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I like the new Hillerman books. Diana Gabaldon’s are always classy and rich. Nothing extravagant, just classy. George R.R. Martin’s Fire and Ice books.

A few years ago there was a mystery about a cutting horse trainer who was murdered. The cover featured the most gawd awful, garish yellow boots with brilliant inlay designs and his pants tucked in them. It was probably one of his clients who killed him for wearing those ugly boots, while showing one of their horses. I had to tear the cover off before I could read the book.

http://nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/

I’ve been particularly interested in covers this year, since my first novel is coming out in the fall. Thankfully, I do like my cover.

Winners of the year for me:

1. Joe Dunthorne, _Submarine_
2. Arnon Grunberg, _The Jewish Messiah_
3. Charles Bock, _Beautiful Children_

REMAINDER…Mouthwash container – half used?

WONDROUS LIFE… Blood stain on a bed sheet?

ILLUMINATED… Looks like what that guy in the Edvard Munch painting, THE SCREAM, is SCREAMING!

DOCUMENT… (1) Clothes on a Renaissance sculpture? (2)Pee spot in gritty snow?

FALLING MAN… Off into The Wild Blue Yonder WTF?

GHOST… At least the background is Ghost-tee white!

TREE… athrosclerotic arteries coursing through adipose tissue?

CHABON… Aztec throw rug?

BLOOM… Bacchus picnic in the Grand Canyon sans wine?

STOLEN CHILD… Straight up the middle – too static. Put just one element of the picture (even the Title) on the left side – would work better?

Now you can criticize me… go to,

http://www.jacketflap.com/profile.asp?member=PYXX

Haste yee back 😉

But is there anything worse than a terrible movie tie-in cover on a great book? The book is then tainted. (Best/worst example: The movie tie-in edition, with Brooke Shields on the cover, of “Endless Love.”)

2. (Ferris) Blah.

3. (McCarthy) This is okay.

4. (Diaz) I like this, but I agree that there is something irritating here; I think the black font could be bolder so that the red doesn’t end up distracting the reader from the title. As it is, I think the red dot pulls you in and intrigues, but it also confuses, since the font is somewhat overwhelmed.

5. (Safron) I love this. In fact, of all of these, it is the most arresting. I like the calligraphic effect of the lines. I can’t say that I’d buy the book, but I find this aesthetically pleasing. Takes all kinds.

6. (Spiotta) Yuck.

7. (Spiotta) Bleh.

8. (DeLillo) Okay-ish, but I can’t really see the title.

9. (Roth) Just okay. I quite like the fuzzy quality to the red font.

10. (Johnson) This is okay.

11. (Chabon) Hate this.

12. (Bloom) This reminds me of a fifties cookbook. Okay, but only on a fifties cookbook. Which I’m assuming this isn’t.

I especially dislike covers that are a single bright color with the title and author in big print of another bright color. Yuk!

That said, I can’t say that I don’t have some idea of what I’d like my book to look like some day, I’d just probably end up making it look stupid, all the while thinking I was the next Picasso.

I’ll not rate each one, but I would say, that if I were buying a book, and these were all I had to choose from, I’d buy McCarthy’s – something about the image looks mysterious, therefore intriguing.

2. Joshua Ferris’s THEN WE CAME TO THE END in paperback — Meh

3. Tom McCarthy’s REMAINDER — Like

4. Junot Diaz’s THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO — Dislike

5. Jonathan Safran Foer’s EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED — U-G-L-Y, you ain’t got no alibi.

6. Dana Spiotta’s EAT THE DOCUMENT in hardcover — Dislike (and her breasts are very uneven, btw)

7. Dana Spiotta’s EAT THE DOCUMENT in paperback — Meh

8. Don DeLillo’s FALLING MAN — Like (with a bullet)

9. Philip Roth’s EXIT GHOST — Dislike

10. Denis Johnson’s TREE OF SMOKE — Dislike

11. Michael Chabon’s THE YIDDISH POLICEMAN’S UNION — Meh (but I would pick it up for a more thorough investigation)

12. Amy Bloom’s AWAY — L-O-V-E it.

Two of my favorite covers are on A Certain Slant of Light (both editions) by Laura Whitcomb. The one in the bathtub is similar to what I would choose for the novel I’m about to shop, if I had that choice.

Another is the cover on The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. It has eyecatching color, and “what you see is what you get.”