Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week’s prompt was actually to pick “Frequently Used Words In [Insert Genre/Age Group] Titles”, but, well… you guys surely know by now how much I love changing things up a bit, so I decided to go with frequently used cover designs!
NOTE: For the record, I’m not making fun of these books or their covers (I happen to like a lot of them!), nor am I calling them “over” used… I just thought it was neat that some of these pop up so much on my shelves or on Goodreads!
1. Girls with Weapons
2. Close-Ups of Girls’ Body Parts
3. Close-Ups of Girls’ Faces
4. Food
5. Flowers
6. Bursts/Splashes of Colors On White Backgrounds
7. Dragons
8. Ravens and/or Crows
9. Weapons (by themselves)
10. Silhouettes
Is there any particular “theme” that you feel like you see repeated a lot in your personal library?
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Anne@Headfullofbooks
April 24, 2018Wow. You really did your homework this week! You have had to do a lot of looking around! My TTT
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 24, 2018Haha thank you, Anne! I will say, this was definitely one of the more time-consuming TTTs I’ve done!
abookandacup
April 24, 2018Wow I love how you interpreted this week prompt! It’s so cool!
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 24, 2018Aww, thank you! ♥ Sometimes I worry that people will think it’s silly when I change it up but I like making it my own!
ChrissiReads
April 24, 2018I loved looking at your covers this week. It’s amazing how similar some can be!
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 24, 2018Thank you, Chrissi! It really is!
Jana ? (@ArtsyReaderGirl)
April 24, 2018BAH. I LOVE this topic! Can I use it as inspiration for a future TTT (I’d credit you, of course)? I’d love to see the creativity people come up with!
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 24, 2018YES, absolutely! Thank you so much, Jana! <3
fictionologyst
April 24, 2018I love how you change thing up a bit. This is wonderful post!
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 24, 2018Thank you so much! ♥
Books tales by me
April 24, 2018You cover all the titles 😀
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 24, 2018Haha I tried! 🙂
Tamika @paperback & flick chick
April 24, 2018Wow this is crazy and something I never really took notice of before! I love the covers with girls with weapons, food and splashes of colour. 🙂
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 24, 2018Yeah, I hadn’t realized how prevalent some of the themes were until I made the post! The food ones and the girls with weapons ones were my favorites. 🙂
aravenclawlibrary
April 24, 2018I love simplictistic covers. I love it when the font is the focal point with a white or black background. The photographer in me also loves covers where it’s a photograph.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Those are lovely! ♥ I didn’t know you were a photographer! That’s so cool!
aravenclawlibrary
April 30, 2018Thank you! I have debating about sharing some of my work for a while now but I get so nervous and second guess myself. I do have a photography facebook page if you want to look at it. I can DM you if you want! No worries if you don’t though! lol.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 30, 2018You totally should! I would love to see your photography! 😀
aravenclawlibrary
May 3, 2018Aw thank you! That makes my heart happy! 😀
Annemieke
April 24, 2018I love this idea.It is interesting to see that it is so often girls faces and body parts that make the covers. Rarely are they guys.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Right! And when it is a guy, it’s typically either a really “cool” looking scene (like the Percy covers, where it’s all action and monsters and such), or it’s a harlequin romance type cover with a shirtless guy.
Norrie
April 24, 2018Love this list!
Such beautiful colours!
I think i love the colour splashes the most <3
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Thank you, Norrie! ♥ I love the color splashes, too – they’re so fun and they photograph so well for bookstagram haha!
Jazmin Jade
April 24, 2018I love your twist on the list topic! I am always drawn to a cover with a girl with a weapon and flowers are very attractive as well. Books with faces can be so ugly though haha
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Thank you so much! ♥ The girls with weapons and the flowery ones always pull me in, too – but I also agree about the zoomed-in face covers, haha. One that comes to mind for me is actually The Uglies – I hated the original cover for that book! I like the new white one with the person under the sheet or whatever, though. It’s kinda creepy in a good way, haha.
Tammy
April 24, 2018This was a great idea! It’s interesting, I usually shy away from covers with weapons on them (so overdone!) But I don’t mind it when I see GIRLS with weapons, lol.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Thank you! Haha yes, something about it being a cool model or artwork of a badass chick holding a weapon honestly makes it way more interesting than just a zoomed-in artwork of a sword or something.
Aymee (@asphaltcowgrrl)
April 24, 2018I like how you changed up the theme! But I agree – I often mistake one book for another because so many covers are the same/similar now.
Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thanks!
