I’m linking up with The Broke and the Bookish for their incredibly awesome meme: Top Ten Tuesday.
This is a meme involving lists, peoples. LISTS! I love lists.
This week’s prompt is: Top Ten Books I’d Frame As Pieces of Art. Oh, my bookish soul is giggling frantically. This topic is just too delicious. I have a serious book cover obsession, peoples. But I will limit myself to ten! I promise! I’m a good little puppy.
If it’s a Maggie Stiefvater cover it’s probably gorgeous (have you seen the new cover for Sinner?!) but book #3 of The Raven Cycle just takes the cake. And the cream. AND ALL THE THINGS. It’s gorgeous and I’m in love.
I didn’t end up loving this book as much as I wanted to…buuut, we can’t deny that delicious cover. I am so happy to have this on my shelf.
You knew I’d sneak these on the list didn’t you? Oh, come on, don’t sigh! They’re not on every list…just, um, most of them.
And I have to admit, I’m hyperventilating just a little about Ensnared. Because I don’t want it to be Jeb’s face on the cover but I think it will be… HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR TO FIND THIS OUT?!
I’m not the world’s biggest fan of this series…but the covers! OH THE COVERS. The whole creepy eyeball thing is really interesting. I have no idea how it relates, actually. But I love them.
I own this one, but I haven’t read it yet. I’m kind of scared to read it, really, because I adore the cover. I’ve been coveting this cover all. year. long. And what if it the pages between don’t live up to the awesomeness of the cover?!
Speaking of aliens, though, have you seen the cover for book #2, Invaded? Don’t. Just…don’t. What went wrong? That’s all I can ask.
I’m a sucker for simple covers, and ohhh, Tiger Lily manages to mix “simple” and “beautiful” together in a mush of orange and black delight. I also like orange. Not prison orange, don’t worry. Just normal orange.
These almost always end up on my list too, don’t they? Gosh, I need to expand my bookish horizons. But while we’re here: ADMIRE. Yes, yes, just go ahead and mire the gorgeousness that is the apocalypse.
Don’t say shooting for survival isn’t pretty now, okay?
Is this not creep-tastic and wonderful? I have no idea why there’s a shoe on the cover and why that relates to “dolls”, but, I LOVE IT.
It makes me think of Cruella DeVil.
(And I haven’t read it yet.)
What? It’s my creepy side. You know I have one. There’s something about this cover that screams sadness and electric freakiness and call-the-Winchesters.
(I haven’t read this one yet.)
I literally just got an ARC of this in the mail yesterday and ohhh, my precious thing. I love all things hand-drawn, and there’s just so much happening in this cover. It calls to me. I must read it.
Now I know YOU all are perfectly sane and not as cover obsessed as I am. But, if you dare, tell me: out of these 10, which is the BEST? And what is your favourite cover of all? Also link me up to your Top Ten Tuesday post! I’m a little demanding today, I know.
Oh, and just a quickie note, our giveaway is still live and blossoming if you’d like to pop over and enter. You could win The Winner’s Curse, actually. So, go! Go! Go!
Cait is waiting until she’s filled up her bookshelf and then she’s going to arrange them by colour. Colour coded bookshelves are the best. (Just saying it like it is, okay?) To be honest, she actually hasn’t read a book in over a week. Horrific, right? But she’s nearly finished her current WIP…lots of angst and creepy faeries so far. Survival of characters is dwindling into the single digits.
The cover for Tiger Lily is beautiful 🙂 Great picks!
I really want to love the covers on the Shatter Me series. But I have eyeball phobia, so they just kind of freak me out!! I've seen Not a Drop to Drink on a few people's lists today. And with good reason – those covers are awesome!
Aw, well, I can kind of understand that. I mean, they only have whole forest growing out of their eyeballs. I like eyes. My nephew and I were discussing them the other day. (He's 3.) He told me he liked my eyes and how they were brown. They he poked my eyeball out with his little fingers. -_-
I almost put Tigerlily in mine, actually! Very pretty. But the only one we have in common is Splintered. It should be on everyone's TTT, really. I often have similar books every TTT as well. Maybe we both need to expand our bookish horizons. I love ALL these covers but my favourites (apart from Splintered) would be The Minnows and Not a Drop to Drink (which I still haven't read…oops). This week's TTT is so much fun!
SPLINTERED IS THE BEST THAT'S WHY. We have epic fairy tale taste. x) So yes…why is that?! I almost always put NADTD on my lists….or The Giver series or The Hunger Games. Haha! I'm TRYING hard to be varied though. >.< The Minnows is just amazing, right?! I'm pretty keen to start it!
