The Friday Face-Off – Cities

The Friday Face-Off is hosted by Books by Proxy, where each week bloggers can showcase books with covers centered around a weekly theme.

“That great condenser of moral chaos, The City.”

[A cover which features a city.]

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve participated in this, but because book covers with cities on them are some of my favorites, I had to jump in this week. Although as I was looking for some ideas, I realized that I haven’t read that many books with cities on the cover. So I have a feeling my pick this week might be a popular one. I’ve chosen City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett:

U.S. edition: 2014 Broadway Books – UK edition: 2014 Jo Fletcher Books

Latvian edition: 2016 Prometejs – Czech edition: 2016 Host

German edition: 2017 Bastei Lübbe – Russian edition: 2017 ACT

I really love how different all of these covers are, but I think my favorite is still the U.S. cover:

Which one is your favorite?

Posted September 8, 2017 by Tammy in The Friday Face-Off / 12 Comments

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12 responses to “The Friday Face-Off – Cities

    • Tammy

      Yes, they are stairs. That cover isn’t my favorite, but I like that they tried to capture the “stairs going to nowhere” idea of the story.

  1. I’ve done the Cover Characteristic with Sugar and Snark before, but I love that there is another one of these types of posts going around. I’ll have to go check it out and get to participate with it. I always love looking through all my books to remember the covers.

    • Tammy

      I love doing anything with book covers, and now that you mention Cover Characteristic I’ll have to check it out, thanks!

  2. What an excellent choice for this topic – I realise I’ve said this everywhere I’ve visited this week. But frankly, I think we F-Facers deserve a real pat on the back as there has been a marvellous spread of books featuring cities and the covers have all been sooo pretty. While I do love your choice – my favourite is the Jo Fletcher cover – that detailing in the sky with the beautiful white buildings on the cityscape is just magical… Have you read the book? I don’t know this one.
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  3. Oh, definitely the US cover of City of Stairs — it looks utterly COOL and epic! Second choice would be the Czech cover — there’s something quirky about it I would want to know more about.

  4. todd

    Always fascinating to see the range of styles in the covers. I’d only seen the US version, and it’s my favorite of this batch.

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