52 Book Challenge - Week 42

They say you should never judge a book by its cover. But now we're actively encouraging you to make a choice based on cover art.

For this week's reading challenge is:

42. A book with an appealing cover.

There are some awesome cover designs out there, and some top-flight artists have done brilliant work with making covers eye-catching and appealing (Penguin Random House has a whole Pintrest page full of them, and you can find lists of cover art and cover artists all over the Internet*).

Unfortunately, we have a habit of buying hardcover books and taking off the slip jackets, so you may notice that many of our books don't exactly have appealing covers as you find them on our shelves (which throws a damper on using them in book displays, let me tell you). But, hey, that's what the Internet is for. And if you walk passed a book in a shop and say "that's an appealing book cover", why not look it up in our catalogue and see if we have a copy?


Have you missed out on hearing about the 52 Book Challenge? Catch up here.


(*For something to read to kill time, go to Kate Beaton's Hark A Vagrant page and check out all of her adaptations of Edward Gorey covers - probably the best way to find them is to go to the archive and search for Gorey. A word of warning, Beaton's sense of humour can be a tad "puerile").