2019 Reading Challenge: Has a cover you like

They say never judge a book by its cover, but how can you not ogle at these beautiful designs? For this part of the 2019 Reading Challenge we are actually asking you to judge your book by its cover. (I know, it's hard to believe!) Book covers have become an art form all in itself and with only a few seconds to grab someone's attention, it's not hard to understand why! There are so many options out there, but here are just a few eye-catching covers that we have come across:

The Vegetarian by Han Kang

Deciding to renounce eating meat in the wake of violent dreams, Yeong-hye, a woman from a culture of strict societal mores, is denounced as a subversive as she spirals into extreme rebelliousness that causes her to splinter from her true nature and risk her life. 

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

When her latent supernatural powers manifest in front of a noble court, Mare, a thief in a world divided between commoners and superhumans, is forced to assume the role of lost princess before risking everything to help a growing rebellion.

 

All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld

Jake Whyte lives on her own with a disobedient collie and a flock of sheep. Every few nights something--or someone--picks off one of the sheep. There are foxes in the woods, a strange man wandering the island, and rumors of a mysterious beast prowling at night. And there is Jake’s relentless past—one she tried to escape thousands of miles away and years ago, concealed in stubborn silence and isolation and the scars that stripe her back.

 

Euphoria by Lily King

Frustrated by his research efforts and depressed over the death of his brothers, Andre Banson runs into two fellow anthropologists, a married couple, in 1930s New Guinea and begins a tumultuous relationship with them.

Tin Man by Sarah Winman

A heartbreaking celebration of love in all its forms gradually reveals a fallout between two longtime friends and Oxford students over the course of a decade marked by the marriage of one and the disappearance of the other.

How to Be Safe by Tom McAllister

  

A teacher, still furious over the injustice of being suspended over a so-called outburst, must deal with her town’s relentless scrutiny and judgement after she is erroneously named as a suspect in a shooting at the school where she works.

The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey

A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discover a little girl living in the wilderness, with a red fox as a companion, and begin to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own. 

The Pisces by Melissa Broder

Bottoming out after a dramatic breakup, doctoral student Lucy accepts her sister's invitation to dog-sit at her home on Venice Beach for the summer, where she meets an eerily attractive swimmer whose Sirenic identity transforms her understanding of what real love looks like.

Binti by Nnedi Okorafor

Binti is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. Oomza University has wronged the Meduse, an alien race, and Binti's stellar travel to the university will bring her within their deadly reach. If Binti hopes to survive, she will need both the gifts of her people and the wisdom enshrined within the University, itself--but first she has to make it there, alive.


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