I know right?! And it fits the book soooo beautifully. 🙂
I actually have Ignite Me in my list but I think that all the covers of the series are absolutely beautiful although I have yet to read it… czai @ the Blacksheep Project
Ignite Me is the best of the 3, I reckon. 😉 Beautiful, right?!
Ahhhh, all these are great picks, but only Alienated is on my list. Love these picks! <3Top Ten TuesdayOne Broke Girl
Alienated absolutely ROCKS as a cover!! I'm off to see yours now. 🙂
I NEED ALL OF THESE IN MY LIFE. ON MY WALLS. ON THE CEILING. EVERYWHERE. Your lists are always just…asdfghjkl, perfect, Cait.
SO DO I. PARTICULARLY ON MY CEILING. THAT WOULD BE THE BEST.
I wanted to put Tiger Lily on mine, too. And that cover for The Dolls, I saw an ARC of it at conference and went whoa. But if I recall, the premise didn't sound that good to me.
Buuut the cover! I don't even care about the premise sometimes when I'm just staring at a beautiful cover…x)
Of Breakable things is so freaky Cait, why?! I totally agree with Alienated, Splintered + Unhinged and The Winner's Curse. If only these could be made into posters!Jeann @ Happy Indulgence
Yes, yes, it is freaky and that is why I need it in my life. YES to the posters. Why isn't that a thing yet?!! It should totally be a thing.
Great choices!
Thanks!
The GIF use on #4 . . . xD
I was so proud of that one I had to show Mime. x) She sighed at me.
I'm really trying not to freak out. *breathes in breathes out* Ok. I think I'm ok. * SCREAMS* THE COVER FOR BLUE LILY, LILY BLUE!!!!! MY HEART! GAH I'M IN LOVE! I love The Raven Cycle series. Love it!!! Why I never saw this cover before now is beyond me. Thank you for posting it! You made my day!Bethzaida @ Bookittyblog
I KNOW RIGHT?!! JUST DRINK IN THAT GORGEOUS COVER. IT IS THE BEST OF EVER. I'm about to read book #2 and I'm soooo excited. These books = the best of ever.
You really make me want to read all the future – y books where the world is ending and such. You two are the only people I know who can make me want to do this.
The world ending is obviously a beautiful thing, right? Those books get the BEST covers.
These are all so amazingly pretty. I'd totally frame these. 🙂
Me too. I'd need a pretty big wall, though…
Some of those covers are gorgeous with a capital G. And a capital O. And, well, just put it in caps lock. But yeah.I LOVE the Alienated cover. Please, my library, get that in soon! Wait. I could put that on hold…
YES LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT IT AAAAALL IN CAPS LOCK BECAUSE THAT'S HOW BEAUTIFUL THEY ARE.
So pretty!! <3
I'm mildly in love with them, I'll put it that way.
Great covers, we are cover twins on some of them! I almost picked Alienated and the Not a Drop to Drink covers myself, they are both amazing and I own both. I picked the Shatter Me series, I haven't read the books yet but I adore the covers. I have no idea how the eyes relate but I like that they go in sequence from dead branches that are starting to freeze as the eyelashes in one corner, to frozen branches as the eyelashes that are starting to melt in one corner like a tear and then up to the fully melted one that's now bloomed! LOVE IT 🙂 🙂 🙂 Blue Lily, Lily Blue… WOW… just WOW!!! 🙂
Eeep! I know, right?! And Blue Lily…afjdaksf I'm still so hopelessly in love with it 'scuse me BRB JUST FANGIRLING. And ohhh, I SEE IT NOW with the Shatter Me series. I hadn't though of it that way. But YES. Totally!
Hi! I just found your blog last week.I can SOOOO relate to loving a book cover but being afraid to read it just in case it doesn't meet my high expectations. It has to be a legit phobia. It HAS to be.I need to read Splintered and Unhinged now, just because of the covers 🙂
*waves* Hiiiii Mary! (Just in case I didn't say it properly before.) Splintered and Unhinged are JUST as good as the covers, I promise you! But yes, I've totally been disappointed by beautiful covers and not-so-beautiful words in between. 😉 I didn't like Ava Lavender but I do so love the gorgeous cover.
My favorite is… Splintered or Ignite Me or Alienated or Tiger Lily. With other words, I can't make a choice. My all times favorite? I have really no idea… They all have their beauties (most of them, I mean), haven't they?arendedewit.blogspot.com
I can't make choices either. AND WE SHOULDN'T HAVE TO. There are too many beautiful covers that deserve all my love.
