A non-exhaustive list of books that stopped me dead in my tracks solely because I judged them by their beautiful covers and then I bought them all
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If you love HORROR with gorgeous covers
If you love LITERARY FICTION with beautiful covers
If you love SPECULATIVE & SCIENCE FICTION with lovely covers
If you love MYSTERY/THRILLERS with pretty covers
If you love HORROR with gorgeous covers
A horror book with a beautiful cover will immediately add a star to even the worst book. I don't make the rules. These horror books have GORGEOUS covers.
Highly recommended. A weird collection of short stories about what it means to be a woman in a speculative way.
Shit Cassandra Saw: Stories
Is the house haunted or just the marriage? Read this if you like a slow moving horror
Accumulation
Okay, I actually didn't care for this book. But, can you really say no to this cover?
Spoiled Milk: A Novel
A cover that looks like an acid trip and a book that reads the same
Moonflow
Turly grotesque in both cover art and story
Freakslaw
If you love LITERARY FICTION with beautiful covers
If it doesn't have a nice cover, I will not pick up the book. I live and die by that rule. These LITERARY FICTION books have beautiful covers.
Super short and insanely readable. A gay mountain lion just wants to fit in and find where they belong.
Open Throat: A Novel
A beautiful cover with a book about eurphoria, in a sense
200 Monas: A Novel
A hilarious book about a woman losing grip on reality when her nephew gets inhabited by the spirit of a dead corgi
The Hitch
A ghost story that isn't actually about ghosts at all
Tokyo Ueno Station (National Book Award Winner): A Novel
If you love a rambling inner monologue and an unhinged premise then pick up this book, if not for the cover alone
Agnes Lives!: A Novel
If you love SPECULATIVE & SCIENCE FICTION with lovely covers
When a book is weird, it should have a corresponding weird cover. SCIENCE FICTION and SPECULATIVE books should have lovely covers. These ones all do.
A weird book about a boy that's part human and part mosquito. Read this if you like an odd time with an odd story
Dengue Boy: A Novel
A short story collection with a science fiction horror twist
Portalmania: Stories
Short stories with a speculative twist with a Nancy Drew-esque cover to die for
Stranger Things Happen
LOOK at this gorgeous cover for a weird book by Paul Tremblay
Dead but Dreaming of Electric Sheep: A Novel
If you like Black Mirror then grab this perfect collection of short stories
Out There: Stories
A fever dream of a book that is confusing as it is beautiful
The End of Everything: A Novel
If you love MYSTERY/THRILLERS with pretty covers
MYSTERY and THRILLER books don't normally have very visually pleasing covers. These ones, though, these books have very pretty covers.
Genre-bending at its finest with this thrilling science fiction book reminiscent of Girl, Interrupted
The Once and Future Me: A Novel
If you're a fan of cult stories, then pick up this beautiful book immediately
Gaslight
A mystery in the sense of “how did this get published?” but the cover is truly beautiful
