Here at OBS we are featuring Alice Sebold’s ‘The Lovely Bones’ for this months book club. So whats more appropriate for this months Book Covers Around The World.

“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections — sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent — that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events my death brought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous lifeless body had been my life” via wikipedia

United States and Canada

Both of these covers are really great! The on on the right is the original first edition and the other on the left is the newest edition based of the motion picture. I have them both listed here as the US and Canadian covers, but you can find both of these in many other countries and lots of different languages.

Dutch (Translation: ‘Full Sky’)

I really like this cover. I love how its half color, half sepia tone. And they show ‘Susie’ in the field, but also in the corner they have the sky and clouds.

Click HERE for the rest of the covers!

Which of the covers was your favorites? Least favorite?

Which cover encompassed the story the best?

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl are currently on the Beautiful Creatures Book Tour around the U.S. so I thought it would be an appropriate theme for the next Book Covers Around the World!

Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she’s struggling to conceal her power and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps, and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever.

Ethan Wate, who has been counting the months until he can escape from Gatlin, is haunted by dreams of a beautiful girl he has never met. When Lena moves into the town’s oldest and most infamous plantation, Ethan is inexplicably drawn to her and determined to uncover the connection between them.

In a town with no surprises, one secret could change everything. SOURCE

United States & Canada

Just to start it off, I thought this was an AMAZING cover when I first came upon it. The script was eye-opening and how it matched with the trees around it was stunning.

French (Translation: ‘Sixteen Moons’)

Out of all the covers this one was my favorite. I think it represents innocence of a person coming of age and not knowing what to expect (I think because it reminds me of the rain scene from ‘Disneys: Bambi’)

United Kingdom/Australia/New Zealand

This cover is similar to the US/Canada one with the difference being in the 3-D of the script. It really makes the title POP!

View the rest of the book covers here.

Which of the covers was your favorites? Least favorite?

Which cover encompassed the story the best?

Since ‘Percy Jackson and The Olympians: The Lightning Thief’ is released this week I thought it would be the perfect theme for Book Covers Around The World!

What if the gods of Olympuswere alive in the 21st Century? What if they still fell in love with mortals and had children who might become great heroes — like Theseus, Jason and Hercules?

What if you were one of those children?

Such is the discovery that launches twelve-year-old Percy Jackson on the most dangerous quest of his life. With the help of a satyr and a daughter of Athena, Percy must journey across the United States to catch a thief who has stolen the original weapon of mass destruction – Zeus’ master bolt. Along the way, he must face a host of mythological enemies determined to stop him. Most of all, he must come to terms with a father he has never known, and an Oracle that has warned him of betrayal by a friend. Source

United States

United Kingdom

This reissue of the book cover is really cool. It shows the more of the danger that Percy faces in the story.

French

German

This cover makes me laugh. It shows more of a characterization of the creatures that Percy faces.

China

View the rest of the book covers on our forum HERE.

Which are your favorite and least favorite covers and why?

Which ones do you feel represent the story the best and worst and why?

With all of the hype this week about the New Moon DVD Pre-Order, I decided to theme this Book Covers Around The World: New Moon-style!

The “star-crossed” lovers theme continues as Bella and Edward find themselves facing new obstacles, including a devastating separation, the mysterious appearance of dangerous wolves roaming the forest in Forks, a terrifying threat of revenge from a female vampire and a deliciously sinister encounter with Italy’s reigning royal family of vampires, the Volturi. Passionate, riveting, and full of surprising twists and turns, this vampire love saga is well on its way to literary immortality.

United States

United Kingdom

I don’t know what it is with the UK and Twilight Saga book covers. For ‘Twilight’ the super creepy wax-figure Bella (HERE) made the book seem more like a horror novel versus a love story YA novel.

Thailand (Translation: ‘Young Moon’)

This is a very sweet cover that is a more literal concept of New Moon with the moon surrounding Edward and Bella. Does anyone else think that Edward looks a bit like Robert Pattinson? Hmm..

Korea

Interesting, but creepy..

Indonesia (Translation: ‘Two Love’)

Beautiful cover!

View the rest of these covers on our forum HERE.

Which are your favorite and least favorite covers and why?

Which ones do you feel represent the story the best and worst and why?

White witch Rachel Morgan has been a bounty hunter for Inderland Security for the last three years and it’s been a constant bumbling battle for good assignments to prove her worth. She’s become bored and disillusioned with the job and she wants out. Problem is, retiring from I.S. means a swift and sure retirement from life. The I.S. doesn’t take kindly to broken contracts.

With the help of her pixy bodyguard and her living vampire roommate, she may just succeed. If she can quit getting caught. (From Amazon)

United States

German (Translation: “Blood Trail”)
This cover is very ‘eye-capturing’, no pun intended, and the translation makes this book sound very dark.

French (Translation: “Witch for the Scoffold”)
Very similar to the US version, but Rachel is portrayed in a more sexy way.

Italian (Translation: “Kiss of Midnight”)
I think this cover really encompasses the typical strong, Italian female.

View the rest of the book covers on our forum HERE.

Which are your favorite and least favorite covers and why?

Which ones do you feel represent the story the best and worst and why?

The Twilight Saga books are some of the most popular and most recognized young adult book at the moment. Let’s take a look at the covers of the first book, Twilight, around the world!

Brought to you by OBS staff mamber Katlyn

Isabella Swan decides to move from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father Charlie because her mother, Renée, has married Phil Dwyer, who travels a lot. The new girl in a small town, Bella attracts the attention of everyone around her, including Edward Cullen. Edward is stunningly attractive, and inhumanly beautiful, yet he is an outsider too. After a short disappearance from school he returns and talks to Bella, having seemingly forgotten their unfriendly first encounter.

On a morning like any other, Bella is nearly killed and Edward saves her. Afterwards she asks him how he got to her so fast from across the parking lot, but he replies that he was next to her. Knowing this to be false, Bella plunges deep into a world she never thought exited, in order to find the truth.

United States

The version of the Twilight book that is probably most recognizable, is the apple in hands (with Kimbra Hickey as the hand model). But after the release of the movie in 2008, the U.S. restocked their shelves with the movie version.

China

The original cover was used for one version in China while another is an anime version, with Edward and Bella drawn on the cover.

Czechoslovakia- Stmívání (“Dimming”)

I think this cover is really interesting because it captures the scarier angle of Twilight and Bella’s hesitation when she find out what Edward really is.

German
Bis zum Morgengrauen (“Until Dawn”)
or
Biss zum Morgengrauen (“Bite at Dawn”)

This one is interesting because it shows a painted picture of Bella which almost looks antique!

Japan

The Japanese version of Twilight was split up into three seperate books and I like the translation of all the Japenese covers. And they really got the “brooding” Edward face down pat!

“The Boy Whom I Love is a Vampire”           “Blood Tastes Sadness”

“The Vampire Family in the Darkness”

United Kingdom

Here is the front and back covers of the original UK version of Twilight. I think it is a different “take” on Bella, but overall not my favorite version.

View the rest of these covers on our forum HERE.

Which are your favorite and least favorite covers and why?

Which ones do you feel represent the story the best and worst and why?