Great List! I definitely need to check out that Minnow's book! Beautiful cover, I'm intrigued! I would of totally chose Splintered and Unhinged too but I was only choosing from the books I've read and I have read those one yet. I do, however, have the books sitting in my bookcase, waiting for me to read! :)Come by and check out my Top Ten Covers @ Book Hangovers xoxo Michelle
You so need to read them!! Okay, okay, but I do say that to like EVERYONE because I'm absolutely obsessed with those books. x)
YAYAYAYAYYA THESE BROKEN STARS AND TIGER LILY!!!And it's ok to have the same books on most lists (or every list) because sometimes these books are just WAY TOO GOOD and they fit with everything that you needed it to fit with. Val @ The Innocent Smiley
Yes! Exactly! Sometimes I just feel the need to tell you guys my favourite books again and again until you throw them at my head. x)
I'm reading Tiger Lily right now! Mwahahaha, I mock the world with my gorgeous book cover.Everytime I silly the cover for Blue Lily, Lily Blue I get all giggling and excited. And then I get depressed and angry because OMG I HAVE TO WAIT A THOUSAND LIFETIMES.
Ohh, what do you think of it so far?!! I gave it 4-stars because I was expecting, well, MORE. But I still absolutely love it. And the cover…*smothers cover in hugs* It is so beautiful I just have to stroke it.
I'm going to agree with all of them… except for 8-10. o_o
Hehe…well each to their own, right?!!
So many pretty covers! I love the Blue Lily, Lily Blue cover and the Splintered covers!Great list and thanks for visiting The Story Goes…
Blue Lily has me fangirling hard…seriously! I can't even WAIT until it comes out. I. am. dying.
I forgot about The Winner's Curse which I just read this past weekend. It's gorgeous! Also love the Shatter Me series and I love Blue Lily.
I wanted to put SO many more on mine!!! This week 10 was not enough, right?! 🙂
Great choices Cait! I absolutely love the covers of Alienated, Splinted and The Winner's Curse! Although, knowing you, where's the cover of These Broken Stars on here? (Just wondering since I know how much you love it – although I don't blame you!)Thanks for sharing! <3
I was GOING to put it on!! It is truly one of my favourite covers of ever..buuut, I had a feeling it'd be one of the top picks this week so I skipped it. 😉 Devious aren't I?
Uhhh whoa, The Minnow cover is amazeballz! I can clearly see your taste in art from this list 🙂 Great picks!!
I KNOW RIGHT?!! I am so in love with that Minnow cover!
I remember Shatter Me's first cover with that girl in the white dress. These ones are way more artistic and a lot more interesting. Your top 10 reminded me that I should read Splintered asap too. Great choices! P.S. Followed you via Bloglovin, I'm now a new minion 🙂
Oh gosh that first Shatter Me cover, with the fearsome tutu?? *gags quietly* It is NOTHING compared to these beauties! x) Thanks for following, Amir!
Love the covers you chose! They're all stunning and would look amazing as art to hang around <3 I specially liked the first one and Not a Drop to Drink 🙂
Blue Lily is just my new One True Favourite Cover Of Ever. Seriously, I HAVE to own that book!! XD
Splintered made my list too!!! It is BREATHTAKING!!! So is Unhinged, I have yet to read them though!! Ignite Me barely missed my list! But I am in love with "Not A Drop To Drink"!!! It is beautiful, and I want to track it down to read now!!Morgan @Remembered Deservedlyhttp://deservedly.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/top-10-book-covers-id-frame-as-pieces-of-art/
Splintered is just soooo amazing! It's one of my most favourite series of ever now. I can't WAIT until Ensnared is out. :)) So excited for the cover release.
I love your covers! Some of them are on my To Be Read list!
I'm quite partial to them myself. 😉
So many great covers! I love The Winner's Curse cover but I prefer the one with the blueish floor. I also really like the Not A Drop To Drink covers and the Alienated one. So preeeetttty. Fantastic list.Thanks for stopping by my TTT 🙂
You know, I didn't even notice there was a difference in the floors…but now that you mention it. OH YEAH. I think I like the blueish one better, too. Haha!
So pretty!! The Shatter Me series and Tiger Lily are amazing and I love that I can come on here and see all the amazingly pretty cover art and be excited (because that's what fangirls do right?) But here is a link to my ttt: http://strawberrydrapes.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/…
Tiger Lily is just as beautiful as the cover. 😉 SO much love!
