Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This Week's Top Ten Tuesday Topic:
Animals on Book Covers
I'm not particularly drawn to book covers with animals so this seemingly easy prompt was a tricky one for me. I had to a deep dive on my Goodreads shelves to come up with ten. And by deep dive I mean that I had to back more than a decade on my "read shelf". I did manage to find ten, though, and ended up with an assortment from wolves, bears and horses, all the way to birds, butterflies and snakes.
Wolfsong - T.J. Klune
The Raven Boys - Maggie Stiefvater
The Belle of Belgrave Square - Mimi Matthews
Written in Red - Anne Bishop
Tell the Wolves I'm Home - Carol Rifka Brunt
Good Boy - Sarina Bowen & Elle Kennedy
The Queen of Nothing - Holly Black
Mockingjay - Suzanne Collins
Point of Retreat - Colleen Hoover
Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson
Have you read any of these books?
Wow! You had to go back ten years.
ReplyDeleteDeb - Closer to 15 years, actually. I just had so few books with animals on the cover.
DeleteI love the cover for Wolfsong!
ReplyDeleteMy post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-titles-with-aquatic-animals-in-them/
Lydia - That one was easy since it's my current read. :)
DeleteI'm the same about animals on covers! I'm not a huge animal person, so if I see a dog or something on the cover, it kind of puts me off a little!
ReplyDeleteAngela - Oh my gosh, yes! I'm a so *not* an animal person but I swear if you come out and say that people act like you admitted to kicking puppies or something. I am the same, an animal on the cover totally puts me off. If I know a dog or pet plays a big part in a story, I know it's probably not something for me.
DeleteThe Furiously Happy cover gives me so much serotonin. I love it.
ReplyDeleteHere's my TTT if you wanna stop by <33
Erica - I agree! Just looking at the cover makes me smile. :)
DeleteI love your choices! I always smile when I see Furiously Happy. I need to read it.
ReplyDeleteThe Furiously Happy cover always, always makes me smile. I listened to that one on audio. It was a lot to take at once but it was enjoyable listening to it in small spurts.
DeleteI've read The Raven Boys and the rest of the the series and loved them. I had a Maggie Stiefvater cover on my list this week too, but a different book.
ReplyDeleteMy TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/04/11/top-ten-tuesday-415/
I think The Raven Boys made a lot of lists today. :)
DeleteI hadn't seen the wolf in Written in Red until now :o I have The Belle of Belgrave Square in my tbr right now
ReplyDeleteI rarely read historical romance, but The Belle of Belgrave Square was a surprise hit for me. Hope you enjoy it!
DeleteThat cover for Furiously Happy gets me every time 😂 It's wild and I still haven't read the book but I do have it on my shelf. I also really love the new covers for Klune's series cos they're so colourful and eye-catching. Great picks, Tanya!
ReplyDeleteDini - Doesn't Furiously Happy have the best cover? :) It makes me smile every time I see it.
DeleteI loved this prompt and used variations of it more than once.
ReplyDeleteI thought you were really going to go with lions and tigers! The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, The Night Tiger, The Tiger's wife, Where the Lion Feeds.....
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Mareli - You give me way too much credit! lol I was searching high and low just to come up with these ten. If I'd actually tried to find lions and tigers and bears, I'd still be searching. Haha! And yet you rattled off several with ease!
DeleteWolfsong! I love that new cover! Also love the covers for the Raven boys series and The Others series.
ReplyDeleteLindsey - I've had Wolfsong on my Kindle for years, with the original cover. But when I saw the new cover, I had to have it for my shelf. :)
DeleteWolfsong is on my list too and I love the cover of Furiously Happy!
ReplyDeleteSophie - That Furiously Happy cover gets a lot of attention. How can you not smile at it? :)
DeleteYou ended up with a nice assortment of animals! The only one I've read is Mockingjay. Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks! This was actually a tough prompt for me to do.
DeleteI love that you went with a variety of different animals on your covers. :D
ReplyDeleteThanks Lark! I had to search high and low just to find these ten.
DeleteLove that Jenny Lawson cover. I have a picture of Sloth with a cutout of that fox? red panda? from BookCon.
ReplyDeleteSam - The Furiously Happy cover makes me smile every time I see it. :) Aw, you should share the Sloth pic sometime!
DeleteI like Furiousy Happy :)
ReplyDeleteGreg - One of the best covers ever. :)
DeleteYou've found so many different animals! Thanks for stopping by my blog earlier.
ReplyDeletePam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/going-to-the-dogs-again-10-more-books-with-dogs/
Thanks Pam! :)
DeleteGreat cover choices! I can't believe I forgot the Wolfsong one, especially considering it's on the shelf right behind me, haha.
ReplyDeleteSuzanne - The only reason I remembered to use Wolfsong is because it's my current read. Ha!
DeleteI like your choices even though you had to dig deep, lol! I feel like I've read a lot of books with an animal on the cover, from Urban Fantasy reads to contemporary romance. There seems like there's a dog on a lot contemporary romances, haha!
ReplyDeleteRachel - I see animals used on covers a LOT for authors like Jill Shalivis, Debbie Macomber, etc. But those aren't really my go-to so I had to search hard for these.
DeleteI've read The Raven Boys and Mockingjay. I don't know that I'd have a ton of books with animals on the cover either.
ReplyDeleteLauren @ www.shootingstarsmag.net
Lauren - I think I went back thru almost 12 years on my Read shelf on GR just to find these 10!
DeleteWorfsong's cover is so good. I'll see if the audiobook is available on Scribd. Happy reading! My TTT https://readwithstefani.com/books-with-animals/
ReplyDeleteStefani - I'm actually reading Wolfsong right now. If you try the audio, I hope you enjoy it!
DeleteFuriously Happy is one of my favorite books and favorite covers.
ReplyDeleteAj - The Furiously Happy cover makes me laugh every time I see it. :)
DeleteGreat selection! I didn't have to go back quite as far as a decade, but I did have to take a deep dive into my books read to find 10.
ReplyDeleteAlison - Glad to hear that I'm not the only one who had to do a deep dive for this topic. :)
DeleteGoing back ten years was quite a search! This post made me realize the books I read rarely have animals on the cover.
ReplyDeleteLucy - I guess if I read fantasy or cozy mysteries I wouldn't have had that problem. Animals always seem to be on those covers. But indie romance... not so much. lol
DeleteI don't think I realized that Written In Red had an animal on the cover until I really looked at it! I read a lot of cozy mysteries so I don't think I even had to go back a month to find ten books with animals on the cover!
ReplyDeleteKatherine - I think it's an unwritten rule that every cozy mystery must have an animal on the cover. :)
DeleteYeah, I thought I was going to have to reach back to The Hunger Games, as well, for a minute. 😃 But I think you did great! Nice mix.
ReplyDeleteThanks Dedra! I can't believe how far I had to go back for these. lol
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