Bonjour tout la monde, today’s Top Ten Tuesday choice of topic from Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl is Books with Nature on the Cover—as in flowers, trees, or landscapes. So, as someone who reads quite a bit of speculative fiction, I think I might have to mine my crime fiction reading or, literary titles to find anything for this week’s challenge. Or, even, the odd children’s or YA book. Nature and flowers make me think non-fiction mostly.
But, here goes anything, right?
- THE LOST APOTHECARY by Sarah Penner did, at least, have some exotic looking purple flowers on the cover. A cover, which, I might add, was what drew me to reading this book to begin with.
- SALVATION STATION by Kathryn Schleich has a sad looking doll lying amid a ground cover of weeds, on the cover. At least, I think it’s weeds. Does that count? Can I cheat?
- LOST HILLS by Lee Goldberg and DIAL A FOR AUNTIES by Jesse Q Sutanto both have palm trees on their covers … does that count? Or am I cheating again? I think I’m cheating, aren’t I?
- THE GRAVE’S A FINE AND PRIVATE PLACE by Alan Bradley features a willow tree reaching out across a river … and while that’s another stretch, the book itself was a really fun read.
- RESURRECTION BAY by Emma Viskic features a beach scene with grasses on the edition I bought. So yes, nature and landscape. The same with the follow up, AND FIRE CAME DOWN, that features a very vivid forest-scene ablaze with fire. Both excellent reads, by the way.
- FORCE OF NATURE by Jane Harper features a sweeping dark and foreboding looking jungle scene on the cover of my copy of the book.
- A KILLING IN THE HILLS by Julia Keller is another cover which features a dramatic forested landscape.
- THE YEAR OF THE WITCHING by Alexis Henderson has one of the creepiest black and white, ghost-like covers featuring woods which, quite frankly, you wouldn’t get me in.
And you? What book covers, if any, did you come up with to share?