I actually used to have a color coded bookshelf but TBH it was too troublesome for me to keep it up. :0 I know! As for book covers, I've got to say ooh! I love book covers and those were awesome picks. My favourite of your choices is definitely Splintered and Unhinged. Those covers are brilliant, aren't they?
Shatter Me and The Winner's Curse are really gorgeous! 😀 Not a Drop to Drink is one of the runner ups in my list but unfortunately I only got ten spaces so I had to exclude it, but not only is the story of Not a Drop to Drink great but also the book cover :)my top ten tuesday: http://wp.me/p3v5T1-pc
My mother changed it back because she couldn't find any of the books!! XD But that's okay, I'm going to do it with my own books. lol Those Unhinged/Splintered covers are my absolute life loves. x)
Ten was NOT enough, was it?!! I have SO many awesome covers that I absolutely adore…aaajkfdls! SO MUCH COVER LOVE.
I was really close to including Not a Drop to Drink on mine. It's technicolor gorgeous and all, but the little person on the top of the house stopped me. But, it perfectly matches the story! Also, color coded bookshelves sounds awesome. I think we are going to build a large bookshelf this summer and may have to try that!
I didn't even notice the little person until recently! I think it's a cool touch, actually, since they spend most of the book on the roof shooting people. 😉
I totally adore The Winner's Curse! I can't wait to see the cover for the next book! Also, love the artist who designed the Mindy McGinnis books, she's fantastic!
OH YES! I hadn't even though about the cover for BK 2! How are they going to top this one?!!
*gasp* Blue Lily, Lily Blue. I swore to myself that I'd add it to my TTT, but did I remember? NO. ugh. I think my favorite covers are Blue Lily, Lily Blue and the NaDtD books. Gorgeousness. 🙂My TTT
HOW COULD YOU FORGET??!! It's gorgeous. It's my favourite.
Blue Lily, Lily Blue *grabby hands*. It's absolutely gorgeous. I think the best one of the series! We had some similar choices, lol. Between the Splintered series, I probably like the Unhinged cover more than Splintered because… Morpheus. Duh. In a Handful of Dust I think is prettier than Not a Drop to Drink but that's probably just me because I'm more partial to red colours. Great choices!
I'm about to start Dream Thieves, but I soooo loved Raven Boys. I JUST LOVE ALL THINGS MAGGIE STIEFVATER.
I chose not to participate this week because I CAN'T CHOOSE 10 COVERS, lol! 😛 I adore all of your choices!! I've never heard of The Minnow but THAT COVER. How can I possibly resist it?!
IT WAS HARD!! Why did they make it so hard?!! *sobs wretchedly in the corner* And I know right?! I requested the Minnow purely off the cover. x)
*sighs happily* All these covers are so gorgeous and I'm definitely doing this prompt! 😀
Eeeep! I really liked your post, too!
I love the cover for 'Alienated', I've never seen anything like it! Love what you did with the animations, it really made the post a lot of fun to read! 🙂
It's just SO beautiful! I think sci-fi covers almost always are the best. x)
Unhinged. Oh Mothy, how I love you so.The only cover I'd really have up on my wall would be Ink by Amanda Sun I think it is. I love the stunning watercolour sketch. There's so many stunning covers though, The Winner's Curse is a close second to Unhinged. The More Than This cover by Patrick Ness, although hardcover, it's so soft to touch. The peekaboo window is a bit controversial, it's far too small to fit through but I see what he did there. It all comes back to Wonderland and Alice's too small door.Ohhhhh Moth *le sigh*
Oh, I DO like Ink….and the sequel, or is Ink the sequel? Either way, those books are gorgeous! They remind me of Chinese paintings. Oh, I DO like the More Than This cover! I just got that in the mail, like yesterday. Sooo delicious. x)Everything leads to Wonderland. So I guess it's kind of like Rome, really….but with Morpheus and no Pope.
Splintered seems to be a favorite! (I'm surprised These Broken Stars isn't here) But your choices are fantastic!
Because it deserves all the ultimate love, right?! 😉 I was GOING To put These Broken Stars up there but I ran out of room.
