of Blood And Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
There’s only one word that comes to mind when I think of this cover: Wow. There’s so much detail to it and I love it! When you look at the girls face (I’m presuming it’s Zélie) you can see so much, like the detail on her forehead, her eyelashes, her cheekbones, etc… Then there’s the hair! The white stands out so beautifully, and there are certain strands that are a silvery mirror type material (I can’t think of the correct name) so when light hits the book it, it reflects off of the material. Another thing I like about the hair is how it swishes in, out, and around the title, so the words are incorporated into the cover and it’s not just stuck on there. I love how the colour of the title (including Tomi Adeyemi’s name) transitions from a bright read to a dark red/brown colour. I honestly think this cover is beautiful!
World Cloud Classics
I’m putting Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, Sense And Sensibility by Jane Austen, and The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling (soon to be more) together because they are very similar, but I also want to talk about them separately. The one thing that is on all of these covers that I love is the small quotes all over the front, as well as the main characters!
Little Women – First off, I just want to say how much I love this orange, it’s so bright! I live how the title of this one is a foil type material that’s silver but when a light hits it, it’s a light purple. And then on the back they chose a quote from the book which made me happy and sad, here’s the quote (I’m also going to show you want it looks like): “I’m not like THE REST of you; I never made any PLANS about what I’d do when I GREW UP; I never THOUGHT of being married, as you did. I couldn’t seem to IMAGINE myself ANYTHING but stupid little Beth, trotting about at HOME, of no use anywhere but THERE. I never wanted to go away, and the HARD part now is LEAVING you all.” I’m happy because they put a quote of Beth and she’s my favourite and deserves more appreciation; I’m sad because of the meaning behind the quote… anyone who has read this will know why it makes me sad.
Sense And Sensibility – The blue cover and the pink writing have killed me! I’m not normally a fan of pink, but this is amazing! I love the font of the title and Jane Austen’s name, especially the A in Austin, I don’t know why. I haven’t read this but I really like the quote on the back, so I’m going to tell you it: “After all that is BEWITCHING in the IDEA of a single and constant ATTACHMENT, and all that can be said of one’s HAPPINESS depending entirely on any particular PERSON, it is not meant- it is not fit- it is not POSSIBLE that it SHOULD be so.” I don’t really know why I like this quote, but I do. You never know, I can’t dislike it once I’ve read the book. Who knows?
The Jungle Book – This is the same orange as Little Woman but it looks different to me, it’s nice though. I also really like that the title is a felt type material which feels really nice. And because I did it for the last two, I’m going to share the quote on the back: “He GREW UP with the cubs, though they, of course, were grown wolves almost before he was a child. And FARTHER WOLF taught him his business, and the meaning of things in the jungle, till every rustle in the GRASS, every BREATH of the warm night air, every note of the owls above his head, every scratch of the bat’s claws as it roosted for a while in a TREE, and every SPLASH of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of his office means to a business MAN.”
Six Of Crows and Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
These books are way too beautiful to exist. The fact that the crows have detail to them, but also the fact that the bottom the birds design a castle. Everyone will know these covers, but I couldn’t not add them to this post. I love the red font for Six Of Crows and the swirly lines on each side of ‘Of’. Then I love the black and gold for Crooked Kingdom, as well as the font. What I also love about Crooked Kingdom is the back of it, I don’t know why, but there’s something about the gold details that I really like.
The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
First I’d just like to say I love the blue on this cover, and I think it goes it so well with the black. My favourite thing about this cover is that the writing is inside of the head (I’m presuming it’s Charlie) like it’s been written by chalk, although I don’t know anyone who can write that neatly with chalk. And you can’t see it (duhh) but on the back the bottom half of the body that got cut off carries on, on the back. Also, I don’t know if you can see it on the picture, but at the bottom of Charlie, there’s flowers and I think that’s so cool because it adds onto the wallflower theme.
The Woman In Black by Susan Hill
Honestly I think this is just one of my favourite book designs is because The Woman In Black is one of my favourite books, so it has a big soft spot in my heart. I love how there’s swirly details along the edges of the book that look like vines, as well as them being on the back. Then I also like how the woman is all black and it’s like she’s part of the ground and the twigs around her. The font it another thing that I like because I looks like it’s been written in a fountain pen, and it just goes really well with the rest of the cover.
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
I think I would be pretty stupid to not add this book to this post. I don’t even need to explain why I love it, but I’m going to anyway. Firstly, I would like to appreciate the font, it’s nothing special but I just wanted to say that I really like the C and the B. Now the main reason why this is beautiful: I think it’s amazing how they made the stairs mash with petals to make it look like a rose, and because it’s a Beauty And The Beast re-telling it makes sense a lot of sense for it to be that way (that last bit flew away from me and there’s no fixing it at this point, sorry).
Everless by Sara Holland
I think it’s amazing how they incorporated the hour lass and blood together for the cover. So, blood can be extracted prom people and bound to iron coins. The richer you are, the more time you have to live while the poor bleed themselves dry for money. So having the blood run through the hour glass I think is very creative. Then there’s also how the blood is shaped to look like a female in the top half, and then the bottom half the blood is shaped into a castle.
And that is all of the books I’ll be showing. I have other books that I normally think are pretty, but while I was looking through my bookshelf none of the other covers stuck out to me like the ones I have already talked about did. When I get more books, or when some other books stick out to me I’ll probably do a part 2 of this, but that could be ages away. And please, tell me what some of the beautiful books you own are, I love looking at pretty books so the more the merrier 🙂
P.s. The ‘cover photo’ didn’t really go as planned. The top went to pot (it’s why they are crossed) and I didn’t add two of the book in. I also had to put an old small jewellery box under the floppy book on the 3rd row to keep it up right. So I hope you appreciate my “hard” work.
Till next time
Byeeeeeeeeee
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