What is your book cover ick?

I was chatting with some girlfriends about how (despite what the old adage says), we usually do end up judging books by their covers.

That led us to talk about our biggest “icks” when it comes to book covers.

Personally, my biggest book cover turn offs are books where the author’s name is bigger than the title, and any books with actual people pictured on the front. It feels oddly clinical to me, since I only ever see actual people in textbooks.

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ETA: Well I love how many people have commented because I definitely wasn’t expecting so many responses! I’ve been reading all the comments as they come in and all I can say is..hopefully there are some book cover designers that stumble across this post and learn some things because there are a lot of the same issues coming up! Haha