I love love Splintered and Unhinged. I would've added them to my list but since I haven't read them yet I didn't add them. Beautiful!!!AngieAngela's Anxious Life
They are the BEST. I can't recommend them enough. x)
I was going to do this TTT but I forgot >.< This was such a cool subject idea! I LOVE the way the girl is holding the 'R' in The Winner's Curse (I'm reading it at the moment!), but her expression of agony on her face isn't so great. Looks like she slipped a disk in her back when she was curtsying (she is, isn't she?) or maybe her dress is really heavy.Great post, Cait! Though I'm really surprised you didn't put the Throne of Glass novels in your list! 😉
I love it when the cover-people interact with their titles. Like in Love Letters To The Dead! And Fangirl! They're sitting on their titles and it's awesome. XD
Wow what an eclectic collection you've chosen that The Dolls one doesn't make me think of dolls but creepy crawly slithery things obviously. Nice list!
It totally intrigues me though…but yeah, definitely snakes as opposed to dolls. Or possessed dolls? I'm sure the Winchesters can fix it.
I love your cover choices. Yum! They look so deliciously beautiful! Thank you for stopping by for my TTT! Also, I'm really mad at you cause now I have to go add some of these books to my already long TBR pile. 😛
MORE BOOKS!!! MWAHAHAH! I'm beginning to think I will never read all the books I need to read. 😉
Ah, Tiger Lily is such a beautiful book, and the cover is so, so beautiful. I love that. Also, it helped me like Peter Pan slightly-a-lot-less, because I wasn't totally keen on him before, but now I can hardly stand him.I didn't read the Shatter Me series (didn't like the first novel) but these covers are both strange and really interesting. I'm not sure if I love them, but I certainly really like them- particularly that last one, which is maybe the strangest when you first look at it but then morphs, at least for me, into the most striking. Lovely list, and I'm very much enjoying reading these snippets about your WIP! Best of luck with it, Cait.x
Really?! You don't like Peter Pan?! Nooooo!! He's my favourite classic of EVER (aside from Alice in Wonderland). I was really happy with Tiger Lily, except for when Peter grew up. *sobs* Crush my childhood dreams, why don't you. I didn't like Shatter Me either, but I loved Unravel and Ignite Me.
Nope! I didn't like the book all that much when I read it and I just find him to be such an irritating character, in every adaptation I've seen except for the… 2003… live adaptation, because that is one of my favourite movies and it's just spectacular.
Oh, also… I haven't read the Splintered series, wasn't sure and heard a few mixed reviews for it, so does this mean you'd recommend it, Cait?
Oh gosh, I LOVE the 2003 Peter Pan movie. *heart melts* I was utterly obsessed with it when I was small(er). And heck yeah do I ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY 100% recommend the Splintered series. I AM VERY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT IT. CAN YOU TELL?
I'll go with Tiger Lily! (Although, honestly, I'm not particularly fond of the font face used.)
I love the oranges!!
Tiger Lily is gorgeous and the SPlintered series have gorgeous covers as well even though I am not a fan of the second instalment. And The Winner's Curse omg. Great list! <33
Whaaat?! You are not a Morpheus fan I take it. 😉 But that's okay, I'll forgive you. Mime isn't a fan of either so far…hehe.
You picked really nice covers! I almost put The Winners curse on my list too and I love the cover of Splintered.Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier! El @ So Bookalicious
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for linking to the new SINNER cover! I hadn't seen it yet and it's so much better than that old one. Pish.I also like the Edward Scissorhandsy new Raven Cycle cover.Wendy @ The Midnight Garden
I love Maggie Steivafaver's! She always has the best covers. The colors are amazing. I've only read one of her books though. . . or most of it, Shiver. I didn't really like it. . . I might try one of her other series. The covers are too tempting. I really like Alienated too. That one looks so interesting and it has so many colors. I can't wait to read your review of it.
OOOOH I LOVE THIS POST!!! I admit to being just as obsessed with book covers as you are! *claps hands wildly*Have you seen the cover for our edition of Tigerlily? It has a different font and little gold dots all over it! I think you will LOVE it 🙂
Awesome list! I especially loved Alienated’s, Blue Lily Lily Blue, and Minnow’s. Gosh they are so pretty. They’re not overwhelming at all and the colors just jump right at you.
As for me I especially love covers that show the universe or the stars, like These Broken Stars and the covers by Christian Schoon’s Zenn Scarlett series. Anything with the universe and the cosmos gets an A+ from me!
Faye at The Social Potato Reviews
Tiger Lilly is such a great cover. I haven’t read the book, but I am completely obsessed with the cover. Thanks for putting it on my radar.
The Dolls cover is nice and creepy looking 🙂
I concur…all of Maggie's covers are great, but TRC covers deserve wall space for sure. So many of these ALMOST made my list, including Tiger Lily and the Shatter Me series. Wouldn't our walls look ever so lovely with nothing but book covers on them?
I super love The Minnow cover!