TeaPartyPrincess
April 24, 2018Ooh I love your take 🙂
Food on covers makes me huuuungry.
Cora | http://www.teapartyprincess.co.uk/
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Thank you! Haha yess, me too – especially the Tell Me Three Things one. It ALWAYS makes me want waffles!
iloveheartlandx
April 24, 2018Ooh I love your take on this topic! I definitely have a lot of weapon covers in my personal library. I’m not so keen on the girl’s faces/faces in general but I’m sure I have a few of those as well.
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/24/top-ten-tuesday-156/
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Thank you so much! I like the ones with a whole cover model, but I’m not very big on the zoomed-in faces. Every now and then, if I really dislike a cover, I’ll buy it on my kindle (even if it’s the same cost as the physical one) just to avoid having it on my shelf, lol!
iloveheartlandx
May 1, 2018Oh I totally get that-I mean why buy a physical copy when it will just ruin your shelf aesthetic?
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
May 2, 2018Haha exactly! I’m glad I’m not alone in this one!
S.E. White
April 24, 2018I am all for these badass ladies with their weapons! Happy that’s a trend now. Also the food. Food is the best. You found so many gorgeous covers! Sigh.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Yessss, me too! It’s such a cool cover – especially when executed well. A recent one that I love (and wish I’d thought to add) is Dread Nation – I love the picture of her holding her sickle! Aww, thank you! ♥
Laura Beth
April 24, 2018I love this post! Wow!!
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Aww, thank you so much Laura Beth! ☻
Gabby
April 24, 2018This is a great take on the topic (and a great list!)
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Aw, thank you so much, Gabby! 🙂
amyriadofbooks
April 24, 2018Girls with weapons! YES!
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Right?! I’m always here for strong, butt-kicking ladies who know how to wield a sword (or sickle, or daggers, or crossbow, or… you get the point lol)
Kay Wisteria
April 24, 2018I love how you did this one! Also I definitely have NO PROBLEM with food on the cover haha
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Thank you so much, Kay! ♥ Hahaha right?! Give me all the yummy foody book covers!
kozbisa
April 24, 2018Food on covers is always a good thing. XD
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Bahaha I agree, especially yummy foods! There’s one book – I can’t recall the name of it right now – but its cover has strawberries dipped in gold, and every time I see it, it makes me sooo hungry for berries, lol!
Flavia
April 24, 2018These are good ones! Great post 😀
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Thank you so much, lovely! ♥
anovelglimpse
April 24, 2018Nice choice! I love it. So different today.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Aww, thank you so much!
emmareadstoomuch
April 25, 2018the color splash ones/bright patterns lately are insane!! i swear every cover is like a pretty pattern with that one calligraphy font. can’t tell books apart for sh*t
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Lmaoooo, WORD though. I feel like this a lot, too – it took me a YEAR to be able to remember the difference between I’ll Give You the Sun and The Sun is Also a Star, between the “sun” titles and the color splashes.
flippingthruthepages
April 27, 2018I missed this week’s topic 🙁 I had no time to write a post. But I loved what you did here 🙂 I totally agree with you on all of the above categories. We are often seen the repetitions on YA covers.
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Oh, no! I always try to do my T10T posts the weekend before just so I don’t miss them, because I feel like Mondays are such busy days for me! I hope you’re able to next week so I can read your post hehe! ♥ And thank you!
Jenna @ Falling Letters
April 29, 2018These are something interesting themes that I probably wouldn’t have picked up on! I like seeing all the covers together… My first thought when I read this topic was something like “books with big bold metallic fonts”, kind of like on the cover for Now I Rise (see also: Walk on Earth a Stranger, The Star-Touched Queen).
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 29, 2018Thank you, Jenna! 😀 I’m not sure what made me notice it but I think it was when I had a bookstagram prompt to show off covers with birds on them, and I realized I had, like, EIGHT books with crows and ravens on them! So then I started paying attention to my shelves more and noticed it – it’s so weird! Yes, I do see a lot of bold metallic fonts lately – which is funny, because I’m such a sucker for that stylistic choice? I’m not sure why, but I really love how it “pops”!
Kelly | Another Book in the Wall
April 30, 2018I couldn’t agree more with all these choices! Especially the close ups of girls’ body parts and faces! <3
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
April 30, 2018Thank you, love! ♥
Julianna @ Paper Blots
June 16, 2018OH MY GOD I NEVER NOTICED THESE BEFORE
Destiny @ Howling Libraries
June 18, 2018Bahahaha isn’t it weird?!