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Do you have a really abominably painfully ugly book cover to nominate? Something so bad that you feel a need to put a post-it note over it while reading what is inside to keep from cringeing? Please feel free to add to the list.
PLEASE NOTE: Nominations should be considered only on the Cover Art--the outside packaging. Not to what is inside. Remember, authors rarely get to influence their cover art choice and bad covers are usually not their fault. (There are different lists for criticizing the insides. This is not one of them.) Ugly cover art only, please!
Again, this Listopia list refers only to the outside packaging! Not to the book inside.
Let's try to be nice about self-published books. But publishers that can afford to hire professional artists are fair game.
PLEASE NOTE: Nominations should be considered only on the Cover Art--the outside packaging. Not to what is inside. Remember, authors rarely get to influence their cover art choice and bad covers are usually not their fault. (There are different lists for criticizing the insides. This is not one of them.) Ugly cover art only, please!
Again, this Listopia list refers only to the outside packaging! Not to the book inside.
Let's try to be nice about self-published books. But publishers that can afford to hire professional artists are fair game.
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The Last Don
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3.90 avg rating — 19,780 ratings
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Norwegian Wood
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3.99 avg rating — 706,290 ratings
score: 20,
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The Love Haters
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Katherine Center (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 72,284 ratings
score: 19,
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504 |
Elon Musk
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 71,835 ratings
score: 18,
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Lolita
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3.87 avg rating — 925,989 ratings
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette
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3.87 avg rating — 594,621 ratings
score: 4,
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506 books ·
230 voters ·
list created January 26th, 2011
by MB (What she read) (votes) .
MB (What she read)
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A
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Cindi
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I'm going to add a lot more when I have a chance to think about it.
Frankly, I look at this as constructive criticism for publishers. Ha!

Notable exception: Flux Books, of which there is already one on this list (imho just meh but not the WORST I've seen!) I loooove the cover for Mahoney's Iron Witch.
I'll be back to vote (and abstain from voting) some more!


Subliminally, I feel like I'm being told to 'check my brain at the door' while reading.

Cindi wrote: "I especially hate when they just put a bulging body with no head showing...it's too embarrassing to read them in public. It says, "Who cares about brains or personality...I only care about animal p..."
I agree!
I agree!


I hate those covers too. Unfortunately, they must sell well.


It's very nice of you to think everything is beautiful, but you are pretty unique with that opinion.
I'd rather let the book take me places.


WHY THE HECK DID THEY USE THE TV SERIES THAT HAS PRACTICALLY NOTHING TO DO WITH LAURA INGALLS WILDER!!!??!?!?
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