This week, The Broke and the Bookish is asking for the Top Ten Book Covers I’d Frame as Art. These maybe aren’t all things I would frame and hang up, but they would be displayed somehow.
Wondershow by Hannah Barnaby. I love this cover – the muted colors and the way everything looks like paper cutouts.
The Fairyland Series by Catherynne M. Valente: I would LOVE these as plates or something. Eggs? DRAGON EGGS? I’m getting ideas.
Charm and Strange by Stephanie Kuehn: I love this paperback cover. This is only the first wolfy cover on the list, but they fit in so well with the decor I already have. Here is our decorating “theme”: wolf things because of the dog, cat things because I’m a weirdo cat lady, Smokey the Bear, San Jose Sharks. It’s a mess. But we just got some vintage-y Smokey the Bear juice jars that I’ve started using almost exclusively.
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness: I think if this was hanging it my house my heart would break every time I looked at it (good boy, Manchee ilu).
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles by Haruki Murakami: See? Weirdo cat lady. I would love a poster of this cat butt. I’m imagining it in my library/reading room. The walls are kind of minty green or light light gray and there are a lot of poster size covers that have white backgrounds and not much happening.
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott: This is probably my favorite cover EVER. I think it would be fun to get the pattern and make it myself and hang OR what about an embroidered throw blanket that has this on it? Obviously it would have to stay in my magical made up library/reading room.
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater: I really like this edition’s cover BUT what if that horse had a twin and they were book ends?
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater: If it’s not already obvious, I just searched through “all editions” of books I love on Goodreads. I wouldn’t want art of books I didn’t like or haven’t read. I’m so drawn to this cover, but I can’t actually picture it hanging in the house anywhere.
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck: I love this cover, but Cannery Row is also sort of a sentimental place for me since Monterey is where Marshall and I met and got married and lived. We used to walk around Cannery Row all the time and he would tell me stories about growing up there.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling: I don’t even want/like children, but if I was decorating a nursery or a child’s bedroom for some reason, I would definitely use the covers from this edition. It’s just so weird! Am I not remembering a part where Harry has to be disguised as a giant rat in order to infiltrate a giant-rat gang? Can we make that a thing?
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