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[Hopeless_Romantic]

This question has been on my mind for a while [since I finally realized I actually have a favorite book cover] and it kind of goes along with the "Buying romances for aesthetic reasons?" thread.

We often talk about favorite books, authors, plots, genres, etc. but DO YOU HAVE A FAVORITE BOOK COVER - unconnected to the story itself?

Even though Harlequin photo covers of young hunks is almost always pleasing I love the drawn covers on vintage books. Here is my all-time favorite book cover:



Ironically, the cover of the very next book this author wrote has a couple that looks very much like the one on this cover - they look like the same models to me.



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What is your favorite book cover?


P.S. www.fictiondb.com almost always has a picture of the book cover, in addition to synopsis, even vintage books; and often has one of each cover version.
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[Tee]

For me, it's still from the The Duchess of Fifth Avenue by Ruth Ryan Langan in 2006.

[lor]

My very favourite cover. The image does match the description of the hero, Joe Mackenzie, in the book.



lor

[KataO]

How do I add the picture here? I tried to copy and paste it, but it didn't work.

[Linda in sw va]

Would have bought this for the cover alone but the book was excellent!


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"The Bookshop has a thousand books, all colors, hues and tinges, and every cover is a door that turns on magic hinges." ~ Nancy Byrd Turner

[library addict]

I love many of the SIM covers from the early 90s. Two of my favorites are

Without Price by Dee Holmes:


and

Run to the Moon by Sandy Steen:


I also really like the Carina cover of Shannon Stacey's Exclusively Yours:

[library addict]

[KataO]

Thank you library addict for your advice, but this is this the only way I managed to do it.

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/f/charlotte-featherstone/lust.htm

My favorite cover... and this is also how I imagined "Charming" Mickey in Elizabeth Hoyt's Scandalous Desires.

[Nicole]

My favorite is the hardback cover for Sarah Addison Allen's Sugar Queen. I think all of her covers are really nice.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0553805495/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

In general I think covers are getting better and better these days.
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She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. -Louisa May Alcott

[Kayne]

My fav covers are Lord of Fire and Lord of Ice by Gaelen Foley. I don't have the images but they are at Amazon. They are pictures of estates.

[xina]

[PWNN]

I love the hand drawn covers, especially those like the 1950s-60s Mary Stewarts



And those by Francis Marhsall for Barabra Cartland (who I don't read)

http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2009/09/francis-marshall-lessons-in-love.htm


A classic for a classic



Patricia McKillip covers



I already owned a copy, the dress doesn't fit the title or character but I bought the new edition anyway



Gorgeous atmospheric cover (for a great book) in a genre with a lot of shlock covers


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[autumn]

I'm a sucker for a good looking guy on the cover.

I've not even read this book but the cover is just wow.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Infernal-Devices-Clockwork-Angel/dp/140632132X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1321971492&sr=8-1

Again, not a romance, but this cover made me fall in love with Jack Absolute, and the book's great too.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blooding-Jack-Absolute-C-C-Humphreys/dp/0752865277/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321972081&sr=1-2

[Eggletina]

Not my favorite cover, ever, but I do remember picking up Maria Snyder's Poision Study because the original cover intrigued me:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/s/maria-v-snyder/poison-study.htm

[Susan/DC]

I like the cover of the most recent Charlotte Featherstone a lot; it's historically accurate and manages to be extremely sensual while keeping both hero and heroine fully clothed. At the other end of the genre spectrum, Deanne Gist almost always gets good covers.

http://www.amazon.com/Passion-Brethren-Guardians-Charlotte-Featherstone/dp/0373776179/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1322016403&sr=1-1

http://www.deeannegist.com/bookstore.php?bookname=bride

http://www.deeannegist.com/bookstore.php