Ten Fall Covers from My TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together. This week's topic is Top Ten Book Covers that Give off Fall Vibes

1. The Folklore of Forever (Moonville, # 2) by Sarah Hogle
2. Dark Age (Red Rising, # 5) by Pierce Brown
3. The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon
4. The Mist Thief (The Ever Seas, # 3) by LJ Andrews
5. A Kingdom to Claim by Sian Ann Bessey
6. Ex Marks the Spot by Gloria Chao
7. The Notorious Virtues (, # 1) by
8. The Book of Azrael (Gods and Monsters, # 1) by Amber V. Nicole
9. Phantasma (Wicked Games, # 1) by Kaylie Smith
10. The Martian (The Martian, # 1) by Andy Weir

Which books have your favorite fall covers? Let me know!

Problems Only We Know # 4: When Book Covers Lie

I'm starting a new feature called Problems Only We Know. This is feature is meant to be funny--sarcastic at times-- that highlights on a few topics here and there that can be annoying or small inconveniences that only readers/bloggers will understand.

Let's talk lying book covers.

I've made it my goal to keep my blog "family friendly". I've written an entire post here on what that means to me, but the main thing is that I aim to keep book covers with mostly naked cover models or cover models in compromising positions as well as books with cursing in the titles off my blog. Even though I don't enjoy reading overly descriptive sexual scenes or books with a lot of cursing, I have read some that push my limits at times, but if I've featured it on the blog then it's because I've found an alternate cover edition out there and I've made note of my feelings toward the content within my reviews.

But sometimes book covers lie.

Sometimes books with the cutest covers are packed with descriptive content and/or language.

These book covers leave you thinking "Whoops! That didn't go as I expected!"

Sometimes books with the raciest looking covers don't include the content that the covers hint at.

These book covers can you leave you thinking "Where's it at?".

Sometimes book covers don't have anything to do with the content within.

And these book covers can leave you thinking, "What did that have to do with anything?".

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Have you guys ever been lied to by a book cover? Is this a problem that you're familiar with? Let me know!

Ten Books I Read Because of the Book Cover

Top 10 Tuesday is a post hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week's topic is Ten Books I Read Because of the Book Cover.

Most of these books ended up being 3 Stars or less. But a few turned out to be gold nuggets. I've since learned more about my reading preferences and to look deeper than a pretty cover.

1. The Sin Eater's Daughter (The Sin Eater's Daughter, # 1) by Melinda Salisbury
2. A Thousand Nights by EK Johnston
3. The Selection (The Selection, # 1) by Kiera Cass
4. Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, # 1) by Marissa Meyer
5. Need (Need, # 1) by Carrie Jones
6. Wicked Lovely (Wicked Lovely, # 1) by Melissa Marr
7. Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, # 1) by Maggie Stiefvater
8. Blue Bloods (Blue Bloods, # 1) by Melissa de la Cruz
9. Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, # 1) by Becca Fitzpatrick
10. Sea Change by Aimee Friedman

Which books have you read based only on their covers? Which ones turned out to be great picks? And which ones were a waste of time? Let me know!

Ten Books I Almost Want to Read Based Off Their Covers

Top 10 Tuesday is a post hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week's topic is Visual, but since I really don't read graphic novels or any other visual type of books, I thought I'd go with book covers.

Although, I have to say that none of these books are on my TBR list because of the descriptions or because I've not clicked with the authors in the past.

1. The Talon series by Julie Kagawa - I've just not enjoyed her books in the past, but I love these covers.

2. Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard - I had these on my TBR list at one time, but some of the reviews I've seen just kind of turned me off.

3. The Ashfall series by Mike Mullin - While the book covers look awesome, I became aware that one of my triggers is involved in this series so I do try to avoid those when I can.

4. Blood of Gods and Royals series by Eleanor Herman - I liked the description for book 1, but this was another that after I saw some reviews decided that it's probably not for me.

5. The First Days by Rhiannon Frater - After reading Pretty When She Dies by Rhiannon Frater I removed her other books from my list.

6. Skylark by Meagan Spooner - I've actually enjoyed Meagan Spooner in the past and these sound interesting, but they're just not on my TBR list because I don't think I have time to get around to them.

7. Gravity series by Melissa West - This one was on my TBR list at one time, but like the previous series, I just don't see myself ever getting around to this series despite the pretty covers.

8. The Star-Touched Queen by Roshani Chokshi - Honestly, there's not much of a reason why I don't have this one on my TBR list. I just had to make a decision on whether to add this series or not and even though I like the covers, I chose not to add it.

9. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton - I have to say that I like the cover for book 2 much better than book 1. And that's probably a big reason why this never made it to my TBR list. I didn't add book 1 because I didn't love the cover, so book 2 never made it because book 1 didn't.

10. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir - Same as # 8.

So what do you guys think? Are any of these worthy of their beautiful covers that I might need to reconsider adding to my TBR list? Let me know!